Client/cliente: Monumedia/Franz Cerami
Job/lavoro: montaggio/post produzione

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/franzcerami/sets/72157622608801554/

link video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI5QeWJPrm0

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Monumedia Borgo Light & Vision 2009
After the 1997 to 1999 success, within the "Creativity Journey ,"(project of the Region of Campania Tourist Department), the Monumedia Festival returns, the event which, since its creation,proposed to valorize cultural and historical sites in Naples,assembling digital innovation, design and Cultural Heritage.Monumedia is the annual appointment with the multimedia production concerning Art and Culture, which seeks to combine Digital Innovation, Design and Cultural Heritage. The festival is animated by the use of lights and moving images applied to cultural heritage through installations, interactive light gardens , projections of three-dimensional images on “Castel dell'Ovo”, light installations created by Internet, lunar atmospheres inspired by lightning revisiting of satellite dishes. The 2009 edition of the Festival Monumedia - Borgo Light & Vision intends to propose a rereading of “Castel dell'Ovo” and the whole “Borgo Marinari a Santa Lucia”; this place is from centuries a symbol of Naples and Monumedia wants to come back with a vision enhancing the beauty and uniqueness. Protagonists of the entire event will be the technology, light projections and wall digital images, real three-dimensional sculptures, beautiful architecture in motion. The event, bring held from October 20th to November 6th, is promoted by the “Regional Direction of the Minister of Cultural Heritage”and realized with the partnership of the Consortium “Antico Borgo Marinari” . The art director will be Franz Cerami – Digital Artist – who is the ideator as well. For this edition of “Borgo Screen”, there will be three artworks of Video Mapping realized by Giorgio Rinolfi – Digital Artist (October 22nd), by Franz Cerami (October 23rd) and by Till Nowak – Digital Artist (October 25th), also visible from a distance between 9 pm and 11 pm : old charms of history and legend will be blended with bright and engaging dialogues on the artist’s lit masterpieces.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/franzcerami/sets/72157623976440234/

link video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oshQ5qRlh2w

Light your blue is the new installation by Franz Cerami, that has been presented for the first time at Naples during the event Monumedia Light & Vision. The installation has been placed on the cliff in front of Castel dell’Ovo, in Naples, from the 21th untill the 25th of october 2009. The shade Of blue of the installation has been determined everyday by the choice made by users of the site www.lightyourblue.com. Blue is the colour of the sea, the colour of the sky, the colour of soul. ?Everyone has his own blue. ? Light Your Blue intercepts these emotions, these pictures, making everyone participate with his own blue to create a collective blue, a global blue. The application permits the lighting system to work in total automation,without the intervention of an human operator. The system is based on a Apple Macintosh computer with a custom software created specifically for this installation. The software switches on the computer at 9.00pm, providing also to turn on the light system with a power interface. Next, the "Light Your Blue" site is contacted through the Internet retrieving the selected tone of blue, and this value is transmitted to a light console through a Ethernet link. The console reads the value and calls one of several light scenes programmed in its memory, one for every tone of blue. At last, at 11.00pm, the software switches off the computer and the light system. Derrick de Kerkhove said, in connection with Light Your Blue, that is a collective and interactive art work, a global art work. This is not to illuminate an object, but to evoke its meaning, to communicate with this object.