We Are FSTVL

Loops light sculpture

We Are FSTVL captivates visitors with its immersive visual experience, which is achieved through the use of ENTTEC's dynamic lighting solutions, including a Pixelator controller, Plink Injectors, and Pixel tapes. These technologies enhance the overall atmosphere of the festival and amplify the performances of world-renowned artists.

Client	We Are FSTVL
Type	Entertainment
Location	Upminster, United Kingdom
Products	Pixelator, PLink Injector
Year	2017
Project credits	Alan Hayes: Project Designer & Co Founder – This is Loop Harriet Lumby: Project Coordinator & Co Founder – This is Loop Katie Maddison: Creative Producer – We Are FSTVL Alex Lovegrove: Technical and Lighting design Alex Arvanitis: Installation Crew Harry Penfold: Installation’ Crew
Photography	© Fanatic 2017 for We Are FSTVL and Alan Hayes @ This is Loop

When one of the UK’s premier dance music events, We Are FSTVL, required a public installation that would look great during daylight hours but would also come alive at night, they enlisted the multidisciplinary creatives at This is Loop to come up with a solution. Designing and constructing a clever hooped structure that they had dreamed of bringing into existence for quite some time, the team then needed the highest level of LED pixel control technology in order to turn their vision into a reality. It didn’t take them long to pick exactly what they needed.

Concentric arcs of the sculpture seen from below, sunlight flaring off the polished steel against a bright sky

Solution

Controls

Powered by ENTTEC Pixelator and PLink Injectors

Lights

Lit up by 220 metres of pixel tape. Explore ENTTEC's range here

Diagram of the control chain, a rack mounted Pixelator feeding a PLink injector which in turn drives a run of pixel tape

We chose to use ENTTEC equipment for this light sculpture for a few reasons, but the first and foremost being reliability. It was very important for us that we had the absolute minimum of technical issues and that should a problem arise that there would be a substantial support network behind the product to solve the problem quickly.
We also needed a large number of DMX universes to run the quantity of LED pixels to achieve the result we wanted. The Pixelator combined with PLinks ticked the box for this as an all-in-one solution enabling individual control of all 6600 pixels via 44 DMX universes.
Additionally, setting up the Pixelator and PLink combo couldn’t have been be easier. It’s pretty much plug and play. We chose to add a punch down terminal Ethernet patch unit to our rack with the Pixelator to make terminating the CAT5 cables a bit easier/faster, but aside from that, set up was almost as simple as just plugging the unit in.”

Alan HayesProject Designer/Co-Founder, This is Loop