Woods Bagot architects Nicolas Thioulouse and Kim Nguyen Ngoc have designed a light installation, Cloudscape as part of the Vivid Sydney festival.The installation will be one of 50 interactive and immersive light art sculptures which will be on show around The Rocks, Sydney Opera House and Circular Quay during Vivid Sydney which is the largest light and music festival in the southern hemisphere.The artists impression describes the installation as a silver cloud that reflects weather through a canopy- beneath which a 'new sky' is created by people who cast shadows over the surface of hundreds of silver Mylar balloons."Cloudscape talks to our primal fears and fascination with clouds and thunderstorms. Our light installation uses interactive architecture as a social media. It creates the conditions for new and forgotten types of relationships between people, a sense of communion with climatic elements, by using electronic, photonic and spatial constructions." said Kim Nguyen Ngoc, Design Leader at Woods Bagot.Senior Associate Nicolas Thioulouse says the clouds will use light and shade and will be constantly changing."As children we look for anthromorphic forms in the clouds; making sense of the universe by relating to our sense of self. In this installation people can see their own reflection in the cloud and the ever changing aspect of the sky will transform their own reflection during the day and create interaction of light at night," said Woods Bagot Senior Associate Nicolas Thioulouse. Vivid Sydney will run for 17 days from the 25th of May until the 11th of June 2012
Image courtesy of Vivid Sydney
