Mapping Festival
- City : Geneva, Switzerland
- 2024
Organized and produced by Geneva's Mapping Festival, the aquatic and multimedia show celebrated the twentieth edition of the Festival.
A water show on the lake
To offer an event open to a wide audience, the Mapping Festival created a multimedia and water show on the iconic Eaux Vives beach, south of Lake Geneva. A show that emphasizes the theme of digital arts, masterfully staged by François Moncarey and Frédéric Favre.
Aquatique Show installed a 20-meter-high facade of straight jets on individual floating structures, as well as moving canons, creating a stage opening of nearly 100 meters for an impressive water show. A ballet of water jets operating to original music in a composition that uses the height of the water effects to construct an architectural structure.
Dancing fountains for a live concert
These dancing fountains compose a score of light to music performed live by the Geneva Chamber Orchestra under the musical direction of Raphaël Merlin: a lake opera "Eléments" mixing classical and electro and composed by PAVILLON (Jérémy Calame and Fabio Poujouly).
Water screens, moving jets and other effects for a multimedia show
Video and lasers projections are central to the show which conveys sensations and emotions.
Thanks to our water screens, these images appear to float on the water and fly across the city skyline, and our moving jets, which intersect within these images, carry them to heights of 30 meters.
The show also included pyrotechnic effects, flames, and drones to offer spectators a unique visual experience, a total show that fills the entire visual space of the beach, and a choreographic dialogue between the different techniques used.
Mapping Festival : 2024 Edition
The Mapping Festival is an annual event held in Geneva. Created in 2005, it showcases audiovisual, technological, and transdisciplinary arts. The festival invites international and local artists, encouraging creative exchanges. Its programming, accessible to a wide audience, enables the discovery of interactive works where the audience becomes an actor and participates in an innovative experience.
In 2024, the Geneva festival celebrates its twentieth anniversary and offers a range of events featuring digital technology. Highlights of this edition included the work of international artists Ryoichi Kurokawa, Murcof, and Hiroaki Umeda.
The water show, a perfect support for the digital arts
Technology produces and feeds an aesthetic that digital arts reflect. This visual expression is perfect for our water show creations and our projection supports such as our water curtains and screens. This aesthetic is made up of light and dark, and also of transparency. Water, a vector of light, perfectly embodies flows, networks and energies.
