Wednesday, November 17, 2010

I light

I light walk was a spectacular event which created a dynamic visual night environment where a number of local and international artists showcased their light installations. The city nightscape around singapore river was filled with light artworks. One key highlight of the Light Walk was an installation consisting of 29 large and beautiful light artworks of the Public Garden. The works were site specific which addressed the theme of people, time and place. It created distinctive skyline and the attractive public places were truly one of a kind.


The crouching digital origami tigers combined an ancient lantern making technique with cutting edge digital design and fabrication technology, bringing east and west together through tradition and innovation.

Animal Tree, a Lamp pole was done with the intention that can be installed in any public place. It provides shade during the day and emits light at the night. It is made of 512 pieces of orange happy bears.

The installation explores the meaning of touch in life and art. The sentence, "Touch. Do Not Please The Work of Art" is applied on the long wall using phosphorescent paint. In the day, only the title of the work as a protrusion on the wall is visible and touchable. At night, stroboscope spotlights highlight the passage for an instant every 30 seconds. The words light up and passers-by, when touching, looking or just passing the artwork, will cast their silhouettes and shadows onto the installation, leaving behind an instant personal graffiti.

Hammerhaus was a live performance, with artists Theinert and Hanfreich on 'visual piano' and sampler sequencer to interpret soundscapes into light art projections, generating abstract sound and visual experiences for the audience. Was an amazing show of 20 mins loved it totally.

Positive Attracts explores the belief that the optimism of our mental state of mind (4th Dimension) can effect a positive outcome of our physical state (3rd Dimension). The installation consists of the Artist's 9 favourite optimistic visionaries (Heroes) who have used their mental state to effect positive outcomes in their physical world. Inspired by songs such as "Rainbow Connection" and "Somewhere over the Rainbow", these Heroes incubate dreams and will "deposit positivity" to the public as they draw near to the Heroes. Famous quotes written at base of each Heroes will enable the public to guess who they are.

Fire flies installation was created from colourful PET-bottles and blinking diodes but yet retain the magical and whimsical qualities of fireflies.


Flora Magica spins a narrative between our technoid, cosmopolitan world and the complex, delicate natural environment of a hidden interior world. The façade of the Maybank building is transformed into a blossoming moon garden.

Imagine the jellyfish deciding to leave our polluted oceans and having a refreshing dip in the clean waters of Marina Bay before escaping into the universe as 'reverse UFOs', thereby for one last time trying to entertain and challenge all of us to be more aware of the consequences of our extravagance. The artists created these interactive and imaginative light objects providing an opportunity for visitors to 'grab' the jellyfish's tentacles and keep them on Earth.



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