{"id":2197,"date":"2009-02-09T15:10:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T05:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2009-02-09T15:10:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T05:10:37","slug":"constellation-at-covent-garden-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/constellation-at-covent-garden-london\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Constellation&#8221; at Covent Garden, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/dsc_0086web1s.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dsc_0086web1s\" width=\"500\" height=\"752\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2941\" \/>\n\n<h4>TARMLED SHINES BRIGHT AT COVENT GARDEN IN LONDON<\/h4>\n\n<p><em>Constellation<\/em><br \/>\nA work by United Visual Artists Ltd<\/p>\n\n<p>UVA present  their latest responsive installation commissioned by Covent Garden as part of their Delight Christmas campaign this year. \u201cConstellation\u201c is a light-based sculpture which has been designed especially for the Covent Garden Market Halls.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p>TARMLED GmbH &amp; Co. KG of Bochum, Germany supplied a total of 578, 2m long, double-sided, LED-strips, and 37 DPDUs (Data Power Distribution Units), to power the installation in the English capital that has become the talk of the town after just a few days of operation. In just 10 weeks TARMLED\u2019s engineers developed double-sided, video-compatible LED-strips based on it&#8217;s TARMLED STRIP 25-modules that were premiered at the &#8220;PLASA 2008&#8221; show. The LED strips were incorporated into polycarbonate tubes coated with a semitransparent reflective film, in accordance with UVA&#8217;s design. Together with 37 customised TARMLED DPDU&#8217;s, the tubes are allowed to hang elegantly in the space, as the DPDU&#8217;s allow for cable runs of maximum 20m from the fixture using a single CAT5e cable carrying data and power to each fixture. The 25mm pixel spacing of the TARMLED STRIP and UVA\u2019s regular grid layout of the tubes allow for spectacular 3D-displays of voluminous, complex, geometric patterns and effects. The system is entirely driven by UVA&#8217;s d3 production system.<\/p>\n\n<p>Technical details:<\/p>\n\n<p>1156 x 2m strips of TARMLED STRIP 25<br \/>\n37 x TARMLED DPDUs customised for UVA<br \/>\n37 x Enttec Datagate<br \/>\n40 x Chromaflood 200<br \/>\n24 x SGM Palco 3<br \/>\n11.8km CAT5e cable<br \/>\n1.2km polycarbonate tube<br \/>\n135sqm semi-translucent mirror silver film<br \/>\n1.4km steel wire<br \/>\n92.480 LEDS<br \/>\n138,720 channels of DMX<br \/>\n1 x d3 production controller<\/p>\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/uva_cg_-9059.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"uva_cg_-9059\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2944\" \/>\n\n<p>Constellation is a 3-dimensional volumetric lighting installation. It is the first of its kind in the world and features 600 custom-made LED tubes elegantly encased in a one-way mirror film. Constellation was also individually controllable using a custom-designed control panel, giving the installation an intimate connection with the public. During the day it is a beautiful grid of chromed columns hanging elegantly in the space. At night it transforms into a 3-dimensional lighting display. Constellation was designed especially for the indoors of Covent Garden Market Halls. Launched as the flagship piece of the winter season program at Covent Garden 2008.<\/p>\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/jmp_covent_lights_081s.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jmp_covent_lights_081s\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2942\" \/>\n\n<p>by\/via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uva.co.uk\/archives\/100\">United Visual Artists<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarmled.com\/index.php\">Tarmled<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TARMLED SHINES BRIGHT AT COVENT GARDEN IN LONDON Constellation A work by United Visual Artists Ltd UVA present their latest responsive installation commissioned by Covent Garden as part of their Delight Christmas campaign this year. \u201cConstellation\u201c is a light-based sculpture which has been designed especially for the Covent Garden Market Halls.","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}