At a fundraising campaign organized by the University of Cambridge, King’s College Chapel was lit up in a series of projections created by Paris-based artist Miguel Chevalier.

The “Dear World... Yours, Cambridge 2015” event displayed colorful images relating to the many fields of the University of Cambridge, including biology, neuroscience, astrophysics, literature, and biotechnology. This series of “immersive projection” accompanied the speeches of renowned professors and alumni, and even concluded with an unannounced appearance by the one and only Stephen Hawking.

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Source: Miguel Chevalier

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Chevalier, who works exclusively with computers, was the first artist that had been invited to create an art work inside the chapel. But it goes without saying that he had a magnificent canvas to work on. The 16th-century chapel is one of the finest examples of late Perpendicular Gothic English architecture, and Chevalier’s projections highlighted its beauty in a new way.

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Source: Miguel Chevalier

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Source: Miguel Chevalier

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A description of the event on Chevalier’s website stated,

Each of the projections entices the audiences into a magician and poetic atmosphere where science meets spirituality.


By - grape Japan editorial staff.