LUX - Liverpool Lightnight 2021
Creators of the UK’s largest 3D projection game: LUX
Client
Liverpool LightNight
Year
2021
For LightNight 2021 with the support of Everyman & Playhouse Theatres, Focal Studios collaborated with DefProc Engineering and Urban Workbench to create an original, interactive projection-mapped game called LUX in St Luke’s ‘Bombed Out Church’.
LUX is an immersive augmented reality game and art installation that responded to the theme of ‘Play’ by giving LightNight visitors the chance to interact with one of the city’s most iconic cultural venues through multi-sensory play.
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AFFECTING REALITY THROUGH ‘PLAY’
Inside a futuristic control pod inspired by classic 80s sci-fi and retro-futuristic games, players use contactless gesture controls to play with a wondrous virtual machine integrated into the architecture of St Luke’s tower, seeing the building come alive with light and energy as they progress.
Racing against the clock, LUX challenged players to apply creative problem solving skills in response to a dynamic environment, seeing how even mistakes and failure can lead to discovery and wonder. Each interaction with the projected visuals rewards the player with entrancing multi-sensory feedback through light, wind and bass generators inside the pod, offering a truly unique experience where they become the artist, controller and performer for the gathered audience.
LightNight 2021: Play
Friday 21 May 2021
Online and in venues across Liverpool city centre
5pm – late
This event was part of LightNight, Liverpool’s free one-night arts festival.
LightNight invited audiences to stay up late, as our museums, galleries and studios opened their doors to stage a free trail of special events for all ages, exploring the theme of Play.
Over 100 special events took place in-person and online including hands-on workshops, exhibitions, tours, talks, installations and much more.
Produced by local social enterprise Open Culture, 2021’s LightNight festival explored how Play can offer a space to create, re-imagine and find novel solutions to global problems.
For more information visit lightnightliverpool.co.uk.
#LightNightPlay
Event Information
Fully Accessible
This was a fully accessible and larger-than-life experience which left a lasting impact on audiences and made users examine the role of immersive and augmented reality gaming in the physical world.
WARNING: This installation could potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.