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  • Festival of Light and shadow 2015

    Festival of Light and shadow 2015

    Festival of light and shadow with the tagline Light and shadow in the art and science not only brightened the historic center of Banská Bystrica city, but also its surroundings. Civic associations Cultural Slovakia and TRAKT in collaboration with partners, prepared the deadline on 11 and 12 December 2015 always after dark light show. Spectators could himself for two nights on a 12 selected locations and see them on 19 unique projects. Section SHADOW roofed and astronomers young visual artists in the section LIGHT create multimedia works. These works for the audience discovered and revived unconventional urban space, surfaces and facades.

    City Tower came into the optical-visual movement in videomappingovom project moves of a rook and the next day except the tower came to life with light and shadow and other buildings on SNP Square. The town got a few moments the new color light color. Hall became the venue for the exhibition and workshop mystery of light 3D scanning, which was capacity constraints. Location around Barbakan introduced light and video mapping projects (Falling flakes, traditionally under Urpínom a city 760 years) and interactive digital projects (Light graffiti and Reindeer tandem). The project light graffiti viewers got themselves into the role of creator and creative by light sensors and spray painted the facade of the building of the former elementary school. Rays of light lines pointed to significant historic buildings, gradually fell into disrepair. A few meters further impressed the children and youth project reindeer sledding, when given the opportunity to control digital reindeer harness. Interactive game created specifically direct the whole wall Barbakan. Moreover, anyone who this unusual interactive experience to try, was awarded a driving license in your name. Of course it was not a regular driver’s license, driver’s license but the reindeer harness. Drive not only children but also adults and be entertained. In a few hours, hundreds of distributed driver’s license. Powerful visual experience with a story about the history of flying brought large-sized animated Let videomapping and space on the facade of the Museum of SNP. Automapping ran next door – light show on the hood of a new car model Opel Astra (light and shade with the new Astra). The museum, which was “the epicenter” section shadow, visitors looked up a rich film series and accompanying programs such as search light and dark, dark side of light, physical workshop for children. From the heart of the monument SNP led the night sky still light two laser beams (Nativity). Powerful laser beams are hmírili over the city and from the space Ministry of dotvárali fun and so together with folk-dance projects Lucky overall atmosphere. Europa Busines Center to visually interested in the spectacle of light and LED light show, and a bit further at the building SLOS conducted Illusions of light. Area around SC Europa turned into a place luminographic workshops for the general public. Photos working with light and slow shutter speed is always at the end of the workshop “posting” on a social networking site where they can find active visitors. In addition luminography on the facade of the building it could be seen in regular hour interval videomapping digital, metaphorical ingenuity displayed “path of light” across history. Visual symbols portrayed in the present back to the beginning (Big Bang) and back through our history until today’s modern “TV” company. The entire message can be viewed as awareness everywhere the presence and importance of light in its various forms whether as sunshine, space heaters, or IT technologies that surround us.

    Festival its first year (2015) opens the tradition of this unique multi-genre event in the middle of Slovakia. This is a unique authorial concept that organizers Dagmar Rajčanová, Vlado Benko, Lukas Matejka, Pavol Rapavý, Tomas Rakonczai, Stefan Oliš and Kristina Benková will seek to maintain and further develop his artistic ambitions and possibilities in order to prepare for residents and visitors to IV 2016 unusual visual experiences.

  • Santa Claus sleigh

    Santa Claus sleigh

    Christmas interactive projection for children, prepared a civic association composed TRAKT Lukas Matejka, Pavol Soukal and Denis Matus for the Christmas market in 2014 on Peace Square in Trenčín. Large-scale digital signage on city tower got playful shape in the form of an interactive steering wheel that was made at University Tomas Bata in Zlín at the Studio of Industrial Design (Jakub Hrdina and Ondrej Puchta). With a lightweight wheel that resembled a real steering wheel of a car children can “drive” reindeer harness. Christmas Market called “magic of Christmas under the castle” during the 20 and 21 December 2014 turned into a crowd of children who enjoyed the unusual Christmas experience in the public space of Trenčín. About how it really looked, it will learn in the next video.

  • Millenium projection mapping

    Millenium projection mapping

    Two animated characters Kamil and Klara detonated a few minutes before midnight at the turn of 2013 and 2014 an unconventional visual and acoustic “projection mapping fireworks.” Millenium mapping project shows the current new media art in public space. Videomapping to cooperate musician and a number of creative artists, all under the supervision of copyright Lukáš Matejka (TRAKT).

    At Theater Square in the city center Martin left the audiovisual certainly a game that was started a few seconds before midnight on the audience nice experience. After the outbreak of the New Year celebrations are both complementary digital signage with real fireworks around the square. Millen glass building (construction year 2003) was an interesting movie screen, aquariums, technocratic room that is visually slightly collapsed.

     

     

     

     

  • Videomapping in Gelnica

    Videomapping in Gelnica

    On Friday, September 25, 2015, could visitors of Miners Day event see the first video mapping carried out in the eastern Slovakia town Gelnica. During rainy weather got together dozens of people to see this unconventional project designed for public space. The projection was located on historic dominant – symbol of the city – the tower of the former town hall.

    Videomapping was prepared by TRAKT ( Pavol Soukal ) in cooperation with Zapadnutý KÚT ( Ľubomír Slovinský). Video of the entire video mapping can be found below.

  • About the Valentine, the water man

    About the Valentine, the water man

    The dominant od the Stur´s Square is the statue of sprite – water man Valentine. He was part of the performance of itinerant theater in the story of love and heroism. The spectators from Trenčín and suburban, who were curious about this story, also joined this performance. Valentine was the great presenter and except the horses, mapping (projection on buildings) or water world you could see also water and air acrobatics, fire show and other attractive performances of this water man.  He won the hearts of Trenčín citizens because of his heroic act. 
     
    The projection on the city´s tower prepared creative trio of digital artists – Lukáš Matejka, Matej Mazák and Pavol Soukal (members of TRAKT).

  • Illumination of Advent

    Illumination of Advent

    For the December event ‘Magic of Christmas in Trenčín artists Lukas Matejka (TRAKT) and Pavol Soukal created visual mapping projections, particular for a symbol of Trenčín – City Tower. White facade of a historic building provides an ideal projection screen for theirs mapping. The diversity of structure filled artists by advent Christmas motives. The project titled “Illuminations Advent” had its premiere last advent weekend – 21th December 2013 (Saturday) and then a day later reprise 22th December 2013 (Sunday). For small and big ones and all visitors of urban Christmas markets of Trenčin, in the location of Mierove Namestie, TRAKT again prepared unique visual show, which made yet again a pleasant Christmas atmosphere.

  • Beamvertising, Divadelna Nitra

    Beamvertising, Divadelna Nitra

    TRAKT participated at the International Theatre Festival Nitra 2013 with the project Beamvertising forthright in the streets of Nitra. Projections especially prepared for this festival, have attracted residents of Nitra mainly in the pedestrian area, as well as in a Klokočina neighbourhood.  

    Projections from a moving vehicle was possible to see as a part of  the additional program of the festival 27th September 2013 (Friday evening) and also 28th September 2013  during  the White Night.

     

  • Digital city

    Digital city

    We decided to organize project Digital City because of the need to bring the trends of contemporary fine art among young people in Trencin. This idea is also identic with the main goal of Ofca platform. Ofca should cover similar activities. The intention of Ofca is to zoom high art to laic audience and to show him, that the art is also fun and it is possible to percept it in an easy way.

    The conception of project is made from two main issues. “Interactive game”, which is projected on three stations at predetermined time and the second issue “beamvertising” – it is movable projection made from a moving car. First station was at Zilina Street in Trencin / Sihot. There was also the beginning of whole project on 13.9.2013 at 19:00. Then the project continued by beamvertising across the streets of suburban and there were motives like birds, train, walking chicken projected from the car. Another station was Peace Square. The next day began projection on the housing estate Juh at Kijevska Street. It attracted many children, young people, but also elders. After beamvertising continued in Dubnica nad Vahom, where was the end of project around midnight.

    Despite the fact that the project was realised without any great publicity, it attracted many people. The target group of youth literally fulfilled the expectations and joined the program. To hold the steering wheel in your hand and to drive a car on a big projection at the wall of apartment block – it does not come every day! Everybody, who held the steering wheel for a while felt the adrenaline from the ride. The intention was to make young generation to recognize the forms of unconventional forms of arts and accepted them as an alternative to pop culture and consumerism. And this intention was fulfilled. It set the place for other similar projects, which should build on the Digital City.

    The organisation of this project was covered by Stefan Olis and Lukas Matejka. They are also founders of the Ofca idea and they integrated to this project very clever, fresh graduates of SUS Trencin Pavel Soukal and Adam Siekel, who created the beamvertising visuals and Pavol Soukal creaeted also interactive game, which was projected at individual stations. The documentation was covered by the members of project and Denis Matus. Slovak press agency TASR and television were also interested in and television also made interview with us about the project.  

    Project Digital City brought new wave of unexpected experiences – for public it was number of positive responses and gradually began to uncover the brand Ofca. On the other hand, the great cooperation of TRAKT´s members with young people who have the potential was proved. The project was supported financially by Trencin and Foundation O2.

  • Skyway

    Skyway

    Lighting Up the Wonders of the Elements. In its third edition, SKYWAY ’11 draws the analogy between the richness of the experience that light based art delivers and wonders of the world opened up through our understanding of the Elements of the Universe. The classical four elements – Earth, Water, Air, and Fire – are common to many philosophical traditions around the world and form powerful metaphors of forces fundamental to life on Earth. In the imagination of culture, where pagan traces never are totally dissolved, these elements refer to ancient beliefs inspired by the observation of natural phenomena. Already in Babylonian mythology four cosmic elements are described: sea, earth, sky, wind…

    In Western classical thought, there has been a strong conviction of the existence of four elements Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. A fifth element is at times added. The Greeks called it Aether. Following Aristotle’s reasoning that fire, earth, air, and water were earthly and did not provide an exact explanation for all phenomenon happening in the heavenly regions. The stars cannot be made out of any of the four elements and must therefore be made of a different, unchangeable, heavenly substance. So it is this Aether idea that links us to the Cosmos. This is a vision and a quest that is universal and shared by distant civilizations, from India to China, Japan, Latin America. For contemporary scientific community Aether serves as a touchstone for discussions and it can also be an inspiring metaphor for cultural production. The relationship with more scientifically founded categories can be probed deeper. Even today, earth, water, air, and fire are everyday symbols for the states of matter such as solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. While empirical Science has arrived at new conceptions, in the field of Belief or in certain Physics tendencies these elements are still important today as a poignant metaphor for the oneness of everything. SKYWAY’s 2011 artistic programme once again celebrates Human imagination in a world which is becoming more and more infinite but also more and more proximate to our reasoning, by means of contemporary science, namely astronomy, astrophysics, astrobiology. Since the stars are closer and in reaching for them again we want to understand also our own fundamental ‘elements’ – forces and interactions ruling inside us. And of course that even if the ‘five elements world’ is far from current knowledge about the Universe, still it can be a great contribution to an open discussion about our role in this ‘cold place’ we used to call Cosmos. Bringing together the ideas of Light Art and the languages of Science and Fiction, Poetics and Physics, SKYWAY ‘11 opens up a stage filled with vivid emotions and joy in which the city of Torun becomes the central performer. In the year, in which our city celebrates the 600. Anniversary of the Thorn Peace Treaty –, the wondrous dynamics of the whole Universe is envisaged during six days of contact with ancient cultural anachronisms – inspired by reflections by Parmenides, Heraclitus and Aristotle –, and their actual historically contemporary counterparts, clearly informed by technoscientific principles.

    For the visitor, it is a chance to contact with traditional culture – from Myth to proto-science – and have a glimpse at some of the most provocative and innovatory possibilities of the more and more extensively shared cultures of science and art. The event explores the ways to contact the basic ‘alphabet’ of the Universe. It allows a complex interactions with each artwork in Festival which inscribes itself in the urban and social context. The artworks won’t be related only with fundamental aspects of the life and identity of the City of Torun, but will allow every visitor a very personal experience. Since its inception, SKYWAY has drawn on and highlighted the wealth of the history and synergies in the relationship between art and the science of astronomy, also myth, history and heritage. Its aim has been to bring through art a deeper understanding of the passion and the dreams that drive the human quest for knowledge and self-expression. The Elements metaphor recaptures the sense of this Festival for Torun – and brings it to a higher level of value. Thus, SKYWAY once again, and now with even more will to follow the possibilities of imagination, from strictly astronomical or physics thematic to what is broadly understood as urban culture. By these means, we use the richness of potential of SKYWAY’without losing its science&art core.

  • Christmas illumination of town tower

    Christmas illumination of town tower

    Last weekend before Christmas TRAKT with City of Trencin prepared this project for citzens. They could see large scale projection – mapping on the town tower from the main square. Author concept with christmas themes was prepared by Lukáš Matejka, Adam Siekel and Pavol Soukal. People of all generation were coming to see this extraordinary event. The aim of the project was to connect young talented students with wide public of the city and to emphasise needs for integration of their work into public space.