

This is the case of the InfoComm Fair, which will take place from October 23 to 25 in Bogotá.

In addition to the creative spaces, there are others where you can get to know and experiment. Where to see a video mapping projection in Colombia? Also in 2018 Idartes offered a video mapping workshop at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá –Mambo–, and private organizations have not been left behind either. In this festival, light was the protagonist and the proposals that use technology for scientific dissemination were highlighted.īogotá has been no stranger to this trend and that is why institutions in the art world have followed suit. Here are some samples of his projections:Īnd as for the initiatives to promote creation and exploration, the Explora Park of Medellín held in 2018 the Photosynthesis festival - the festival of light -, in which it brought together national and international proposals for interactive video installations, audiovisual, live cinema, 3D anaglyph video, video mapping and virtual reality. His projection 'Jaguara' was one of the highlights at the Burning man event in Nevada (United States). In the first case, for example, Leonardo Vilar is one of the main exponents of the videomapping contemporary, through the company Sonic Design, which is dedicated precisely to the technical development of high-level entertainment projects and is one of the most prominent in the sector. In Colombia there are several representatives who offer a variety of related products and, on the other hand, there are initiatives to promote artistic creation. Wolf Vostell was one of the pioneers of the video installation, was one of the first people to use electronic image as artistic material in the most recent context Dan Graham He has been experimenting with video art on sculptures for 5 decades Nam june paik He is a pioneer in the use and manipulation of video from television monitors, and Bill Viola became known for his works of altarpieces made up of images that make up narrations. Video servers and media server programs for show management have made mapping advance with realism, versatility, color, brightness and dynamism of images ”.īased on having the necessary hardware, capable of running and processing high quality visual effects, there are several programs ( software) specialized in video mapping as mad mapper, Millumin, Resolve Arena 4, Arkaos GrandVJ XT o Resolume, just to mention a few. They play and experiment with colors, shapes, holograms, creative lighting, virtual reality and augmented reality, which in any case they go hand in hand –Or are the support– of powerful software, projectors and high resolution screens.ĭiego Rosero, country manager of Epson Colombia, explains: “Technology is essential in the development of digital art, since today elements such as projectors with more than 50.000 lumens and LED technology have completely turned this artistic trend around. Nowadays we see projections of video sculptures, video environment, video installations and others, as well as other ways of projecting images on static or moving objects (water, smoke, people, animals, the same public, etc.). In addition to the surfaces, This experimentation has also resulted in innovations in artistic formats and concepts. In this case, the art of projecting large-format images on walls, irregular architecture constructions and objects has become a true plastic expression that covers all kinds of stages, including biennials, fairs, museum halls, theaters, stages in the streets and facilities in the form of video art, just to name a few examples. Artificial Intelligence, a support for creativity?.

