LedsC4 is taking part once again in the Llum BCN light festival, an extensive laboratory of nightscapes where a range of artistic disciplines converge, creating projects in the urban space through light. The festival, which enjoys a prestige that places it among the world’s most famous light art events, such as those in Eindhoven, Prague and Lyon, returns this year to the streets and squares of the Poblenou district.
As part of its Off Llum programme, the BAU school will exhibit Wood Wide Web, a collective work promoted by Barcelona-based company ProtoPixel in collaboration with students at BAU University Centre for Arts and Design of Barcelona and with the lighting designer team of lighting company LedsC4.
Wood Wide Web
The installation transmits a visual representation of how these living beings connect their roots and, via biochemical and electrical signals, are able to feed, look after themselves and even warn each other about possible threats. In the words of the project’s artists themselves: “When we walk through woodland, we are not aware that one of the most brilliant natural mysteries lies concealed beneath our feet; a hidden world that we can’t see, but which is of crucial importance for the health of living woodland beings and their survival.”
Wood Wide Web is a light installation that simulates the network of underground connections that allow trees, funghi and bacteria to communicate with each other. The installation transmits a visual representation of how these living beings connect their roots and, via biochemical and electrical signals, are able to feed, look after themselves and even warn each other about possible threats.
The collective of artists composed of BAU alumni and students, conclude: “Trees, fungi and bacteria may not have a brain like the one we humans have, but they don’t need it, since together they form a large brain in itself. We have built an artificial World Wide Web to streamline communication, but nature has been working with its own for years.”
Llum BCN Signage Project, LedsC4 Design
For the second year running, LedsC4 is in charge of carrying out the Llum BCN signage project. The project is made up of 14 large light sculptures that were made to measure for the festival and are strategically placed throughout the Poblenou district in Barcelona, the perfect setting for the Festival of Lights.
The main design element of each signage sculpture is a circle: a simple expression that symbolises the concept of a place, a meeting point. The rings with built-in LED strips were designed by the special project department at LedsC4. They are all 1.5 metres in diameter and installed on minimalist structures at a height of 3 metres.
Each ring will be lit up in one of two basic and easily distinguishable colours: red and blue. Red will distinguish the different installations of the festival; and blue will distinguish the rings located inside the DHUB (Design Hub of Barcelona, in Plaza de les Glories).
LedsC4 has therefore provided one of the most important aspects for a festival of this type and size, which attracted more than one hundred thousand visitors last time it was held.
