Large-scale projections designed by Ross Ashton helped bring the year-long celebration for Cambridge University's 800th year to a close. Called Transforming Tomorrow, the light shows were projected onto Cambridge's Senate House and adjacent Old School, and also part of Kings College Chapel and the nearby Gibbs Building. E/T/C London supplied a combination of PIGI and video projection technologies for three separate but related animated shows: Nano (Kings College Chapel); Planets to Proteins (Gibbs building) and Blurring the Boundaries (Senate House).
The images projected onto the fascia of the residential Gibbs building stretched 70 meters wide, while those on the Kings College Chapel rose to 40 meters high. Both surfaces fed by five PIGI 6Kw projectors with double rotating scrollers. These were all positioned 110 meters away in weatherproof hides. Three PIGIs produced the Gibbs picture, and two fed the image onto the Chapel.
Four Christie S+20K projectors were used for Blurring the Boundaries, a 10-minute looped show, on the two buildings that sit at right angles to each other at Senate House. They sat in custom hides on a large lawn, and the images were soft-edged together in the middle.
The imagery explored the interactions between academic disciplines ranging from music, psychology, acoustics, computer science and neuroscience, computer science and linguistics, and quotations from alumni ranging from Lord Alfred Tennyson to Douglas Adams.
Ashton had also designed projections for the 800th Anniversary's opening ceremony 12 months earlier. The closing ceremony projections were viewed by up to 20,000 visitors over three evenings.
