Voyage was commissioned for 'Winter Lights' as part of Canary Wharf Group’s public art programme of temporary and permanent visual arts.Ĭlick here to visit Aether & Hemera's website. This cross-disciplinary cooperation focuses on researching the sensory engagement power of an immaterial force like light and how collaborative participatory arts and design methods can influences our way of living in a variety of contexts, scaling from interiors to urban spaces.' Aether & Hemera’s practice finds inspiration at the intersection between art and computer science and in the past few years they have developed a particular interest in participatory forms, interactive environments and aesthetic data visualisation. Based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Aether & Hemera is 'an interdisciplinary collaboration to research the aesthetic challenges of light and its power to trigger emotions and response, creating a sense of identity or setting a mood. Aether is Claudio Benghi, the media architect Hemera is Gloria Ronchi, the lighting artist. She created the Morai (the Fates), the Keres (goddesses of cruel and violent death), Oizys (misery). The rest of Nyx’s children are usually associated with the darker aspects of creation. Voyage aims to encourage viewers to make a transition from reality to imagination and to travel with absolute freedom to all the places we care to imagine, inviting us to re-live childhood memories and to embrace our freedom.Ĭreating an unexpected and unusual addition to Canary Wharf’s urban landscape, Voyage inspires the viewers to think creatively about the spaces around them, encouraging busy Londoners to stop and interact with both it and each other.Īether & Hemera are the ancient Greek god and goddess of brighter upper air and daylight. Hemera and Aether were the opposites to their parents, representing light whereas their parents represented the dark. This years Winter Lights is a new work specially created for Canary Wharf by Aether & Hemera, a partnership of architect Claudio Benghi and lighting. The etymology of the word ‘voyage’ comes from Latin ’viāticum’, meaning ’provision for travelling’. People can engage with the installation and impact the behaviour of the lights from their mobile phone. The corresponding Proto-Indo-European day god is * Dyeus.‘Voyage’ by Aether & Hemera: A Journey into Imagination Date uploaded: February 13, 2013Įnlivening Middle Dock at Canary Wharf during the dark winter months, Voyage consists of three hundred floating 'paper boats' illuminated from within by coloured LED lights that come alive between around dusk and 2am, putting on a spectacular light show.Īether & Hemera’s installation is designed to be an interactive experience. The Latin noun diēs is based on the Proto-Italic accusative singular *dijēm, itself stemming from the Proto-Indo-European root *dyeu-, denoting the "diurnal sky" or the "brightness of the day" (in contrast to the darkness of the night). Cicero also says that Dies and Caelus were the parents of Mercury, the Roman counterpart of Hermes. While, Hyginus says that, in addition to Caelus, Aether and Dies were also the parents of Terra (Earth), and Mare (Sea). It’s a piece of art that establishes a conversation with the surrounding space, and changes configuration, size and arrangement in relation to the context. Cicero says that Aether and Dies were the parents of Caelus (Sky). She was the daughter of Chaos and Caligo (Mist), and the counterpart of the Greek goddess Hemera.Īccording to the Roman mythographer Hyginus, Chaos and Caligine were the parents of Nox (Night), Dies, Erebus (Darkness), and Aether. iː z/ (Latin diēs " day") was the personification of day. Hemera/Dies (1881) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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