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Saturday, October 31 2009
Disneyland Paris Halloween daytrip with Niels, Dan and Jon
Copyright 2009 Hilde Heyvaert.
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Light Night is one of the UK’s largest annual arts and light festivals, and over two special nights some of Leeds’ most recognisable indoor and outdoor spaces will be transformed by spectacular artworks and captivating performances by local, national and international artists. This year we celebrate the themes of progress and innovation, kicking off with a vibrant illuminated parade celebrating 100 years of social change since women got the vote.
Vivid Light transforms Sydney into a wonderland of 'light art' sculptures, innovative installations and grand-scale projections for all to enjoy.
May 23 - 9 June 2014
GALAXIA II is a modern-day take on the aesthetics of ‘Optical Art’ of the 1960s, only this time with LED lighting as its contemporary medium.
Op Art is a perceptual experience that plays with how your vision functions, investigating the area between understanding and seeing. It exploits the functional relationship between the retina of your eye – the organ that ‘sees’ patterns – and your brain, the organ that interprets patterns. Certain visual stimuli can cause confusion between these two organs, resulting in the perception of irrational optical phenomena, something Op Artists used to full effect.
GALAXIA II plays with two perceptual phenomena: firstly the fact that colour is always interpreted by your brain in relation to its context, and secondly the way that the sculpture’s three-dimensional character results in a geometrical instability, especially when you move across the work.
www.vividsydney.com/events/galaxia-ii
www.vividsydney.com/?gclid=CjkKEQjw75CcBRCz2LiEs5OPsZoBEi...
Backbone Campaign collaborated with Green For All to support the Sunrise Movement's campaign for a Green New Deal. Solidarity Brigades in seven cities deployed their spotlights to project messages on political offices (Pelosi's San Francisco office and the DC Rayburn House office building) and shopping districts in Seattle, Chicago, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Atlanta on the weekend before Christmas 2018.
More on how you can get involved in this kind of creative activism at BackboneCampaign.org/solidarity
More on supporting the Green New Deal at www.greenforall.org/
More on the Youth Led Sunrise Movement and their support for a Green New Deal at www.sunrisemovement.org/gnd/
Sky Grass
by Kathryn and Martin Bevz.
Sky Grass is an evolution of the 2012 Vivid installation “Sea Grass” hanging from the railway overpass near Circular Quay Station.
The installation features 30km of hand-cut fibre optic cabling powered by individually controllable LED nodes. Ultra sonic sensors trigger vibrant colour effects as viewers pass underneath.
Sydney is once again transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 24 May – 10 June 2013.
Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the Vivid Ideas Exchange featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers.
Backbone Campaign collaborated with Green For All to support the Sunrise Movement's campaign for a Green New Deal. Solidarity Brigades in seven cities deployed their spotlights to project messages on political offices (Pelosi's San Francisco office and the DC Rayburn House office building) and shopping districts in Seattle, Chicago, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Atlanta on the weekend before Christmas 2018.
More on how you can get involved in this kind of creative activism at BackboneCampaign.org/solidarity
More on supporting the Green New Deal at www.greenforall.org/
More on the Youth Led Sunrise Movement and their support for a Green New Deal at www.sunrisemovement.org/gnd/
In a watershed moment for Vivid LIVE, Australia’s own creative innovators The Spinifex Group will take to the Sydney Opera House sails with a newly commissioned artwork, “PLAY”, transporting audiences through a playfully projected journey that will celebrate Vivid Sydney’s light, music and ideas in an immersive new way.
Sydney is once again transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 24 May – 10 June 2013.
Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the Vivid Ideas Exchange featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers.
Backbone and allies like IVAW, GodePink and more utilized creative tactics to grab the media's attention and make our shared values more visible at the opening of the Bush presidential library and policy institute.
An administration whose failed policies and warmongering doesn't deserve a memorial, the fact that people laugh at the idea of a Bush Library is a testament to their folly. The Bush Lie-Bury is a reverse memorial to the 8 years (a following wake) of fallen lives and squandered opportunities that has led this country down such a terrible path.
By day, activists used bobble-head paper mache puppets rendered in the likeness of Bush, Cheney and the rest of his gang to force Dallas police to arrest them, giving us a cathartic if only symbolic relief. At night, activists agitated and inspired onlookers with light projections in downtown Dallas affirming and making our values visible. The creative tactics utilized earned the attention of the media who has largely ignored objections to the memorial.
Backbone collaborated with the Seattle Patagonia Store to train local activists in creative visibility tactics and the theory behind Backbone Campaign's artful activism. Teamwork!
Vivid Sydney is a unique winter festival of light, music, and ideas.
Vivid 2015 will run from the 22nd of May until the 8th of June 2015.
Lighting The Sails: Universal Everything
This year multi-disciplinary design collective, Universal Everything, has been chosen to create a projected artwork for the sails of the Sydney Opera House. Founded 11 years ago by UK creative director Matt Pyke, the bold, colour-friendly group has previously collaborated with Radiohead, Warp Records and on large-scale events such as the London 2012 Olympics. Playing with technology to invent new forms of design and moving imagery, Universal Everything has created a digital whirl of colour to be projected onto the sails of Australia's major artistic icon.
Their work will light the UNESCO World Heritage-listed sails of the Sydney Opera House.
University of Sydney
As Vivid Sydney transforms the city and its harbour into a colourful canvas of light, music and ideas, the University of Sydney - Australia's oldest university - is joining the festival for the first time.
Vivid Path to the Future, a collaboration between the University of Sydney and owners and managers of Vivid Sydney, Destination NSW, with the support of Finely Tuned, will see the University's iconic Quadrangle illuminated with artwork sourced from world-leading projection artists along with students, staff and members of the wider community. Some of this artwork will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander themed in celebration of National Reconciliation Week.
Vivid Sydney is a unique winter festival of light, music, and ideas.
Vivid 2015 will run from the 22nd of May until the 8th of June 2015.
Dolly: Artist: Tina Fox
Dolly was designed and handmade by local Sydney artist Tina Fox as a response to childhood memories of night-lights, bedtime dolls and soft teddies. The doll’s extra long arms and huggable body beg to be embraced by both children and adults.
A UK-trained architect and artist, Fox enjoys pushing the limits of craft and sculpture to soften modern technologies and is always looking for new ways to create craft on an architectural scale and to drag it out of its innocuous domestic milieu. The artist aims to smash assumptions about handcrafting and to raise awareness of its potential in art.
Dolly is crocheted from 6-mm cotton rope using an extra large hook and is internally illuminated with metres of IP65 LED strip-lights, which cast a dim light through the woven structure. She looks beautiful in the daytime, concealing all trace of electronics and gadgetry, and then softly glows at night to draw attention from passers-by. She also provides the perfect photo opportunity – who could miss the chance to snap that all-important selfie with a giant Dolly?
June 2014
Vivid Light transforms Sydney into a wonderland of 'light art' sculptures, innovative installations and grand-scale projections for all to enjoy.
May 23 - 9 June 2014
A 3D-mapped projection transforms the façade of Customs House into a series of massive ‘musical sculptures’, in a poetic explosion of light, colour and sound. Each of these ‘sculptures’ depicts a family of musical instruments which you can ‘play’ in real time. Take your place in front of throngs of festival-goers and create a visual and sonic masterpiece on the face of this iconic Sydney edifice. Vivid Sydney is delighted to welcome back Danny Rose, the design team that last year created an extravaganza of colour and light on the façade of Customs House, with Move Your Building. This year, the team again transforms the frontage of this historic landmark to bring you Play Me! , another breathtaking, interactive, 3D-mapped projection. You select one of the ‘musical sculptures’ from a touch screen, get onto a platform in front of Customs House and ‘play’ the sculpture, bringing it to life in glorious torrents of ever-changing colour, light, form and sound.
TDC – Technical Direction Company
www.vividsydney.com/events/play-me
www.vividsydney.com/?gclid=CjkKEQjw75CcBRCz2LiEs5OPsZoBEi...
Backbone Campaign collaborated with Green For All to support the Sunrise Movement's campaign for a Green New Deal. Solidarity Brigades in seven cities deployed their spotlights to project messages on political offices (Pelosi's San Francisco office and the DC Rayburn House office building) and shopping districts in Seattle, Chicago, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Atlanta on the weekend before Christmas 2018.
More on how you can get involved in this kind of creative activism at BackboneCampaign.org/solidarity
More on supporting the Green New Deal at www.greenforall.org/
More on the Youth Led Sunrise Movement and their support for a Green New Deal at www.sunrisemovement.org/gnd/
Shine a light for the reef rally in Melbourne to put pressure on Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg, after Monday's judicial review verdict found that previous Environment minister Greg Hunt approval for the Carmichael coal mine was legal.
Black Lives Matter to Teachers Solidarity Action. Photos By Alex Garland (visit his blog at thedignityvirus.com), Guerrilla Light Projection and OLB light panels provided by Backbone Campaign (BackboneCampaign.org).
Teachers took to the streets to demand justice for their black and brown students and act in solidarity with the #BlackLIvesMatter movement.
Yes hello you digit"e"rrorists
I like things that can have an impressive effect in their simplicity.
For example, I simply turn the exposure time up to the exploding stop and screw maximal down the ISO - then I looking for an interesting light source and I'll drive over it to the end of the exposer time.
The stuff even has a name in the art world today, but don't ask me - I forgot it and I'd rather play a round with my smartphone cam.
Yes, light art can be that simple! Without a big laser, Resolume, Tooll3 or SMODe community.
I would have to boot up my desktop PC and like a doctor to mess around with the brain, but at the moment I'm making it easy for myself and my mobile is comfortable and easy to hold, I really don't want more.
My last DigitalArt-Project was most likely abducted! Help!
And for once it was probably not the Hamas or wild Russians, but poor digital t"e"rrorists who apparently don't fit in with the stuff that I'm giving away free of charch something or not just to estch & ever, but only to art-creating comrades from the fields of light and video art like VJs, and like to exclude Music DJs that steles us from our work and jobs in clubs and at events as real Artists & Performers.
Or they are very poor digit"e"rrorists who are now selling what I'm actually giving away free of charch.
Whatever my goals is still very well supported to, my 78 free resolume arena plugins
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are spreading wildly wild and even wilder now. Thanks!
But something pathetic must still be somewhere, maybe not even mathematicly but ethically certainly - well not that bad.
I wish everyone a nice Saturday evening & cheers bennoH.🐼🙋
Oh yes, and you dear digit"e"rrorists, don't get too close to the lines here, you can only look at them and not inhalecollect them, nevertheless, have fun on the playground you ...
University of Sydney
As Vivid Sydney transforms the city and its harbour into a colourful canvas of light, music and ideas, the University of Sydney - Australia's oldest university - is joining the festival for the first time.
Vivid Path to the Future, a collaboration between the University of Sydney and owners and managers of Vivid Sydney, Destination NSW, with the support of Finely Tuned, will see the University's iconic Quadrangle illuminated with artwork sourced from world-leading projection artists along with students, staff and members of the wider community. Some of this artwork will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander themed in celebration of National Reconciliation Week.
Hundreds and Thousands
by Kirsty Grant, Derek Samuel, Annika Weis and Yvonne Stewart.
We all have memories of sugary sweet, colourful "Hundreds and Thousands" from our childhood.
A canopy tunnel of light arcs over viewers as they walk through, surrounded by masses of tiny individually controlled lights that look like pixels on a computer, to bring back your childhood memories of hundreds and thousands.
Sydney is once again transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 24 May – 10 June 2013.
Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the Vivid Ideas Exchange featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers.
PLEASE: Download, share and post these images. Ask people to people sign the petition urging President Biden to Pardon Daniel Hale at www.StandWithDanielHale.org
In 2015, Daniel Everette Hale released documents revealing devastating failures in the U.S. drone war program, among them the widespread killing of civilians.
For his truth-telling in the interest of humanity, Daniel has been prosecuted under the Espionage Act and is now being held in the Alexandria (Virginia) Detention Center awaiting sentencing on July 27, 2021. He faces up to 10 years in federal prison.
Please go to www.StandWithDanielHale.org to find out how you can call on President Biden to pardon Daniel and call on Federal Judge Liam O’Grady to sentence Daniel to time-served so that Daniel can be immediately released on July 27.
These images were created on Saturday, June 26, 2021 when supporters of Daniel Hale hit the streets of DC. They used spotlights to project images of Daniel and messages calling for President Biden to "Pardon Daniel Hale." Most photos by Eleanor Goldfield
Sponsors:http://BanKillerDrones.org, BackboneCampaign.org, WHISPeR/ExposeFacts, Veterans for Peace Chapter 34 (New York City), CODEPINK, World Beyond War, World Can’t Wait, Veterans for Peace (National).
AGAIN, PLEASE download, or share and post these images. Ask people to people sign the petition urging President Biden to Pardon Daniel Hale at www.StandWithDanielHale.org
Vivid Light transforms Sydney into a wonderland of 'light art' sculptures, innovative installations and grand-scale projections for all to enjoy.
May 23 - 9 June 2014
The Geodesic dome is a unique structure first attempted after World War 1, the mathematics and construction of which were then formalised by Buckminster Fuller after World War 2. The otherworldly forms created are both organic and geometric, and are like no other device of modern construction. Through the Geodesic Light Dome, Vivid Sydney invites you to explore a new take on a modern icon of design. With new fabrication technology and lighting possibilities, this classic structure has been redesigned to emphasise the planes and facets of the sphere and create a unique visual installation experience.
www.vividsydney.com/events/geodesic-light-dome
www.vividsydney.com/?gclid=CjkKEQjw75CcBRCz2LiEs5OPsZoBEi...
Photos and good words from our friends at Spokane Coalition Builders:
www.facebook.com/SpokaneCoalitionBuilders
"Another great turnout in Spokane by the sane people who are against the proposed coal terminal in Longview.
A very big thank you to the folks who traveled from Montana and Idaho to speak their mind and show unity with all who oppose this bad idea to kill people and destroy our environment to "create" a few obsolete jobs. Most of which are simply temporary in nature.
"Also a GIANT THANK YOU to Eric, Martin and all the Backbone organization for your support to make this as visual and energetic as possible. We always love to see you not because you all are so effective and organized but we also think the world of you as people and Warriors for what is best for humanity and our environment. We were able to show the Corporations what the people really want for this region.
Also thank you to all the Tribal members who have shown your support and your fight to help motivate us all. We are all in this fight together.
Every red shirt attending and any supporters including elected officials should feel proud to stand with the majority even when it feels like a minority. We are on the right side of history.
PLEASE: Download, share and post these images. Ask people to people sign the petition urging President Biden to Pardon Daniel Hale at www.StandWithDanielHale.org
In 2015, Daniel Everette Hale released documents revealing devastating failures in the U.S. drone war program, among them the widespread killing of civilians.
For his truth-telling in the interest of humanity, Daniel has been prosecuted under the Espionage Act and is now being held in the Alexandria (Virginia) Detention Center awaiting sentencing on July 27, 2021. He faces up to 10 years in federal prison.
Please go to www.StandWithDanielHale.org to find out how you can call on President Biden to pardon Daniel and call on Federal Judge Liam O’Grady to sentence Daniel to time-served so that Daniel can be immediately released on July 27.
These images were created on Saturday, June 26, 2021 when supporters of Daniel Hale hit the streets of DC. They used spotlights to project images of Daniel and messages calling for President Biden to "Pardon Daniel Hale." Most photos by Eleanor Goldfield
Sponsors:http://BanKillerDrones.org, BackboneCampaign.org, WHISPeR/ExposeFacts, Veterans for Peace Chapter 34 (New York City), CODEPINK, World Beyond War, World Can’t Wait, Veterans for Peace (National).
AGAIN, PLEASE download, or share and post these images. Ask people to people sign the petition urging President Biden to Pardon Daniel Hale at www.StandWithDanielHale.org
Backbone and allies like IVAW, GodePink and more utilized creative tactics to grab the media's attention and make our shared values more visible at the opening of the Bush presidential library and policy institute.
An administration whose failed policies and warmongering doesn't deserve a memorial, the fact that people laugh at the idea of a Bush Library is a testament to their folly. The Bush Lie-Bury is a reverse memorial to the 8 years (a following wake) of fallen lives and squandered opportunities that has led this country down such a terrible path.
By day, activists used bobble-head paper mache puppets rendered in the likeness of Bush, Cheney and the rest of his gang to force Dallas police to arrest them, giving us a cathartic if only symbolic relief. At night, activists agitated and inspired onlookers with light projections in downtown Dallas affirming and making our values visible. The creative tactics utilized earned the attention of the media who has largely ignored objections to the memorial.
Backbone and allies like IVAW, GodePink and more utilized creative tactics to grab the media's attention and make our shared values more visible at the opening of the Bush presidential library and policy institute.
An administration whose failed policies and warmongering doesn't deserve a memorial, the fact that people laugh at the idea of a Bush Library is a testament to their folly. The Bush Lie-Bury is a reverse memorial to the 8 years (a following wake) of fallen lives and squandered opportunities that has led this country down such a terrible path.
By day, activists used bobble-head paper mache puppets rendered in the likeness of Bush, Cheney and the rest of his gang to force Dallas police to arrest them, giving us a cathartic if only symbolic relief. At night, activists agitated and inspired onlookers with light projections in downtown Dallas affirming and making our values visible. The creative tactics utilized earned the attention of the media who has largely ignored objections to the memorial.
Backbone Campaign collaborated with Green For All to support the Sunrise Movement's campaign for a Green New Deal. Solidarity Brigades in seven cities deployed their spotlights to project messages on political offices (Pelosi's San Francisco office and the DC Rayburn House office building) and shopping districts in Seattle, Chicago, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Atlanta on the weekend before Christmas 2018.
More on how you can get involved in this kind of creative activism at BackboneCampaign.org/solidarity
More on supporting the Green New Deal at www.greenforall.org/
More on the Youth Led Sunrise Movement and their support for a Green New Deal at www.sunrisemovement.org/gnd/
June 4th, 2012.
Sydney will once again be transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 25 May – 11 June 2012.
Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the new Vivid Ideas Exchange at the MCA featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers.
Vivid Sydney is a major celebration of the creative industries and the biggest festival of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, attracting over 400,000 attendees in 2011.
Now heading into its fourth year, Vivid Sydney was ranked in the Top Ten global ideas festivals by the influential Guardian newspaper in the UK.
At the Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall, Empress Lawn during the Light to Night Singapore Reimagine festival at Civic District.
YOU IMAGINE
WHAT YOU DESIRE
Gamma World - MCA Original Facade
Vivid Light transforms Sydney into a wonderland of 'light art' sculptures, innovative installations and grand-scale projections for all to enjoy.
May 23 - 9 June 2014
The MCA Projection takes the audience on an integrated journey, moving from one space to another in a constant flux of movement. Inspired by Artist Jess Johnson, the MCA building morphs into an interactive and dynamic performance space, coming to life, changing its appearance, and even seeming to change its structure at times through the use of isometric designs, old school gaming, pop up 3D books and forced perspective. As each chapter evolves we have built drama and emotion through animation and 3D visual effects tricks that will take the viewer on an abstract, emotional and playful journey through constantly changing worlds.
Projection Technology by TDC – Technical Direction Company.
www.vividsydney.com/events/gamma-world-mca-original-facade
www.vividsydney.com/?gclid=CjkKEQjw75CcBRCz2LiEs5OPsZoBEi...
Backbone Campaign collaborated with Green For All to support the Sunrise Movement's campaign for a Green New Deal. Solidarity Brigades in seven cities deployed their spotlights to project messages on political offices (Pelosi's San Francisco office and the DC Rayburn House office building) and shopping districts in Seattle, Chicago, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Atlanta on the weekend before Christmas 2018.
More on how you can get involved in this kind of creative activism at BackboneCampaign.org/solidarity
More on supporting the Green New Deal at www.greenforall.org/
More on the Youth Led Sunrise Movement and their support for a Green New Deal at www.sunrisemovement.org/gnd/
Possible Imprints
By David Vu, Nicholas Malyon and Nikola Kovac.
Possible Imprints is a dynamic and ever changing installation which lets users leave temporary 'imprints' by touching and moving the luminous acrylic rods.
Sydney is once again transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 24 May – 10 June 2013.
Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the Vivid Ideas Exchange featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers.
Hundreds and Thousands
by Kirsty Grant, Derek Samuel, Annika Weis and Yvonne Stewart.
We all have memories of sugary sweet, colourful "Hundreds and Thousands" from our childhood.
A canopy tunnel of light arcs over viewers as they walk through, surrounded by masses of tiny individually controlled lights that look like pixels on a computer, to bring back your childhood memories of hundreds and thousands.
Sydney is once again transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 24 May – 10 June 2013.
Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the Vivid Ideas Exchange featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers.
In a watershed moment for Vivid LIVE, Australia’s own creative innovators The Spinifex Group will take to the Sydney Opera House sails with a newly commissioned artwork, “PLAY”, transporting audiences through a playfully projected journey that will celebrate Vivid Sydney’s light, music and ideas in an immersive new way.
Sydney is once again transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 24 May – 10 June 2013.
Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the Vivid Ideas Exchange featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers.
June 4th, 2012.
Sydney will once again be transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 25 May – 11 June 2012.
Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the new Vivid Ideas Exchange at the MCA featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers.
Vivid Sydney is a major celebration of the creative industries and the biggest festival of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, attracting over 400,000 attendees in 2011.
Now heading into its fourth year, Vivid Sydney was ranked in the Top Ten global ideas festivals by the influential Guardian newspaper in the UK.
June 4th, 2012.
Sydney will once again be transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 25 May – 11 June 2012.
Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the new Vivid Ideas Exchange at the MCA featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers.
Vivid Sydney is a major celebration of the creative industries and the biggest festival of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, attracting over 400,000 attendees in 2011.
Lighting the Sails: an amazing, vivid, colourful video installation on the 'shells' or 'sails' of The Sydney Opera House created by multi-award winning German design collective URBANSCREEN.
Now heading into its fourth year, Vivid Sydney was ranked in the Top Ten global ideas festivals by the influential Guardian newspaper in the UK.
Vivid Sydney is a unique winter festival of light, music, and ideas.
Vivid 2015 will run from the 22nd of May until the 8th of June 2015.
Beat: Artists: Arup Singapore Pte Ltd (Chengyu Wang / Cherry Agnes Narita)
Collaborators: Dan Foreman, Rob Tsu, Ying Sun, Sudhir Bommu, Michael Markieta, S1t2 (Chris Panzetta and Naimul Khaled)
Beat comprises a series of large translucent shapes that emit an intense pulsating light display when touched, timed to the rhythm of the human heart.
Initially, the work appears to be a group of inert objects that throb slowly with a relaxed pulse of light. Those in the vicinity may be intrigued by their gentle demeanour and indulge an instinctive impulse to touch one. Touch stimulates the objects to respond, by connecting them to the person’s heartbeat. The objects increase the intensity of their pulse to keep pace with the individual’s own cardiac rhythm.
Participants delight in gratifying their curiosity and discovering the concept of this installation. Eventually, they allow it to rest – until the next touch wakens it again.
The creators of Beat utilised a luminance lighting technique involving a small low-power LED light source to internally illuminate the translucent material. This creates a large glowing surface area with maximum impact and minimal light loss. Sensors housed inside the objects detect a human pulse through the fingertip and trigger the LED to replicate the participant’s heartbeat with a pulsating light.
The installation, while fun, inclusive and lighthearted, performs an important role in creating awareness of how simple lighting can promote controlled use of energy consumption. It also taps into the energy of the festival and makes Vivid’s heart Beat.