British artist Bruce Munro has covered an Australian desert with over 50,000 light bulbs.
–The color-changing installation is entirely solar powered.
–The Singapore skyline is taken over by light installations as part of the city's annual iLight Marina Bay festival.
–This festival features 25 artworks in total.
–This piece by Chinese artists Feng Jiacheng and Huang Yuanbei is responsive to its environment. The artwork brightens when the surrounding air quality is good, and dims when it is not.
–The Taiwan Lantern Festival has been held every year since 1989.
–It is celebrated as part of lunar new year.
–The Auckland Lantern Festival is currently in its 17th year, and attracts thousands of spectators.
–The four day festival is timed to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
–A four-day light festival kicked off in the English capital on January 2016, and features the work of 30 global artists. One highlight is the "1.8 London" structure by American artist Janet Echelman, which is constructed using fishing nets and suspended above Oxford Circus.
–The Les Voyageurs (The Travellers) series by Parisian artist Cedric Le Borgne sees human figures float silently in mid-air or perched on the edges of buildings.
–These figures were around the St. James area of London's West End.
–Currently in its 10th year, the GLOW Eindhoven festival is an exhibition of art made with light.
–It is conducted in the City of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. There were 730,000 people in attendance at GLOW Eindhoven in the last year.
–One of the highlights of GLOW Eindhoven is the Luminarie de Cagna, created by a family of artists. The team behind it is led by Italian artist Cesario De Cagna and his three sons.
–Kobe Luminarie is an annual lighting festival held in Kobe, Japan.
–The first Kobe Luminarie was conducted in December 1995. It was organized to commemorate the Great Hanshin earthquake that had occurred earlier that year.
–The festival, which illuminates a local shopping mall with 200,000 colorful bulbs, runs for 12 days. This year, 3.25 million people were in attendance.
–Amsterdam Light Festival is an annual light and arts festival.
–The festival features light installations that have been created in collaboration with international artists.
–Visitors can view the work through two routes: a walking tour and via boat.
–The boat tour (referred to as the "Water Colors" option) is a 75-minute boat trip which features an up-close look at the installations suspended over the canals.
–SIGNAL festival is a festival of light that takes place annually in Prague, featuring installations and collaborations with international artists.
–One festival highlight is The Pool: an interactive installation by American artist Jen Lewin. The Pool allows visitors to walk on top of light installations placed on the floors.
–Evoluce, another highlight, is a light installation that is projected onto different surfaces. Evoluce is part of a larger series of light projections, known as Evolució, and for the SIGNAL festival installation it is projected onto the Santa Ludmila Church.
–The Evoluce artwork is the brainchild of Onionlab, a multidisciplinary studio based in Barcelona. The projected display is created using 3D projection mapping techniques.
–Currently in its 15th year running, the Lights in Alingsas is located in the town of Alingsas in Sweden.
–The annual festival began when a group of architecture students were experimenting with different light installations.
–Since then it has grown every year, and now has an attendance record of 80,000 visitors.
–The Lux Helsinki lighting festival will be conducted in January 2016. It has been running for eight years.
–The festival is conducted during the darkest time of year and will feature 16 installations in total.
–The festival features art installations from local artists as well as artists from from Finland, France, Belgium and Canada.
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