Es Devlin Takes Over Trafalgar Square For 2018 London Design Festival
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Award-winning artist and designer Es Devlin has created a new interactive sculpture “Please Feed the Lions” for 2018 London Design Festival. The landmark project, located in Trafalgar Square, incorporates machine learning, explores the parameters of desigEs Devlin Takes Over Trafalgar Square For 2018 London Design Festival
Award-winning artist and designer Es Devlin has created a new interactive sculpture “Please Feed the Lions” for 2018 London Design Festival. The landmark project, located in Trafalgar Square, incorporates machine learning, explores the parameters of design and AI, and follows a year-long collaboration with Google Arts & Culture.“Cast in 1867, the four monumental lions in Trafalgar Square have been sitting as silent British icons at the base of Nelson’s Column for the past 150 years. Overnight on Monday 17 September, a fifth fluorescent red lion will join the pride, facing northwards towards the National Gallery. The new lion will not be silent: it will ROAR. This lion roars poetry: and the words it roars will be up to the public to choose. Everyone is invited to ‘feed the lion’: and this lion only eats words,” reveals London Design Festival press release. “By daylight, the ever-evolving collective poem will be shown on LED embedded in the mouth of the new lion. By night, the poem will be projection-mapped over the lion and onto Nelson’s Column itself: a beacon of streaming text inviting others to join in and add their voice.” Es Devlin is renowned for her innovative projection-mapped sculptures that fuse music, light, and technology. Talking about her inspiration for the sculpture, she says: “The British design guru Sir John Sorrell nudged me as we walked through Trafalgar Square this time last year. He said: ‘Landseer never wanted those lions to look so passive: he proposed a much more animated stance, but Queen Victoria found it too shocking.’ The thought lodged in my mind. What if we could invest the lion with a diversely crowd-sourced collective poetic voice?”Ben Evans, London Design Festival Director, says: “Trafalgar Square is the center of London and one of the country’s major public spaces. Es Devlin is a leading stage and set designer brimming with ideas. The combination offers one of the highlights of the 2018 London Design Festival. “Please Feed The Lions” is a must-see.”“Please Feed the Lions” will be on view at Trafalgar Square, London, during the London Design Festival from September 18 to 23, 2018.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more