Shanghai Compass

Shanghai Compass 1.0

Shanghai MoCA Museum of Contemporary Arts Exhibition.
Shanghai Royal Meridien People’s Square Exhibition.
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art Exhibition.
Global Events until Shanghai World Expo 2010.

Two Mediums Side by Side / One Show

Shanghai Compass

Interactive Installation: A Virtual Trip in Shanghai.

This interactive installation uses a huge photographic database as animated films, accessed via a clock/compass interface. A preview, non-interactive projection (12mx5m), has been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Arts (MoCA), Shanghai, in October & November 2007. Each film is the genesis of each particular photograph. 15.000+ pictures are searched and processed to produce 156 HD films,synchronized on 3 giant screens.

The visitors can travel in four dimensions: lateral, vertical, depth and time, walking around the interactive clock/altimeter/compass on the floor. The interface is projected from the ceiling with motion sensors tracking people's position on the floor. The films being produced from high res photographs, up to 3 HD films can be projected side by side. Soundtracks are designed to match the visuals, including on location live backgrounds and custom designed sound effects.

Photography exhibition: A Two Years Night Journey.

With a database of more than fifteen thousand photographs shot during a two-years night journey in Shanghai, photographer and director Florent Nicolas Wendling scans the divergences of the city, searching for people, lights and shadows and what makes this metropolis so unique.

He now presents a one-night imaginary voyage in the city and its outskirts. From landmarks to harbors, factories, parks and suburbs, Florent explores the depths and heights of the city, from dark shades to dazzling perspectives. Over/Night is a quest for signs of changes in places colliding with each others and people rushing or suspended in time in the urban landscape, altered so drastically in the past few years. The exhibition presents fifty large photographic prints.

Presentation of Shanghai Compass: The Show

Project History & Planning

September 2007
TV spot for the first Shanghai eARTS festival
Rush, the official TV spot announcing the first Shanghai eARTS (Electronic Arts Festival) is produced from a 15.000 photographs database
as a preview mirroring Shanghai Compass, and aired on TV channels / skyscrapers giant video screens.

October – November 2007
Shanghai Compass Preview @ MoCA Shanghai
Twenty Shanghai Compass films are presented on a twelve meter wide screen @ the Museum of Contemporary Arts (MoCA Shanghai), People Square.

April 2008
Crowds of Clouds
Shanghai Compass Preview films and Large Photographic Prints are part of Clouds of Crowds exhibition @ Island6 Arts Center / Shanghai.

June 5 to June 30, 2008
Royal Meridien People’s Square / Shanghai.
Shanghai Compass films and large photographic prints one month exhibition in the entire 1200m2 Lobby of the five star Royal Meridien Shanghai on People’s Square.

July 2008
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art Exhibition.
Shanghai Compass 1.0 interactive installation & photo exhibition solo show @ Duolun Museum of Modern Art / Shanghai.

2008 – 2010
International Exhibitions -> 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
International exhibitions in major cities Worldwide.

Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art Exhibition

Content:

Interactive Installation: Shanghai Compass 1.0
156 HD films projection on large screen accessed via a compass interface.

Photography Exhibition.
Total number of photographs: 40.
Color Prints size: 200x100.
Black and White Prints size: 150x100.
Exhibition Space: 800 m2.

Location:

Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art.
No 27, Duolun Road, Shanghai, CHINA 200081.

Dates:

Dates: July 7 to 14, 2008.
Opening date: July 7, 2008.

Guests:

Opening guests: 300
Number of visitors: 300-500 people per day.
Opening hours: 9am to 5pm.

Shanghai Compass used 800m2 on both first and second floors @ Duolun Museum of Modern Art.

Shanghai Royal Meridien Exhibition

Content:

Photography Exhibition.
Total number of photographs: 40.
Color Prints size: 200x100.
Black and White Prints size: 150x100.
Exhibition space: 1200 m2.

Shanghai Compass Preview.
20 HD films projection on large screens.

Location:

People Square, Shanghai.
Dates: June 5 – June 30, 2008.
Duration: one month.

Dates:

Opening date: 6pm, June 5, 2008.
Exhibition: June 5 to June 30.

Guests:

Opening guests: 200
Lobby Exhibition: 1200m2
Number of visitors: 600-1000 people per day.

Contacts

Design and Production: Florent Nicolas Wendling
Mail: fwendling@gmail.com
Assistants: Wan Ting, Mona Au, Yifang Cai, Anita Cao, Chunchun Lu, Andrew Wang
Mail: production@zoumzoum.com
Asia site: www.nwendling.com
Europe-US site: www.zoumzoum.com
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Presentation of Shanghai Compass: The Show

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Shanghai Compass Technical Specs

1 – Interface

Two interfaces are available.
A – Lasers based motion sensors + logic / software + compass interactive animations.
B – Infrared based motion sensors + logic / software + compass interactive animations.

2 – Projection

One SD screen.
1A – One SD source in one SD projection.

One wide HD screen.
2A – One HD 720P source -> one HD 720P projection.
2B – One HD 1080p source -> one HD 1080P projection.

Panoramic (U shaped) three SD screens.
3A - One HD 720P source divided -> three SD projections.
3B – One HD 1080P source divided -> three SD projections.

Panoramic (cylindrical) two to three HD screens.
4A – Three HD 720P sources -> three HD 720P projections.
4B – Two HD 1080P sources -> two HD 1080P projections.

About the Director

Europe

Florent Nicolas Wendling (尼古拉 "Nicolas" in China) is a French/American director and photographer. Born in Provence (France), he has lived in Paris, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Shanghai and worked in more than twenty five countries.

Florent started his photography career shooting for Paris news agencies and his television career producing and directing European TV series and documentaries. In 1988, with the help of Eurocreation, he raised $750.000, produced and directed "Draw me Europe", a peak prime time television series shot and broadcast in 13 countries involving for the first time a mix of filmed and computer graphics interviews. 45 European magazines and newspapers followed the two-months shooting with daily or weekly articles.

America

He moved to New York City in 1992 where he joined Peter Spirer (nominated for the documentary Academy Award a few years later) and John Hurtz in Metropolis Productions. They produced music videos, (one of them,"Queen's English", featuring Madonna vocals), TV bumpers (NASA, MTV...), feature film and TV commercial special effects.

Five years later he relocated to Los Angeles where he designed and directed film and tv commercial special effects (Paramount, Princess cruises, ESPN...) In 1998, he moved to San Francisco where he designed, directed and produced interactive online and wireless interface projects (Netscape, AOL...) and a $20-million advertising campaign (Syquest).

His editorial and advertising photography work has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post,New York Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, New Yorker, Wired, Chicago Tribune, Rolling Stones, Newsweek and national billboard campaigns in the US.

Asia

He moved to Asia in 2003 and completed a 3-week photoshoot for Grand Hyatt Shanghai new branding campaign (the highest hotel in the World at that time). Later on he directed "Landmark", a film for Jin Mao Group, featuring the highest skyscraper in China. In Beijing, Florent shot a special feature about Commune by the Great Wall, now one of China's modern architectural landmarks.

He also worked with magazines, shooting editorial photography features, advertising and corporate projects and created "Culture Clash", a series of thirty photographs: With local paintings and photographs picturing traditional Chinese women as a starting point, from red to gold, the project was a collision between traditional Chinese outfit and fashion photography. Four exhibitions, part of the Year of France in China, were presented in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.

Florent, now in his forties, is working on photography, film and interactive projects for major international brands in Asia, Europe and America. In 2007, he presented a new series of works: Rush, a TV spot announcing eARTS, the first Shanghai digital artsfestival, aired on TV and skyscrapers video screens, Shanghai Compass Preview, twenty digital HD films presented in the Museum of Contemporary Arts (MoCA Shanghai), in October & November 2007.

Shanghai Compass 1.0 Interactive Installation + Photo Exhibition have been presented on the two floors of the Duolun Museum of Modern Arts, Shanghai, in July 2008. Upcoming international exhibitions will present new versions of this show.

Samples of his work can be seen online: Asia site: www.nwendling.com Europe / US site: www.zoumzoum.com