This year again, the winners of the various Nobel Prizes will not come to Stockholm to receive their prize, because of the Covid. But the Swedish capital still decided to mark what had become a ritual with luminous works projected on the monuments of the city. Their theme: the Nobel Prizes, and their discoveries.
With our correspondent in Stockholm, Frédéric Faux
” Looks like an art installation, but we don’t know what it is. »In front of this tunnel formed of luminous hexagons, Tony is perplexed, but an explanatory panel is fortunately there to enlighten the passers-by. ” It is an evocation of LED lamp technology », He notes.
For a week, around twenty luminous works will be screened and displayed around the monuments of Stockholm. Illustrating the work of the Nobel Prize winners is not easy, but the guest artists rose to the challenge.
To honor Marie Curie, one of the city’s bridges is completely illuminated in fluorescent green, which is the color emitted by radium in the dark. The 2009 Physics Prize, awarded to discoveries in optical fiber, is evoked by a shower of light rays reaching the sky.
The French Benoit Baudry, professor of computer science at KTH University in Stockholm, for his part designed an interactive game around the major Nobel prizes whose different phases, but also the activity of the software that runs it, are projected on a building.
“ The work from above is a laser that projects all the code, all the operations that are necessary to make the game. It is something that we do not see, which is intangible, but which nevertheless is present in the game. a lot of chores in our lives. “
These installations will illuminate the Swedish capital until the evening of December 12.
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