REKINDLING VENUS
is a strikingly bold new work from screen-based installation artist, Lynette Wallworth which extends her work into a cross-platform environment. The first stage of the work In Plain Sight will be launched at the Bigpond Adelaide Film Festival in Feb 2011.
It will be followed by an immersive full dome feature developed for planetariums that will be launched globally to coincide with the next Transit of Venus in June 2012 and as part of the program for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. For Wallworth, the Transit of Venus provides a metaphor for global scientific co-operation that was achieved once before in the 1700s and is needed now to address the urgent scientific challenge of our times — climate change.
The visually poetic imagery for the work will combine Lynette's interactive approach to imagery drawn from the global scientific community, including marine biologists, climate change modellers, underwater cinematographers and meteorologists.
