With a high quality interstellar show with a musical adaptation from David Bowie background, with leading edge laser technology projected across Latin America and the Bogota Planetarium, a new stage has begun where audiences are trying to immerse themselves in art, science and technology .
New planetarium equipment includes a Griffyn 4K32-RGB laser projection system that highlights the stage as one of the latest Latin American technologies.
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Initially, the mayor of Bogotá decided on “Interstellar Traveler, Show by David Bowie”, in which he also presented the Fundación Orquesta Sinfonic de Bogotá, whose musicians wore costumes reminiscent of the crews of interplanetary ships.
There Bowie’s subversive music was shown in the dome, where they also performed planets, stars and astronauts, all amid thousands of colors that make the display more realistic.
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The Fundación Orquesta Sinfonic de Bogotá also presented in “Interstellar Traveler, The David Bowie Show”.
“The planetarium is a place where citizens meet, not just science, but also art, culture and creativity,” Catalina, director of the Provincial Art Institute (Idartes), told EFE Valencia.
Regardless of the culture, Valencia highlights that the new projection system has a high efficiency index compared to electricity consumption. In addition, the projectors are equipped with laser technology, which consumes less electricity than conventional xenon gas lamps.
A friend of the environment
Deputy Director of Supply for Administrators Carlos Mauricio Galeano emphasized that the new equipment not only enables better colors and new immersive experiences, but is also “more environmentally friendly”.
With all of this, it would “reduce the carbon footprint because projectors rely on laser technology that will last longer and in about 10 or 15 years, when they lose their useful life, won’t pollute them as badly as they used to” in fact . The technologies do. Halogen base “.
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Musically he wrote, Bowie, who was born in London in 1947 and died in New York in 2016, “Music for the stars, planets and the space race”.
From September 4th Gustavo Cerati, Daft Punk, Queen, Coldplay, Metallica and the incomparable Michael Jackson will dominate the planetarium with their music. None of them need an introduction.
The new equipment not only enables better colors and new immersive experiences, it is also more environmentally friendly.
see and hear
On December 22, 1969, the then Colombian President Carlos Leras Restrepo inaugurated the Bogotá planetarium, but under the direction of Virgilio Barco Vargas (1986-1990) the scene changed and began to develop into a fascinating cultural center of the city.
The space race, which brought about changes in humanity, aroused interest in astronomy, science and the exploration of the universe, which led to the construction of large planetariums, a tool invented in Germany but rediscovered in that decade to please an eager publicly. scientific knowledge.
From above, the iconic theater has the shape of a snail and, among the many anecdotes, some of its equipment was made possible by an alliance between the Mayor of Bogota and the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia.
The projection system, screen and equipment – which will be retired – came from Jena to what was then the GDR, at that time the best equipment for planetariums.
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With the new technology, which is projected onto the 23 meter diameter dome, viewers can watch films such as “The Birth of Planet Earth” produced by Spitz Creative Media and “Revealing the Invisible Universe” by the European Southern Observatory (THAT). .
“These are Voldom projections,” explains Galliano, who remembers that it is an immersive viewing format based on 360-degree panoramic films. After the renovation, the planetarium now also has a Space Museum, 650 square meters, five exhibition rooms and interactive rooms.
It also contains a library specializing in astronomy and space research, a children’s room with special content for children and a balcony from which one can see part of the city center.
EFE
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