Posted on : 5 Oct 2019
Artist Erwin Redl’s installation “Whiteout", which measures 110 feet wide by 180 feet long by 12 feet tall, incorporates 900 transparent white spheres suspended via cabling from a grid of steel poles. A white LED is embedded in each orb, and each orb floats 2 feet above the ground plane of the lawn. The artist’s computer-generated wave pattern sequences across the spheres from...
Read morePosted on : 30 Sep 2019
When you think of the Netherlands, you think of tulips. In the thirties of the 17th century, the tulip became enormously popular. We call this pe...
Read morePosted on : 28 Sep 2019
How can art be used to raise awareness about energy conservation?Well, in 2009, the City of Zurich came up with an imposing 8 mete...
Read morePosted on : 28 Sep 2019
‘House of Cards’ consists of 125 playing cards that light up simultaneously and separately. The ingenious building has different levels; it r...
Read morePosted on : 28 Sep 2019
It doesn’t matter how often you experience the changing of seasons; it remains a special sight. It affects your mood and how you view things. This work is an ode to the seasons. Gonzalo Bascuñan - supported by Perrine Vichet - made 'Flawless', a light installation made up of more than a thousand leaves. During the day the pigments of the leaves charge themselves using solar energ...
Read morePosted on : 28 Sep 2019
An enormous LED-covered red elephant lights the Place Béraudier with a luminous glow. Is this a hallucination? Of course not. In the vast zoo of...
Read morePosted on : 28 Sep 2019
Attend the concert of a metal pianist guided by light, whose melody transforms the real world into an imaginary one, flooding the ...
Read morePosted on : 28 Sep 2019
When contemporary technology takes over traditional candle lights, amazing things can happen! Fifty-five circles of light provide ...
Read morePosted on : 28 Sep 2019
A bug, a short circuit, a faulty contact? Suddenly, fire breaks through the searing, binary atmosphere of the square. For thirty-five minutes, light manipulations follow one after the other, small fireworks displays explode and jugglers capture the attention of visitors large and small in a gay musical setting. Sponsored by the 8th arrondissement City Hall, with the technical suppor...
Read morePosted on : 28 Sep 2019
The Jacobins Fountain will become a gigantic base for a night light topped with a shade on which childlike patterns are projected....
Read morePosted on : 27 Sep 2019
The planets and stars of the solar system meet in Lyon on December 8 at Place Kléber and parade along Cours Franklin Roosevelt all the way to th...
Read morePosted on : 27 Sep 2019
The Anooki have taken on an extra dimension. Place Bellecour is the new playground for these huge characters as this monumental in...
Read morePosted on : 26 Sep 2019
'Citygazing' is a huge city map of light that floats above the canal. It's made from thin metal cables and wires, fit with LED lights. This work is a variation on an earlier installation the duo created in Kuala Lumpur.The installation literally turns your world upside down for a moment.You would usually only be able to see this view looking down from an airplane, now it is right ab...
Read morePosted on : 26 Sep 2019
Helen Eastwood and Laurent Brun's Unisson is a graphic composition-decomposition show projected onto the facade of Saint-Jean Cathedral, playing ...
Read morePosted on : 25 Sep 2019
“Les Luminéoles” are helium light kites that flew up to 30-40 meters high along the wind corridor at Zorlu Center. With light...
Read morePosted on : 20 Sep 2019
In Platonic, Julien Menzel has created a contemplative sound and light installation, choosing a mathematical, geometrical, pure and contemporary ...
Read morePosted on : 19 Sep 2019
David Udovtsch's You and the Night takes a fresh look at the natural phenomenon of the Northern Lights. It's a meditative installation where the illusionist makes the fountain in La place des Jacobins appear in the sky studded with countless stars. At the feet of the Sirens, female guardians of the cosmos, a hint of simmering, imperceptible colour slowly emerges. The fountain transf...
Read morePosted on : 18 Sep 2019
The Fractal Metropolitan Layer represents the hidden opportunities of greenery and sustainability in the concrete jungle of the ci...
Read morePosted on : 17 Sep 2019
Ralf Westerhof’s ‘Drawn in Light’ is a large installation, six meters in diameter, made of steel. The metal wire is hand-bent into various ...
Read morePosted on : 16 Sep 2019
Spiders in the Square! They chase each other, fight, try to communicate and perform a fascinating dance on the threads of the giant web they have...
Read morePosted on : 14 Sep 2019
In the night, four robots with articulated metal arms play with light animations on their screens. Six naughty little robots, sometimes giggling, try to escape from the control of their larger counterparts. In a festive digital convergence, these robots are there to show you that they can amuse you and make you smile. Yves Moreaux followed the paths of painting, photography and dig...
Read morePosted on : 14 Sep 2019
Huge illuminated fishermen sit motionless on the harbour quayside, contemplating their catch. At the end of their line hangs a beautiful, sparkli...
Read morePosted on : 12 Sep 2019
The greatest wisdom has come to us from spaces of light. It's not for no reason that the Bible's Book of Genesis has it written do...
Read morePosted on : 11 Sep 2019
88888 is a team consisting of artists Karel Burssens and Jeroen Verrecht, known for their innovative installation ideas. In a rece...
Read morePosted on : 10 Sep 2019
Light always takes a moment to travel from one point to another - one second to cover 300,000 kilometres to be precise - and to reach our eyes.The travel time varies from, for example, eight minutes for the light from the sun to reach the earth, to millions of years from a star at the edge of our universe. This means that the information that light brings us, like how long ago that ...
Read morePosted on : 10 Sep 2019
'Alley of Light' by Serge Schoemaker Architects & DigiLuce is an urban space defined by light. It is a twelve-metre-long passage that is surround...
Read morePosted on : 8 Sep 2019
If wishes were dandelions. And why can't they be? Artists Merav Eitan and Gaston Zahr of the OBE Group in Haifa, Israel decided to re-create with...
Read morePosted on : 5 Sep 2019
The 'Digital Origami Tigers' started their journey around the world in 2010 to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Sydney, Australia...
Read morePosted on : 3 Sep 2019
This massive multi-coloured mosaic is sophisticated in part by being low res. In a high definition world, what you might ask could possibly be good about low resolutions? Lower than the first ever digital photograph taken in 1957? Well, ask its creator - Felipe Prado and he will urge to scan back to that time in your mind, when you were four. And the electricity went off and you and...
Read morePosted on : 2 Sep 2019
Some consider campfires to be historical places where people come together to share their stories. The most beautiful fairytales were thought of ...
Read morePosted on : 1 Sep 2019
Huge, brightly lit flowers and grasses have taken over the centre of the Place Bellecour, in an installation that invites visitors to stop and co...
Read morePosted on : 29 Aug 2019
Lips symbolise desire, lust and sensuality. And that's because we use them to make contact with others, by expressing our emotions and wishes or ...
Read morePosted on : 28 Aug 2019
Ben Zamora's installation MYTH triggers a variety of instinctive associations. Horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines light up in a fixed grid and change in a rhythm that starts slowly but gradually becomes faster and faster.The lines continuously form new compositions, a system of words and punctuation - are you looking at cuneiforms, hieroglyphs or graffiti? Zamora appeals to our...
Read morePosted on : 22 Aug 2019
This interactive installation by the Japanese motion graphics designer Masamichi Shimada is all about using light and technology to bring back so...
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