A new digital art display at Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands proposes to immerse visitors in a sea of light. Containing several different levels of participation, as impressive as the digital display is, it depends on something simple to make it really come to life: humans.
People who visit the display at Marina Bay Sands are encouraged to use the location’s Wi-Fi or use a QR code to participate in the first interactive level. Once they’re connected with the display, participants can hang festive, digital ornaments with their smartphones on the display. They also have the ability to set off an appropriately festive year-end fireworks display — thanks to an augmented virtual reality experience.
For a small fee, visitors can immerse themselves even more fully in the digital experience. After paying, people have the ability to walk out on a specially designed floor. The floor has been rigged with bright LED lights that have been programmed to respond to pressure, meaning that they change colors and react in other ways as the person moves across the floor. In fact, based on how the person is comporting themselves, the lights change to reflect everything from fish swimming in a digital ocean to bright, LED flowers blossoming at every soft touch. Swirling pinks, greens, and blues dance around, making the display almost as fun to watch as it is to participate in.
The digital installation itself was designed and executed by a Japanese group of digital artists that was also behind a recent ArtScience Museum display. One of the members of the group said he hoped that the display helped break down not only the barriers that exist between people and art, but the barriers that separate people from one another and keep them from getting to know and understand one another.
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To learn more about the digital art display at Marina Bay Sands, including pictures of part of the light show, go to http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/new-digital-art-exhibit-adds-sparkle-to-mbs.