The Winston-Salem Light Project Translates Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" In Terra Luna

There's a historic dissonance between starving artists and the bourgeoisie who can afford to purchase their work. Norman Coates, Winston-Salem Light Project (WSLP) Executive Director and professor at UNCSA, helps erase the fissure with his multimedia public art project Terra Luna that open to the entire viewing public at First Baptist Church on Fifth Street. It will remain on display nightly from 8:30pm to 11:00pm until this Saturday April 25^th.

Four UNCSA students helped Coates craft this graphic light show (matched with music) that is projected onto the neoclassical church. The presentation, inspired by Jules Vernes' 1865 science fiction novel “From Earth to the Moon” conceptualizes the book which has men landing on the moon 100 years before history. Coates sees the project as an intersection between the interdisciplinary.

“It's more about joining life and art and science and just being moved by it.”

In person, the project feels like a mesmerizing urban twist on star gazing. 

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