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Massive outdoor artwork heading Cairngorms' way


By Tom Ramage

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The Cairngorms will feature in a huge outdoor artworks event this summer.

It was confirmed today that Green Space Dark Skies, which is led by Walk the Plank as part of UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK, will include the mountains in their unique project.

Spectacular: look out for this sight in August
Spectacular: look out for this sight in August

Thousands of people across the UK, including over 1000 people in Scotland, are being recruited to create large-scale outdoor artworks in 20 of the most outstanding landscapes between April to September.

The gatherings will be created at dusk by local participants, referred to as Lumenators. They will be guided along pathways or waterways carrying smart lights that will enable digital choreography to be captured on film, while also being sensitive to the night-time environment.

Each short film will incorporate the stories of the people and places featured and will be broadcast online after the event. Lumenators, as well as the general public are also encouraged to share their own connections to the landscape through Green Space Stories, a citizen science project to create an online archive of stories detailing our relationship to nature in 2022.

Artists will be outward bound for UNBOXED
Artists will be outward bound for UNBOXED

Developed by graduate engineers at Siemens, the hand-held lighting technology, called Geolights and carried by participants, uses existing wireless programmable lights and incorporates something that's never been done before: the ability for the lights to be animated through geo-positioning, whereby the position of each light can be known in relationship to the others.

Cairngorms National Park will participate on August 11. The event will be taking place both on water and on land. Paddleboarders and kayakers will help to create patterns on the loch. Paddleboarders and kayakers are encouraged to bring their own equipment if they have a paddleboard or a kayak, otherwise there will be equipment available for Lumenators to use on the day.

To sign up for Cairngorms National Park event - click here


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