Wham City Highlights
The Lightshow Editor
Before we were the giant mega-company that you see today (jokes!), Wham City Lights was an art/tech project. Our co-founder…Dan Deacon Wired Interview
Dan was recently interviewed by Wired magazine about other music apps that he loves. We aren’t the only ones! Check out which apps he recommends. What are some of your favorites? Read the article below: http://www.wired.com/2014/07/dj-dan-deacon-on-music-apps/
Welcome to Our Lab!
I’m not an engineer, but I’m involved in a lot of different projects here at Wham City Lights. We have a very inventive and hardworking team and one of the joys of working at a startup is watching these ideas come to fruition. We create large scale effects on many different phones , and unfortunately…
WCL in the UK
Click here to watch video! One of our first shows in the UK at New Wine. Thanks to Kristian Ponsford for the incredible footage!
WHAM CITY LIGHTS at ARTSCAPE!
As the work-week draws to a close, so commeth Baltimore’s ambitious and action-packed Artscape. There is no shortage of fun things to do- dance in the street! See a comedy show! Make some goshdang art! Our app will be active during a special late night DJ set by Baltimore’s own Spank Rock. Stop by the…
Who We Are
Wham City Lights is a Baltimore-based startup that creates crowd-synced lightshows. Our team and philosophy are equal parts tech, art, music and problem solving. We are devoted to connecting the performer and the audience. In our eighteen short months, millions of people have shared a lightshow with us.
Do Smartphones Have a Place at Live Events?
Earlier this year, Hong Kong hosted part of the international art festival, Art Basel. Around that time, Vice Media published this article– a photo essay that tries itself to digest how spectators consume art. Recksik’s photos document people taking photos of art pieces. (A little cyclical, no?) This photo essay’s deceit begs a larger…
Bright App “Kimd” Kindly Dims Your Screen At Concerts
Kimd gets us and we get them! Their app makes documenting shows less obtrusive by dimming smartphone screens while photos and videos are being taken. It’s a slick looking interface that has it’s own actions for taking pictures and video, and populates a library of photos from your events. Although we have almost the exact opposite…