GLoW: Illuminating Innovation: Impact Generation & Evidence Gathering

Professor Sarah Atkinson, Professor Mark Mulligan, Professor Zoran Cvetkovic, King’s Digital Lab, King’s Culture, Rebecca Smith (Urban Projections), St Mary le Strand

The GLoW: Illuminating Innovation: Impact Generation & Evidence Gathering initiative saw Professor Sarah Atkinson (Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries) collaborate with artist Urban Projections (Rebecca Smith), Mark Mulligan (Department of Geography), Zoran Cvetkovic (Department of Engineering), King’s Culture and King’s Digital Lab. They worked jointly on a project focused on hosting and examining the impact of a digital art installation held in St Mary le Strand church.

The GLoW: Illuminating Innovation exhibition is an important outcome of the larger GLoW3 project, an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) fellowship which seeks to foreground and interrogate art and screen-based media interacting with Web 3.0 technologies created by women, non-binary and trans people. The GLoW: Illuminating Innovation exhibition included a digital installation designed by Rebecca named ‘Second Nature’.

The piece, composed of volumetric lighting and immersive audio designed to complement the physical environment of the church, drew upon real-time environmental data from sensor stations on the Strand Aldwych. It aimed to create an exquisite and abstract performance inspired by natural systems and sought to critically engage with contemporary issues, including climate change and the democratisation of data. The installation proved very popular, attracting approximately 900 attendees over the three-day exhibition period.

For full details of the project, please see the PDF case study below.

GLoW Illuminating Innovation: Impact Generation & Evidence Gathering – PDF Case Study