Liquid Truth — Clock Tower Graz Technical Realisation | Elevate Festival 2019

For Elevate Festival 2019, the generative data sculpture Liquid Truth turned Graz’s most iconic landmark into a real-time mirror of the digital truth debate: created by schnelle bunte bilder (Berlin) in collaboration with Knoth & Renner, the work translated live Twitter data on #truth and #fake into a pulsating projection across two faces of the medieval clock tower.

Hand mit Auge was responsible for the complete on-site technical realisation: planning and organisation of the two projection towers on the Schloßberg, construction of weatherproof projector positions, installation and alignment of the high-output projectors, precise two-sided mapping onto the historic architecture and its clock faces, and continuous technical operation throughout the festival — through wind, snow and Graz winter nights.

The artistic production was entirely in the hands of schnelle bunte bilder; our task was to build a reliable technical stage for the work in public space — from the steel scaffolding to the last pixel on the dial.

As part of the festival, Hand mit Auge additionally provided live video direction for the Elevate stage programme, including special guest Pamela Anderson.

Project: Liquid Truth — schnelle bunte bilder in collaboration with Knoth & Renner Curation: Berit Gilma (Elevate Arts) Role Hand mit Auge: Technical realisation — tower logistics, projection setup, mapping, technical operation Project Lead: Jakob Hütter Façade Projection (Hand mit Auge): Jakob Hütter, Jakob Figo, Martin Winterleitner Live Video Direction, Elevate Festival: Jakob Hütter Location/Year: Clock Tower Graz, Elevate Festival 2019 Photo: Johanna Lamprecht