White night/Nuit Blanche is a event organized for several years in Slovakia. As the name suggests, the concept originated in France. In the past, we co-operated with several artists on their temporary art installations. This year, Alex Zelina and Radovan Dranga approached us to help them with their piece – Øuroboros. They heard about our work and we naturally agreed to help them, because we love Biela Noc :)

What is hidden inside Øuroboros?

They built the piece from cylindric truss and an enormous mass of different cables. We used single LED Ethernet Controller 3. The circle is actually made of two pieces. Each has 3 digital strips (30 diodes/meter) hidden inside a protective tube.

We sealed all electrical components. It is outside, exposed to elements, so it has to weatherproofed. As additional diffuser layer guys also used white electrical tape. This way, you have a nice, continuous effects playing in sync with music.

Animations and effects

Experienced artists like Radovan and Alex had no problem creating videos and animations. They rendered effects for Øuroboros themselves. Then it is simple drag and drop into LED Strip Studio software as video effect.

All we had to provide were dimensions for the video. In the software, you can use a Grid tool. Set up how many points are in your matrix and thus creating dimensions for your video. Pretty easy :)