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Yvette Mattern | Laser Starship | DLectricity

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Laser Starship

Drawing on the sculptural qualities of a beam of laserlight, Laser Starship, a new artwork, projects high specification multiple rays of colorful laser light surrounding the center atrium glass globe of the C.H. Wright Museum of African American History. The artwork comments on elements of Afro futurism for a site specific laser ‘mothership’ in Detroit.

ARTIST: Yvette Mattern

VENUE: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren

 

Yvette Mattern – Global Rainbow UK

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Yvette Mattern - Global Rainbow UK

Global Rainbow

is a large scale, spectacular outdoor laser projection created by the artist, Yvette Mattern. It consists of seven parallel beams of high specification laser light, representing the spectrum of the traditional seven colours of the rainbow, and is designed to be projected across large open sites, particularly densely populated areas. With the projection, the artist intends to encompass geographical and social diversity in its reach and symbolise hope.

Presented by amino for the first time in the UK Global Rainbow opens the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad year in three regions of the UK: north east and north west England, and Northern Ireland.

Starting on leap day, 29 February, the UK premiere of this stunning artwork takes place over five nights against the backdrop of the North Tyneside coastline.

From 8 March, International Women’s Day, the rainbow is being projected over the city of Preston for four nights. Here, it launches We Play Challenge, the north west’s Cultural Olympiad public participation programme. It is one of the first events in the Preston Guild festival. Dating back to 1179, this is England’s oldest festival and takes place once every 20 years.

Starting on 14 March and ending on St Patrick’s Day, 17 March, the rainbow is being projected from the base of the landmark site of Scrabo Tower. For four nights, it passes over Newtownards, from where it follows the picturesque eastern shore of Strangford Lough and on, over the Ards Peninsula

Global Rainbow was initially created for projection in New York City on 19 January 2009 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) where it was projected from the top of a Wall Street skyscraper in downtown Manhattan. The beams extended from Brooklyn Bridge to the east and the Hudson River to the west, passing over Ground Zero. Subsequently, it has been shown in Berlin, Toulouse, Utrecht and Nantes.

Yvette Mattern is a New York and Berlin based visual artist whose work has an emphasis on video and film, which frequently intersects performance, public art and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited in Berlin, Vienna, Dakar, New York, Venice, Rome, Chicago and Amsterdam.

yvettemattern.com

Global Rainbow is produced in the UK by amino, a contemporary arts production agency based in Newcastle upon Tyne.

amino.org.uk

The lasers used to create Global Rainbow were built and are operated by Lightwave International, one of the world’s leading laser light show companies, who are based in Pittsburgh, USA.

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GLOBAL RAINBOW announcement for Preston Guild and Cultural Olympiad

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    Global Rainbow

    08 Mar 2012 18:00 to 12 Mar 2012 23:00

    Global Rainbow – The year of the Games is here! Connect to London 2012 and the Cultural Olympiad in the North West.

    Yvette Mattern’s Global Rainbow opens the Olympic year projecting the spectrum of the seven colours of the rainbow from Preston across Lancashire to launch WE PLAY Challenge – the North West’s public participation campaign for London 2012 and the Cultural Olympiad. Yvette Mattern’s Global Rainbow is a spectacular large-scale outdoor laser projection artwork consisting of the seven colours of the rainbow which will span Preston across Lancashire from 8 – 12 March as part of the Cultural Olympiad programme. The people of Preston, Lancashire and the North West will be invited to sign up to WE PLAY – a once in a life time opportunity to make your mark on London 2012. Be part of a landmark installation and take an Olympic inspired journey across the region in 2012, culminating in the City of Preston over the closing weekend of the Paralympic Games.
    Produced together with Amino UK and Lightwave Laser
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Lightwave International rocks!

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Lightwave International produced the lasers for the Global Rainbow in Nantes.

Lightwave will continue to present the Global Rainbow with me on upcoming shows we are developing for 2012 in the UK, Ukraine and California.

Above is a video of their current collaboration with Jane’s Addiction and below a short teaser of the laser work for Watch the Throne, JayZ and Kanye West tour.

George Dodworth, founder of Lightwave is creating some

brilliant 3D lasers installations.  Great to work with them.