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Osram Art Projects
Osram launches new lighting-related art project in Munich
Seven Screens is the name of the Osram’s new art project. Seven ultra-modern masts near Osram’s headquarters in Munich will be providing a platform for light-related art in the public domain. The opening artwork on November 8 is by the artistic trio of Mader|Stublić|Wiermann.
OSRAM ART PROJECTS. SEVEN SCREENS 01/06 „reprojected“ LED-Installation, Mader/Stublić/Wiermann, OSRAM Hauptverwaltung, © Florian Holzherr
Seven Screens refers to seven 6 metre high masts installed on green space along Osram’s headquarter on the Mittlerer Ring in Munich. Lit by high-brightness LEDs, these over-sized screens will be available to lighting and media artists. Selected artists will be invited at regular intervals to produce a piece of art especially for this installation.
The debut artwork is by the well-known media artists Holger Mader, Alexander Stublić and Heike Wiermann who recently caused quite a stir with their lighting installation at the Uniqa Tower in Vienna.
Seven Screens was developed in cooperation with Osram Light Consulting. More than three quarters of a million high-brightness RGB LEDs have been installed on the masts and can be controlled via fibre optic cable from a central computer room. The LEDs are spaced ten millimetres apart. Each surface on the masts has 55,296 LEDs capable of displaying static or moving images.