NIGHT\SHIFT: LUNA
Welcome to LUNA, an interactive audiovisual environment, by ELIPSESAZURE STUDIO
The culture of technology enables the super-human ability to share information from the reaches of outer space to the comfort of our living room.
Yet for every convenience granted by the accelerated growth of technological advancement we find ourselves reacquainted with a timeless sense of fear and paranoia, an unsettling suspicion that the creation of our greatest freedom may have in fact made us prisoners to our own invention.
Although technology has granted the ability to blur our perception of space and time, the global spread of technological ubiquity has crystallized our inability to escape the infinite continuum of space/time itself.
For all of the marvels of our innovation and achievement, have we only drifted deeper into an eternal dark of abstract absurdity?
Merging found footage, NASA Televised Transmissions of the Apollo 11 mission, 2001: A Space Odyssey and live-stream video capture, LUNA is an interactive audiovisual installation manifesting a liminal environment of technological fantasy, reality, beauty and horror.
LUNA was a part of the second annual NIGHT\SHIFT event which took place in Kitchener on Saturday November 1st. The project unfolded in ten intervals over a fifty-minute period, with lift-off occurring at the top of each hour, from 8pm until midnight.
Creators, left to right:
Ruby Bumrah, Joshua Cotie, Greg Osborn, Qinyu Lu, Paul McGough, Adam Schwartzentruber, Emeri Schweigert, Daniel Usas, James Anthony Usas
Qinyu Lu is a current Masters of Architecture student while James Anthony Usas and Adam Schwartzentruber are both alumni of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture.
More information about the project is available on the NIGHT\SHIFT website:
The community event was featured in The Cord:
http://community.thecord.ca/blog/2014/11/08/a-shift-in-the-culture/
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