2021 Exhibition
24. Bird in Paradise
Artist Information
The Wright Museum is transformed into a living vision of the revolutionary jazz scene in Black Bottom and Paradise Valley, Detroit’s thriving black neighborhoods of the 1940s.
What begins as a stylized resurrection of long lost nightlife in Paradise Valley soon becomes a soaring, hypnotic journey through time and space, shape and color, when the legendary Charlie “Bird” Parker comes to play. Through his music, the architectural facade itself becomes an instrument of memory, resilience, and liberation.
With every animated note his band plays, Parker carries us further away from the hardships of long days on the assembly line and into a reverie of open roads, flight, and freedom. Echoes of the past, both light and dark, weave in and out, driven by the radical sounds that would change music forever.
New D Media was the team behind Knowledge is Power at the Detroit Public Library during DLECTRICITY’s inaugural event in 2021. This presentation marks the return of Gabriel Hall and Daniel Land to DLECTRICITY.
Visit the Artwork on our map here: https://dlectricity.com/map/#24.
New D Media / LightBender Studio
LightBender Studio is built upon a foundation of visual effects, light based sculpture and projection mapping. Led by Gabriel Hall as an evolution of New D Media Arts, their creative work and skillset focuses on applying experienced vision to traditional forms of video content creation while expanding to the artful experiences of site installations, crypto specific art, augmented reality, animated murals, generative AI, and VR applications.
Following their appearance at Dlectricity in 2012, Hall and Daniel Land have since received commissions by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Focus Hope, the University of Michigan, Corvette, Cadillac, Jaguar, Chevy, Panasonic, Denso, Red Bull, MeadowBrook Hall, and more.
Land is currently in post-production on his feature documentary, 'America You Kill Me' about Detroit LGBT rights pioneer Jeffrey Montgomery. He was awarded a Kresge Arts Fellowship for Film Direction in 2014.
Together with the inclusion of Andrew Charles Edmund for Dlectricity 2021, LightBender Studio sets out to cultivate and continuously explore the skills, toolset, and experience to reach for the artistic heights of what can be done with new flexible and expressive creative technologies.
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