Interactive Lightinstallation and Videomapping “Aurora Orientalis” at the Ritz Carlton, Bahrain

Aurora Borealis – Aurora Australis – Aurora Orientalis

The bright dancing lights of the aurora are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth‘s atmosphere.Auroral displays appear in many colours although pale green and pink are the most common. Shades of red, yellow, green, blue, and violet have been reported. The lights appear in many forms from patches or scattered clouds of light to streamers, arcs, rippling curtains or shooting rays that light up the sky with an eerie glow.
With this light installation “AURORA ORIENTALIS” we attempt to create a similar effect and due Bahrain´s geographical location in the east…

…WE CALL IT “AURORA ORIENTALIS”

Thousands of interactive light threads illuminated by thousands of tiny LED lights melt into a misty and mysteriously illuminated surface just like the Aurora Australis, the southern lights in the atmosphere.
This surface of light softly pulsates in intensity and colours and swirls as if it would be somehow alive. Then a car is passing. The Light detects it and creates a light pulse that escorts the car as if by magic up to the main entrance.

Hundreds of interactively Illuminated fibreglass sticks form the extension of the entrance in a swivelling path. The guest walks through and is escorted by the light. The hotel recognises the arrival or departure of the guest and gives him a warm welcome or farewell. Powerful projectors paint an Eastern Light to the building which is also constantly changing structure, colours and intensity.

The island forms the closure of “Aurora Orientalis”. Water is pumped out of the sea and sprayed 70 meters wide and 30 meters high into the air where it atomizes into millions of microscopic droplets. Powerful beams of light capture the droplets and convert them again into a misty and mystical cloud of light that constantly moves and pulsates. A very powerful and constantly changing “Aurora Orientalis” emerges that will stun and amaze the viewer.

ProjectRitz Carlton, Bahrain - Multimedia light art installation at the Ritz Carlton Bahrain (idea, art and concept)