Bronze Fine Art · 2025
Icy Fire Immersive Digital Art Installation
by Lampo Leong and Yanxiu Zhao
- Bronze A' Design Award 2025 in Fine Art
- CLIENT: Unversity of Macau Centre for Arts and Design
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 38,392
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About Icy Fire Immersive Digital Art Installation
In this immersive installation, the color palette transitions from cool to warm tones as the video progresses, representing the tragic impacts of global warming. However, the re-freezing of the text at the conclusion of the video provides a glimmer of hope, signifying the potential influence of humanity's collective efforts. This creative fusion of traditional ink painting with the concept of environmental consciousness elevates classical ink art into the realm of contemporary art, highlighting the enduring vitality of Chinese ink in the digital era.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Icy Fire Immersive Digital Art Installation is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Icy Fire Immersive Digital Art Installation is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Icy Fire Immersive Digital Art Installation splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- The color palette shifts from cool to warm tones, symbolizing the distressing effects of global warming, yet the re-freezing of the text at the end of the video offers a glimmer of hope, signifying the potential impact of our collective efforts. The unique fusion of traditional ink painting with the concept of environmental consciousness propels classical ink art into the domain of contemporary art, showcasing the vitality of Chinese ink in the digital era.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- This is an immersive installation with digital ink generative video art projection on one wall with acrylic mirrors on the other three walls, as well as ceiling and floor. The dimension of the installation is 5.3m x 3m x 4m.
- Tags
- Digital Video Art, Immersive Installation, Contemporary Ink, Interactive Installation
- Production Technology
- This work began by hand-painted ink paintings on rice-paper. Next, converted these physical artworks into digital images using a high-resolution scanner. Finally, TouchDesigner is used to create dynamic movements, blending traditional techniques with digital elements to achieve an immersive installation beyond classical painting.
- Design Challenge
- Transformation of classical and contemporary ink painting techniques into postmodern digital video art and immersive installation.
- Research
- The color palette shifts from cool to warm tones, symbolizing the alarming effects of global warming, yet the re-freezing of the text at the end of the video offers a glimmer of hope, signifying the potential impact of our collective efforts.
- Inspiration
- Scientists’ statistics and predictions indicate that global warming could lead to catastrophic consequences for humanity. This international environmental crisis necessitates collective action from individuals and countries worldwide. The immersive digital ink generated video art installation, through the distinctive texture of Chinese ink painting and the language of geometric and gestural abstraction, depicts the transformation of a glacier from ice to fire.
- Project Duration
- This project started in Macao in 2023 and finished in 2024. The work was exhibited in Macao Museum of Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Shenzhen Art Museum, and Glow Shenzhen 2024.
- Operation Flow
- Digital ink generative video art and immersive installation.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Lampo Leong, 2024.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Lampo Leong, 2024
Image #2: Lampo Leong, 2024
Image #3: Lampo Leong, 2024
Image #4: Lampo Leong, 2024
Image #5: Lampo Leong, 2024
