Compass 1.0 / Shanghai
Compass 1.0 scans the divergences of the city and what makes this metropolis so unique.
The installation presents a vision on contemporary urbanity on a global scale, through tens of thousands
of time-mosaics of architecture, landscape and people in motion.

Compass 1.0 presents Shanghai in a one-night journey. From landmarks to harbors,
factories, parks and suburbs, the show explores the depths and heights of the city, from dark shadess
to dazzling perspectives. World Compass is a quest for signs of change in places colliding with each
other’s and people rushing or suspended in time in the urban landscape.





Interactive Shows
Compass 1.0 is an interactive installation presenting Shanghai through a huge photographic
database edited as HD films, accessed via a clock / compass / altimeter interface.

Visitors can travel in four dimensions: latitude, longitude, altitude and time. Visitors trigger high definition
films, projected on up to three giant screens, depending on their chosen locations on a multi-touch table
or motion tracking interface on the floor.

The Films have been edited from a 15,000-photographs database, each one featuring a special soundtrack
mixing live background sound and custom sound effects with its own unique rhythm, every frame being actually
a photograph. Every film is the genesis of each particular photograph.

Real time computer generated urban beats bring power and energy to the show.

The installation has been presented in the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA Shanghai),
Duolun Museum of Modern Arts (solo show) and others exhibitions in Shanghai and in 2009 & 2010
@ Le Cube Digital Art Center in Paris.

Private shows were also presented on the1400m2 lobby @ Shanghai Royal Meridien in 2009,
galleries and events.

3 installation set-ups
1 - Time & Geo-Tagged HD Films Installation.
2 - Multi-Touch Table Interactive Installation.
3 - Motion Tracking Interactive installation.
4 - Any of the above plus a large-print photographs exhibition.

 

 

M3 Medium size / motion tracking Installation @ digital art center Le Cube

 

 

 

Openings & Events
Custom soundtracks bring urban beats to Shanghai.

 

Compass 1.0 / Shanghai & DJ Undercover @ The Nut.

 

Touching Shanghai.

 

Multi-Touch Table + 126 HD films: 3 computers working together.

 

 

 

History and Planning
September 2007
30” TV spot for the City of Shanghai: “Rush”, the official TV spot announcing the first Shanghai eARTS festival.
Produced and directed from a 15.000 photographic database. The spot is aired on TV channels and skyscrapers LED screens.

October – November 2007
“Shanghai Compass Preview” @ MoCA Shanghai / Curator: Victoria Lu
Twenty Shanghai Compass HD films are presented on a twelve meter wide screen at the Museum of Contemporary Arts (MoCA Shanghai.)

April 2008
Crowds of Clouds / Curators: Zane Mellupe & Thomas Charveriat
“Shanghai Compass Preview” HD films and Large Photographic Prints are part of “Clouds of Crowds” exhibition at Island6 Arts Center, Shanghai.

June 2008
Royal Meridien People’s Square / Shanghai / Curator: Michael Wendling
“Shanghai Compass Preview” HD films and 40 large photographic prints are presented during one month in the 1200m2 lobby
@ Royal Méridien on People’s Square, Shanghai.

July 2008
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art Solo Exhibition / Curator: Ma Yan
Shanghai Compass 1.0 interactive installation & photo exhibition solo show on the two floors of the Duolun
Museum of Modern Arts, Shanghai.

April 2009
Le Cube Digital Art Center / Paris
World Compass Beta / Curator: Florent Aziosmanoff.

February 2010
Le Cube Digital Art Center / Paris
World Compass 1.0 / Curator: Florent Aziosmanoff.

March 2010
The Nut / Shanghai: World Compass 1.0 / Special event with DJ Undercover / Multi-touch table beta.

July 2010
Naço: Shanghai Beats 1.0 / Real time urban beats beta.

 

 

Team
Design / Production / Direction
Florent Nicolas Wendling

Production Coordination
Jay Xu

Programming
Andy Mei
Yoyo Lo
Mike Fan

Assistants
Wan Ting
Mona Au
Yifang Cai
Anita Cao
Chunchun Lu
Andrew Wang

 

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