Is it blasfemy or not? For sure the english church seems to be quite open to suggestive interactive architecture project like Evoke. This project was realized by Haque Design + Research especially for Illuminating York, a event from the 26th of October till the 3th of November. During Illuminating York residents and visitors can experience cutting-edge light-based artwork, exhibitions, site-specific performances and tours in some of the ancient city’s many special places.
Evoke is a site pecific installation made of a massive 80,000-lumen projection of an animation onto the York Minster Cathedral and a system to let the audience interact with images.
The patterns of the animation are ‘generated in realtime by the words, sounds, music, and noises produced collectively by the public, determined by their particular voice characteristics.’
People with voices of different frequencies, rhythms or cadences will be able to evoke quite different magical patterns upon the surface of the building – a staccato chirping will result in a completely different set of visual effects to a long howl for example, blending old and new to continue animating the facade of the Minster.
