Monday, February 9, 2009

Dans La Nuit, Des Images?

On the 30th of December I was walking past the Grand Palais in Paris and noticed this. The outside of the palace was shimmering with projected, moving text.

Inside I found what was billed by the French Ministry of Culture as "a selection of iconic works using light projection – photographs, films, videos, digital imagery and interactive installations from plasma screens to giant projections – will document the technological innovations that have become part of artistic creation over the past ten years."

The hall was filled with hundreds of people: families, lovers, art students, civil servants, infants; all gazing in amazement at this wonderful digital spectacle.