{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Street Art"],"cover":{},"credit":"","date":"2010-03-02T12:24:13Z","description":"The 2010 Winter Olympics are over, but I recently found a very interesting light art project which took place in Vancouver for the last weeks: “Vectorial Elevation”!","html":"\u003cp\u003eI don’t know whether you watched regularly the 2010 Winter Olympics - I do not. For this reason, I don’t realized that great light art spectacle:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"external-video\" aria-label=\"YouTube video\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVideo / YouTube\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe YouTube player loads only when you choose to load it; YouTube then receives your connection information.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vskx5X6swQg\" rel=\"noreferrer\"\u003eWatch on YouTube\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cbutton type=\"button\" data-video-src=\"https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/vskx5X6swQg\" data-video-title=\"YouTube video referenced by Light Art: Too Dark in Vancouver?\" hidden\u003eLoad YouTube player\u003c/button\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"video-player\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003c/section\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Vectorial Elevation” was a light art project in Vancouver, which allowed people around the world to light up the sky over the former Olympic Games city with their own light shows. This was made possible by using 20 robotic searchlights located along English Bay.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI was really impressed but also a bit unhappy when I read the article about that project today, because I missed to participate. Fortunately every light design was recorded by 4 project webcams with a 15 km visibility radius.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe idea behind “Vectorial Elevation” was to \u003cem\u003e“blend the virtual space of the Internet with one of the most emblematic public spaces in Vancouver”\u003c/em\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVia \u003ca href=\"http://weburbanist.com/2010/02/27/vectorial-elevation-vancouver-telerobotic-art-installation/\"\u003eweburbanist.com\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\nI don’t know whether you watched regularly the 2010 Winter Olympics - I do not. For this reason, I don’t realized that great light art spectacle:\n\n[Video on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vskx5X6swQg)\n\n\n“Vectorial Elevation” was a light art project in Vancouver, which allowed people around the world to light up the sky over the former Olympic Games city with their own light shows. This was made possible by using 20 robotic searchlights located along English Bay.\n\nI was really impressed but also a bit unhappy when I read the article about that project today, because I missed to participate. Fortunately every light design was recorded by 4 project webcams with a 15 km visibility radius.\n\nThe idea behind “Vectorial Elevation” was to *“blend the virtual space of the Internet with one of the most emblematic public spaces in Vancouver”*.\n\nVia [weburbanist.com](http://weburbanist.com/2010/02/27/vectorial-elevation-vancouver-telerobotic-art-installation/).\n","tags":["Public Art","Light Art","Graffiti America"],"title":"Light Art: Too Dark in Vancouver?","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/light-art-in-vancouver/"}