Flightphase teamed up with audio visual artists The Light Surgeons to create a new permanent installation for the National Maritime Museum in Greenwhich, England which opened on Thursday, July 14th.

The installation, entitled “Voyagers”, engages with Briton’s long standing relationship to the sea, featuring thematic images and film from the museum’s collection mapped across an abstract wave shaped screen. The challenge was to use the physical canvas to communicate this rich archive and at the same time give visitors an audio visual ‘shop of curiosities’ inspiring them to think about the themes and to evoke the sensation of the sea. Being a permanent exhibition the design also had to be simple and timeless.

More details about the installation in our Case Study.

Flightphase have developed bespoke software for projection mapping, procedural animation and spatial sound, built with open source coding platform openFrameworks. Taking the triangular shape as a design template The Light Surgeons researched and meta tagged over 300 images and films made up from the Museum’s archive. The software animates the meta tag database through a real time ocean simulation, generating a sea of typography flowing across the structure. Atop the waves of words the thematic images and videos illuminate the facets with architectural precision. The experience is completed with an audio soundscape designed by Jude Greenaway.