Name: Media Facade, La Vitrine
Brand: Moment Factory
Availability: InStock

A PERMANENT INTERACTIVE LED CREATION

Custom Canada

2012 | Montreal

A multimedia accentuation of the building's already impressive architectural features.

La Vitrine Culturelle is located in the heart of Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles theatre district, an area known as a showcase for pioneering uses of multimedia technologies. After winning several awards for its interactive LED facade at the nearby Place-des-Arts, in 2012 La Vitrine once again asked Moment Factory to push the boundaries of multimedia environments for their new and highly-visible location at the corner of Saint-Laurent and Sainte-Catherine. The installation would integrate multimedia on both the façade and interior of the building to establish La Vitrine as both a beacon and a hub for arts and culture in the city.

A PERMANENT INTERACTIVE LED CREATION, A multimedia accentuation of the building's already impressive architectural features., Custom, , , Grand Prix du tourisme québécois | Touristic Services, 2012, Canada, Public Spaces, Montreal, Business Objectives: \nEnhance Content Display\n, Our goal was to create a seamless design that would not only draw visitors to the building, but connect them in useful ways to all that’s happening on a given day in Montreal. Outside, we created an enormous “2-22” light signature for the building that conforms to the visual identity for the neighbourhood designed by Ruedi Baur and Jean Beaudoin. At its most ambient, the exterior installation glows like a beacon in the cityscape, and at its most active, it becomes a dynamic stage design that can be incorporated into live performance. From the street, floor-to-ceiling windows give way to the futuristic interior, where a central column appears to draw light energy upward. Once inside, visitors see that high overhead, light energy from the column is released into ribbons of light that curl whimsically downward, a visual metaphor for the abundance of centralized artistic energy that defines a Quartier des Spectacles experience. The custom-made column and LED ribbon installation runs 24/7, presenting the latest in local cultural offerings as well as ambient creative content. On the ground level, interactive touch screens allow visitors to interact with a map of Montreal as they research cultural events by date and category. Through the system, users can even share detailed information by email or SMS. This multi-user interactive installation is powered by X-Agora, Moment Factory’s in-house software, which is specially designed to seamlessly integrate new content from multiple sources and manage simultaneous interactivity within the displays. In all, this artistic installation is an ode to Montreal’s effervescent culture of innovative design as well as an informative and interactive medium offering access to the city’s rich art scene., Public Spaces, Building Facade, Museums Cultural Institutions, Digital Artwork

Our goal was to create a seamless design that would not only draw visitors to the building, but connect them in useful ways to all that’s happening on a given day in Montreal. Outside, we created an enormous “2-22” light signature for the building that conforms to the visual identity for the neighbourhood designed by Ruedi Baur and Jean Beaudoin. At its most ambient, the exterior installation glows like a beacon in the cityscape, and at its most active, it becomes a dynamic stage design that can be incorporated into live performance. From the street, floor-to-ceiling windows give way to the futuristic interior, where a central column appears to draw light energy upward. Once inside, visitors see that high overhead, light energy from the column is released into ribbons of light that curl whimsically downward, a visual metaphor for the abundance of centralized artistic energy that defines a Quartier des Spectacles experience.

The custom-made column and LED ribbon installation runs 24/7, presenting the latest in local cultural offerings as well as ambient creative content. On the ground level, interactive touch screens allow visitors to interact with a map of Montreal as they research cultural events by date and category. Through the system, users can even share detailed information by email or SMS. This multi-user interactive installation is powered by X-Agora, Moment Factory’s in-house software, which is specially designed to seamlessly integrate new content from multiple sources and manage simultaneous interactivity within the displays. In all, this artistic installation is an ode to Montreal’s effervescent culture of innovative design as well as an informative and interactive medium offering access to the city’s rich art scene.