DuPont™ SentryGlas® Expressions™ used for artworks in UK & Canada

Celebrating Luciano Berio: British artist Dody Nash was commissioned in early 2004 by the Royal Festival Hall at London’s avant-garde South Bank Centre to produce a series of video/plasma "Moving Dreamspaces" incorporating DuPont™ SentryGlas® Expressions™ laminated glass technology.

Dody Nash in London: celebrating Luciano Berio's musical oeuvre with 'Moving Dreamspaces': videoplasma screens incorporating SentryGlas® Expressions™ technology. Photo © DuPont

"Moving Dreamspaces", part of a festival called ‘Omaggio à Berio" (or ‘Honouring Berio’) celebrates the life and work of the celebrated contemporary Italian composer Luciano Berio (1925-2003). The decorative laminated glass for this project was produced by Fusion Glass Designs Ltd. of Clapham, London.

First time worldwide with plasma screens
Nash said: "DuPont™ SentryGlas® Expressions™ is a revolutionary new way for designers and artists to access decorative glass technology that could only be harnessed by silkscreen specialists until now.

"By placing plasma video screens horizontally underneath a layer consisting of photos of Luciano Berio and Italian landscapes that would have influenced him, and extracts from his musical scores, we hoped to encourage visitors to consider the videos more carefully than we could have with standard, vertical video screens. The laminated glass also protects the plasma screens very effectively. I believe that this is the first time worldwide that DuPont™ SentryGlas® Expressions™ has been used with plasma screens."

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Director of Fusion Glass Designs, Adam Clemson, said: " SentryGlas® Expressions™ gives us the ability to creatively combine art and technology, allowing any artwork or design to be easily integrated into laminated safety glass. This opens up a huge range of possibilities for architects and designers to create unique and distinctive statements – from one-off commissions to complete structural façades."

‘Bits & Bytes’ sculpture for McGill University (Montreal)

McGill University: "a visual expression of bits and bytes". Photo © Pierre Leclerc

Montreal-based architect and artist Pierre Leclerc has created a sculptural artwork for the entrance hall of the Lorne M. Trottier building of McGill University, Canada. The building hosts the university’s new IT engineering facility. The piece, which was funded by the Quebec government, is an artistic interpretation of a mainframe computer. It incorporates SentryGlas® Expressions™ decorative glass interlayer with perforated images that the artist calls "visual expressions of the bits and bytes on computers".

The artwork is 6 m tall by 1.20 m wide and 40 cm deep. However, thanks to the use of colour and reflective glass within the sculpture, it appears to be two metres in depth. The bits and bytes printed on a clear layer of SentryGlas® Expressions™ are reflected many times over thanks to the incorporation of reflective layers, composed of glass and mirrors, within the sculpture. Leclerc commented: "The effect obtained thus creates a distortion between the simple exterior aspect of the sculpture and its complex internal life."

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