Annex 2 i Light Marina Bay Artists & Installations
Artist : Angela Chong (Singapore) Installation : ⊂/⊃
About the Installation The installation is a functional sculpture that illuminates at night while allowing the public to use it as a sitting area. Constructed out of acrylic sheets, the installation features coloured LED lights that are reflected onto the sheets. As a sculpture, it will also serve to give a futuristic edge to the environment.
What’s Smart ? The artist uses LED lights to light up the edges of the acrylic sheets. The lights are programmed to change rhythmically to form a dynamic light display.
About the Artist A graduate from RMIT Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts (Honours), specializing in sculpture, Angela Chong has a keen interest in creating a narrative in her installation works. A recipient of the NAC Local Bursary and Georgette Chen Scholarship awards, her works deal with light and darkness, constantly blurring the line between fiction and ‘reality’. Her influences vary from literature to poetry, music to films. Her installations depict memories and an attachment between the object and a character using light projections. She is currently interested in creating interactive works. This is her first outdoor work dealing with light.
She has been to several art residencies such as the Nes Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland in 2010, Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo, Japan in 2008 and for Sense of Fear Festival 2006, Tabor, Czech Republic and participated in 100 Points of Lights by Next Wave 2006 in Melbourne, Australia. She has been actively exhibiting locally in major exhibitions such as the Singapore Art Show 2005 and Visions and Illusions 2004.
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Angela is currently a part-time Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts with the Faculty of Foundation Studies.
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Artist : Chris Bosse (Germany) Installation : Digital Origami Tigers
About the Installation The crouching digital tigers combine ancient lantern-making methods with cutting-edge digital design and fabrication technology, bringing East and West together through tradition and innovation.
The tigers are inspired by “zhezhi”, a Chinese term for paper folding, which is more popularly known by its Japanese name “origami”. In producing this artwork, both traditional Chinese lantern makers from the Sichuan province of China, where lantern-making has been in practice for over 800 years, and local artisans were consulted.
The Digital Origami Tigers are currently travelling the world as part of the World Wildlife Fund’s Year of the Tiger campaign.
What’s Smart ? Pulsating low energy LED lighting bring the sculptures to life.
About the Artist German-born architect Chris Bosse is the director of the Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology in Sydney. LAVA was founded in 2007 with offices in Sydney, Stuttgart and Abu Dhabi.
LAVA has recently completed the design for the Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower in Abu Dhabi; Future Hotel Showcase Germany; architectural installations 'Green Void' and ‘Digital Origami Tigers’ in Sydney; the Sherman Bibliotheca in Sydney; the 2009 MTV Awards set in Sydney and the Sydney 'Tower Skin'.
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LAVA won an international competition that garnered over 400 entries from the world’s highest profile architects to design the Heart of Masdar in Abu Dhabi, the world’s first eco city in the United Arab Emirates. The project for the city centre includes a plaza, hotel, convention centre and entertainment and retail facilities. Masdar won the Special Award - Environmental Category in the 2009 Cityscape Dubai Awards.
For the Beijing Olympics, Bosse was a key designer of the Watercube, which was the winner of the Atmosphere Award at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale and was recognized in the 2007 AR Awards for Emerging Architecture, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), London.
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Artist : Edwin Cheong (Singapore) Installation : Positive Attracts
About the Installation In almost every culture, the symbol of hope and optimism are represented as the immaterial light. Oxford Dictionary defines "Optimism" as "having hopefulness and confidence about the future or successful outcome of something; a tendency to take a favourable or hopeful view".
The lighting installation 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).
Readings and quotes such as "Laws of Attraction" by Thomas Troward, "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill, "The 4th Dimension" by Dr Cho Yonggi, "I think, therefore I am" by Rene Descartes deals with the importance of thinking positively if one were to expect a positive outcome.
Entitled Positive Attracts , 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 exemplary Heroes incubate and are flushed with sweeps of rainbow color before another human (Dreamer) crosses their path. As
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another “Dreamer” comes close to any of the Heroes, the intensity of positive white light will concentrate on where he/she is standing, “charging” him/her with “optimism” as he began to dream and think positively with the Hero. The “Dreamer” then walks away happy, knowing he/she is one step closer to his/her dreams.
What’s Smart? RGB LED strips with software programming send waves of rainbow colours through the ‘Heroes’. Acoustic sensors detect human presences at close proximity to a particular ‘Hero’ which will trigger a series of lighting effects.
About the Artist Artist Edwin Cheong began his career as an architect after receiving his Master of Architecture degree from the National University of Singapore in 2000. His relentless interest in 3-dimensional visual arts expanded his artistic explorations to fields of furniture, landscape and sculptures. Along with his art practice, Edwin Cheong Aesthetics Studio, he has served as a guest judge for local TV station MediaCorp's art competitions and has contributed numerous articles on Environmental Art to the major Mandarin local newspaper, Lianhe Zaobao. He serves/served as design + art educator in Singapore's art institutions such as Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and LaSalle-SIA College of Arts. His most notable work is the 33ft tall Youth Olympic Games' Commemorative Sculpture at Marina Bay, Singapore.
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Artist : Francesco Mariotti (Switzerland) Installation : Fire Flies
About the Installation
This installation is created from colourful PET-bottles and blinking diodes but yet retain the magical and whimsical qualities of fireflies.
What’s Smart ? This installation transforms recycled materials into a beautiful work of art. Fire Flies only uses 75 watts and is solar powered.
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Francesco has lived and studied in Switzerland, France, Germany and South America. While studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, he focused on the complex relations between art, nature and technology. After a long stay in Latin America in the 1970s, he experimented with the possible interactions between electronic and IT devices and the creation of multi-sensorial installations and works.
Francesco has participated in major international exhibitions, from Documenta in Kassel, 1968 to the Biennales in Sâo Paulo, 1969 and Medellin, 1979 as well as Expo in Osaka, 1991. He has carried out in-depth research on video installations and video art, becoming one of the organisers of the Video Art Festival in Locarno which was planned by his friend Rinaldo Bianda. In 2005, together with the biologist Stefan Ineichen, he organised the first Festival of Fireflies in Zurich. This experience led to the development of the project 'Immigration' for the Park of Living Art in Turin and for the Symposion Lindabrunn near Vienna.
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Artist : Ingo K Bracke (Germany) Installation : I C U Standt:punkt
About the Installation ICU Standt:punkt is about shifting perceptions and Bracke articulates it through his canvas of light work through an intricate play of digital light language and impulses. His canvas transforms with every step, communicating in its own tempo with the rhythm of the city. With every flush of change, the point of view alters and evokes senses of recognition and anticipation.
What’s Smart ? The installation uses highly efficient metal halide lamps, a special projection system and is powered by bio-diesel generators.
About the Artist Ingo is an installation artist, light designer and scenographer. He works mainly with the sculptural medium of “light”.
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Bracke studied architecture and scenography in Kaiserslautern and Hanover. He is a scholarship holder of DAAD at the theatre academy of Barcelona, completed his final diploma project on Thomas Mann’s novel “Death in Venice” and also studied at the Saarbrücken academy of visual arts (Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar) on audio-visual art with Professor Christina Kubisch, was appointed master-class student with a degree in installation art; scenography studies at the academy of fine arts, Dresden with Professor Johannes Leiacker, completed artistical research work on “light and space” and was appointed master-class student with a degree in scenography.
Since 1999 he has produced numerous dramaturgical light concepts for concerts with classical and contemporary music for Peter Toth, Helmut Öhring, Markus Stockhausen, Stefano Scodanibbio, Jürgen Grötzinger, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Kaiserslautern-Saarbrücken, conductor Christoph Poppen, Orchestra of Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, conductor Uwe Sandner, Staats- und Domchor Berlin, cond. K.-U. Jirka as well as scenography at music theatre world premieres by Jay Schwartz, Claas Willeke a. o.
He also lectures at academies such as Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar on scenography and installation art and the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern.
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Artist : Jeppe Aagaard Andersen (Denmark)
Installation : Additive Reflection 1, 2, 3
About the Installation Additive Reflection 1,2,3 is about colour mixed in the waves of Marina Bay. Colour reflections in water can be magical and the installation aims to show how a very simple installation of 3 coloured lights mirrored in the sea, with the aid of the movement of the waves, can create a myriad of colours and poetic shapes.
What’s Smart ? Brightly coloured low energy LED spotlights create a palette of colours and shapes to contrast against a dark watery background.
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About the Artist Jeppe Aagaard Andersen is a Danish landscape architect, trained in Copenhagen at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He has worked both as a landscape architect and as a free artist and has had his own architectural practice since 1987 where design follows a classical approach towards completely free interpretations of space, form, nature and culture, often on a very large scale. This includes landscape designs for castles and manors, industrial buildings, public administration buildings, museums, hotels and conference centres, private gardens, and public parks across Denmark, Europe, Australia and Asia. All of his works illustrate his acute sense of space and shape, sense of nature and our interaction with it.
Andersen has participated and received awards in a large number of Danish, Scandinavian and international competitions. Most recently, he was awarded first place for the International Hobart Waterfront Competition in Hobart, Australia. Andersen is the recipient of numerous high profile awards including the Eckersberg Medal 2004, The Danish Road Directorate Road Prize 2002, Europa Nostra Heritage Award 2000, NYKREDIT architectural prize 1993.
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Artists : Kurt Laurenz Theinert & Hanfreich (Germany) Installation : Hammerhaus
About the Installation Hammerhaus is 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 with four 20- minute performances nightly.
What's Smart ? The artists use a virtual light piano to generate varying graphic light patterns which are digitally projected creating a 360° panoramic image. 4 LCD projectors are used for an area of approximately 500 sqm.
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Laurenz Theinert on ‘visual piano’ Hanfreich on sampler sequencer
Kurt Laurenz Theinert is a photographer and light artist. His work concentrates on visual experiences that do not refer, as images, to anything. On the contrary, he is striving for an abstract, reductive aesthetic that has ultimately led him – through a wish for more dematerialisation – from photography to light as a medium. With the aid of software developers Roland Blach and Philipp Rahlenbeck, he created an ‘image instrument’ (visual piano) on a MIDI-keyboard basis, that allows him to translate his artistic intentions into live performances while configuring time with light. Close collaborations with sound artists, and several musicians have enriched his work, not only by adding another non-material medium – sound – it has also promoted constant refining and monitoring of his own artistic stance.
Hanfreich studied Jazz as well as Theory of Music and New Media in the College of Music in Stuttgard and was very much involved in electronic music and music production. In 1999, he formed Schnute which combines jazz and modern electronic music and performed in festivals all over Europe. In 2001, he established the legendary Schmollmund Sessions that attract many renowned German musicians. His works have been released through many labels including Lab Records, EDM, BMG, Musicpark, Universal and many others. In 2003, he collaborated with Kurt Laurenz Theinert on project Hammerhaus and the duo have been performing together since in GLOW in Holland and other festivals in Germany, London, Sydney and Barcelona.
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Artists : Mark Hammer & Andre Kecskes (Australia) Installation : Rainbow
About the Installation Rainbow , as its name suggests, is an interactive rainbow of colours projected onto a white surface to form a beautiful night light creation.
What’s Smart? This installation uses minimal power, with the entire installation using less than 20% of the power consumed by one traditional incandescent light bulb.
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About the Artists Mark Hammer has over 25 years’ experience in the lighting industry and has worked in a variety of roles across a large range of lighting applications. His list of work includes some memorable events such as lighting designer for the opening and closing ceremonies for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne 2006, lighting designer for the opening ceremony for the 2003 Rugby World Cup, World Youth Days’ Stations of the Cross, The Dally M Awards, Tropfest and large scale recitals such as Starstruck, and Southern Stars. He was also part of the design team that lit the Sydney Harbour Bridge for its 75th Birthday and was the lighting supervisor for the Edinburgh Military Tattoos’ Salute to Australia. Mark has been the Sydney Arts Festival lighting designer since 2005 and is the current Sydney New Years Eve lighting designer.
Andre Kecskes specialises in designing lighting systems for large-scale events. His list of major lighting projects include lighting director and design for Hyundai A- League Opening, Nicole Kidman’s and Keith Urban’s wedding, OPAL (nuclear reactor) opening ceremony and Songlines 2009.
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Artists : Martin Klaasen, Shane Richardson & Pascal Petitjean (Singapore & Australia) Installation : The Whirlpool
About the Installation The project consists of a number of dynamically illuminated mini domes configured as a whirlpool. With motion sensors, the flow and dwell of people in a defined area will be analysed and used as a trigger to create the lighting effect patterns. The Whirlpool also gives the illusion of water draining away, a reminder to all to be mindful in the use of one of our primary life resources.
What's Smart ? The high energy-saving LEDs and the interactivity and controls assure optimal usage and energy management.
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Martin Klaasen came to Asia more than 20 years ago as an executive lighting designer with Philips Lighting in Singapore. In 1991, he successfully set up his own lighting consultancy company and became a very sought after lighting designer in the region. Amongst his early projects are such icons like the restoration of Raffles Hotel, Singapore and the Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur. Over the years, he has built a reputation as a creative and very well respected lighting designer with many projects throughout the Asia Pacific to his name and has won several lighting design awards for his works.
Pascal Petitjean has lived in Asia for 25 years. He originally came to Asia to develop the market for the lighting pole business. He later invested in a revolutionary lighting balloon concept and developed it into a very successful business in the Asian-Pacific region.
Some of the major projects and events he worked on include the WTO Closing Ceremony, Singapore (1996), the Hong Kong handover ceremony (1997), China’s 50th Anniversary at Tiananmen Square (1999) and the Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony (2000).
In Singapore, the balloon lights are a frequent sight at the Istana garden parties and have been the main lighting for the public grounds and event areas of the world’s first F1 Night Race.
Shane Richardson has a background in show and event lighting with over 15 years’ experience working in Europe as a lighting designer doing large-scale events, television shows, international music festivals and concerts.
He moved back to Australia in 2006 and crossed over into the world of architectural lighting design, working with Martin Klaasen at Lighting Images and using his theatrical experience to explore the possibilities of applying “show and event lighting” in an architectural setting.
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Artist : Mary-Anne Kyriakou (Australia) Installation : Flight to Light
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About the Installation Flight to Light is the artist’s vision of a futurist city where buildings blaze in vivid and vibrant colours from the crystalline/fractal forms in the cubes. Yet, at the same time, it emits calm & tranquility. A single cube could also represent an individual, radiating with emotion from inside their dwelling. The aluminium sheeting surrounding the cubes reminds us that adversity could prevail and of rising waters that could envelope a city.
Flight to Light is showcased at the Fullerton Heritage Gallery as a sneak preview of i Light Marina Bay .
What's Smart ? The installation uses 100W of power in total and its lamp power consumption is equivalent to a 100W GLS lamp/globe.
About the Artist Mary-Anne Kyriakou is the Founder and Artistic Director of Smart Light Sydney and Smart Light Singapore. She is both a lighting designer and music composer and was a recipient of the Peggy Glanville Hicks Music Composer Fellowship. Mary-Anne was the international Lighting Director for Meinhardt Light Art and Founder of the Lighting Division for Meinhardt Consulting Engineers. Her work explores relationships between light and music in architectural space.
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Artists : Mary-Anne Kyriakou & Joe Snell (Australia)
Installation : Doves that Cry
About the Installation Using the qualities of light, sound and black space, this installation creates a room within a room, displaying white-lit dove forms that emerge and pass through a cavernous space.
What's Smart ? Doves that Cry makes use of reflection to increase the impact of the lighting produced by retrofitted LED lamps, thus creating a dramatic effect.
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About the Artists
Mary-Anne Kyriakou is the Founder and Artistic Director of Smart Light Sydney and Smart Light Singapore. She is both a lighting designer and music composer and was a recipient of the Peggy Glanville Hicks Music Composer Fellowship. Mary-Anne was the international Lighting Director for Meinhardt Light Art and Founder of the Lighting Division for Meinhardt Consulting Engineers. Her work explores relationships between light and music in architectural space.
Joe Snell is a Director of Snell Architects, with current projects in hospitality, commercial, retail, housing and residential. In architecture, he focuses on sustainability, gradation, overt surveillance, grayscale, calibration, seen sound, repetition and responsive environments. He has a B.Arch and a B.Sc (Arch) from the University of Sydney. Joe also studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.
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Artists : Meinhardt Light Studio Team, Singapore (Dan Foreman, Cherry Wang & Zi Chang Lee) Installation : WattFish?
About the Installation The installation embraces the theme of the festival; People, Place & Time with a glimpse of the past when Singapore was a fishing village and a glance into the future when modern materials and light sources are powered by the people with human energy.
Five fishing rod poles mounted onto the balustrade of each of the four pods on The Helix Bridge will represent Singapore’s fishing village past. A hand crank electricity generator will form the ‘reel’ and LED lighting will pose as the ‘line’.
The public is encouraged to interact with the installation by winding the reel and, in doing so, illuminate the fibre optic pole, thus creating a Singapore DNA light show on the Bay.
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The installation has been designed to complement the existing DNA form and concept of The Helix Bridge and lighting scene programming on the bridge will be integrated to enhance the visual experience.
What's Smart ? LED light poles mounted to the balustrade are illuminated by human power. The public are encourage to interact with the installation and “wind the reel” to light up the fishing pole, thus learning about the relationship between energy production and lighting energy consumption.
About the Artists Meinhardt Light Studio is an independent specialist lighting design consultancy specializing in architectural and urban integration, innovative natural day lighting and artificial lighting. Their team of lighting designers are experienced and trained predominantly in Architecture, Interior Design, Industrial Design, Engineering and Lighting Design.
Dan Foreman is formally trained in International Business and Trade, Industrial Design, and Design Science Illumination, combined with a strong Interior Design and Marketing background. He has 15 years of experience in the design and construction industry, including extensive international experience in the aviation, commercial, retail and hospitality sectors.
His practical hands on experience with consultants, suppliers, contractors and owners, allows him to understand the creative design process and project implementation from inception to reality. Now specializing in lighting design conceptualization and lighting design management, Dan’s holistic approach to design integrates the environment and community in lighting technology.
Cherry Wang is formally trained in Industrial Design, Architecture and Computer Science. Combined with a strong art and computer background, she has design experience covering various sectors such as automobile, software development, architecture, interior and urban planning.
Her diversified background gives her a unique understanding and viewpoint of the
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projects. Now specialising in Lighting Design, she is currently involved in a number of high profile Architectural lighting design projects in Singapore and China.
Zi Chang is a trainee at Meinhardt Light Studio. He has worked in various environments, and is able to adapt quickly. Now hoping to learn lighting design prior to continuing his studies, he is excited to be part of the design team working on the i Light Marina Bay installation.
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Artist : Michael Lee (Singapore) & Cornelia Erdmann (Hong Kong) Installation : Touch. Do Not Please The Work Of Art
About the Installation To touch light, leave a trace of your existence, a shadow of your silhouette. Using the sense of touch in a light festival is a paradox. Touch is a paradox. On one hand, it is so essential in human existence that babies are known to die without it. On the other hand, human civilisation consists of demarcating what can be touched, who can do the touching and when touching is appropriate. Of course, the word ‘touch’ is also used analogically to refer to the stirring of emotions. Across history and culture, such moments have been represented through the visualization of light that connects the subject to the object of such emotional touch.
The installation aims at exploring the meanings of touch in life and art. The sentence, "Touch. Do Not Please The Work of Art" is applied on the long wall using glow-in-the- dark-paint. In the day, only the title of the work as a protrusion on the wall is visible and touchable. At night time, the words come to life, they glow. Stroboscope spotlights highlight the passage for an instant every 30 seconds. The words light up and shine. Passers-by, when touching, looking or just passing the artwork, will cast their silhouettes and shadows onto the installation. They will leave an instant personal graffiti behind.
What’s Smart? The artists work with illuminant and shadow effects, using glow-in-the-dark paint. Only a flashing light, lit for a second, is needed to create the light effects. The light and the shadows from passers-by create an ever-changing interactive piece.
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About the Artists Michael Lee (b. 1972, Singapore) received his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Communication Studies from Nanyang Technological University in 2001 and 1997 respectively. He is an artist and curator based in Singapore. His research addresses representations of the built environment, especially the contexts and implications of its lost elements. His observations are mainly transformed into objects, diagrams, situations, curations or essays. His exhibition/festival participations include The 8th Shanghai Biennale 2010 (Shanghai Art Museum), The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial 2008 (Independent Projects section; Guangdong Museum of Art), The 2005 World Exposition (Singapore Pavilion; Nagoya) and International Film & Video Association Film Award & Festival 1997 (Winner, Experimental Category;Texas). His curatorial projects include Between, Beside, Beyond: Daniel Libeskind's Reflections and Key Works 1989-2014 (Singapore Art Museum, 2007). His accolades include the Young Artist Award (Visual Arts) 2005, conferred by the National Arts Council, Singapore.
Cornelia Erdmann was born and brought up in Frankfurt, Germany. She received a Master's degree in architecture in 2002 and an MFA in Public Art in 2005 from Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. In 2006 she moved to Hong Kong where she continues her art and design practice. She is an artist, she curates and designs with a passion for aesthetics. In her projects she is mainly interested in the interaction of space and society, scrutinising aspects of urbanity and life style – always bearing a small smile along the way. Her public artworks are site-specific and/or relate to site- specific topics. She likes to work with electronic technology, light and mixed media, to produce art pieces as different as interactive installations, sculptures and interventions. Her works have been shown in international galleries, film festivals and exhibitions, such as in the Kunstraum Bethanien and Gallery Sleeping Dogs, Berlin, Gallery Threewalls, Chicago, Fondazione Bevilacqua, Venice, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Japan or in the KunstFilm Biennale at the Art Cologne, at Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong Kong, and the Jendela Artspace, The Esplanade, Singapore. She has realised several permanent public artworks in locations such as the Times Square in Hong Kong or in a hotel In Suzhou, China.
Cornelia and Michael have previously collaborated on different projects, one of which is the book Preoccupations: Things Artists Do Anyway (2008), an anthology of 111 artist’s writings on their obsessions.
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Artists : OCUBO, Nuno Maya (Portugal) & Carole Purnelle (Belgium) Installation : Human Tiles
About the Installation Human Tiles is an interactive installation where the public has the key role. The video camera captures, in real time, the movement of people in the vicinity, allowing and encouraging the public to participate by expressing themselves.
Using video projectors, the artists cover specific parts of a building’s façade with virtual tiles. These tiles are made of a real-time projection of both the movement and the colour of the audience’s clothes, which have also been captured on video in real time. This creates a spectacular effect of animated patterns.
What's Smart ? The artists create interactive changing patterns of light on the wall of a building using just a single light source from a projector.
About the Artists OCUBO is a multimedia atelier based in Sintra, Portugal. It is managed by Portuguese artist Nuno Maya and Belgian artist Carole Purnelle. Their focus is creating innovative public cultural projects, combining fine arts with multimedia arts. Their interactive modules encourage public participation by manipulating technological interfaces that bridge the real and the virtual worlds.
From video to photography, from physical to virtual installations that are both static and interactive, multimedia plays a central role in all of the artists’ projects. Apart from Portugal, they have exhibited in Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Australia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Spain.
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Artists : Pascal Petitjean & Aamer Taher (Singapore) Installation : JELLIGHT
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About the Installation Imagine the jellyfish deciding to leave our overly 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.
What's Smart ? The technology/design is simple, sophisticated and revolutionary with its origin based on a helium/air filled balloon and the idea of introducing just light bulbs to create a 360- degree non-glare lighting source. The materials used are durable, resistant to tears, creasing, heat, flame and ultra violet rays. The lighting output is efficient with energy saving light bulbs, giving direct illumination.
About the Artists Pascal Petitjean, an engineer by training, co-founded and introduced a new concept for indoor and outdoor lighting in 1992, The Lighting Balloon. His passion over the years in developing new products and applications have catapulted him to a leading artist in Light Design and Installation.
He is the Managing Director of Partex International Pte Ltd, incorporated in Singapore in 1993. It started out with lighting events & parties and moved quickly on to light movie/commercial shoots like “The Titanic’, “Mission Impossible 2” and many more global projects including the 1996 World Trade Organisation’s Closing Ceremony in Singapore, Official Ceremony for the Hong Kong Hand-over in 1997, China’s 50th Anniversary in Tiananmen Square in 1999, the Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony in 2000, the inaugural prestigious Formula 1 Night Race in Singapore in 2008 and the Light Installation for the Festival Square in Melbourne in 2010.
Aamer Taher is an Architect and the Principal of Aamer Architects and Director of Aamer Taher Design Studio Pte Ltd (ATDS). He studied Architecture at the National University of Singapore and established his company in 1994, two years upon his return to Singapore from London, where he obtained his Master of Architecture degree at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and practiced with several firms including the
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prestigious Michael Hopkins and Associates. Mr Aamer is a Council member of the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) and is a part-time design tutor in the School of Architecture in the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Aamer Architects is a small architectural firm that views design as finding an ideal solution to the combination of factors that include site, culture and climate, structure and services with an economy of means to arrive at an aesthetic whole. Aamer aims to reconcile function and beauty in design backed by strong service and management support.
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Artist : Pitupong Chaowakul (Thailand) Installation : Animal Tree
About the Installation The design of Animal Tree is a criticism of typical public lighting features that, for most of the time, lack emotion. The fact is that we are living in a world in which there are too many stressful factors. Can our environment be composed of more joyful objects?
Animal Tree is a lamp pole that can be installed in any public space. The shed of the lamp is composed of 512 pieces of orange happy bears which are translucent coin- collecting containers for children. The operation of the Animal Tree is simple; it offers shade during daytime and emits light at night.
The Animal Tree promotes the idea that the future can rely on simplicity and emotions, rather than complex electrical circuits which require a lot of maintenance. Simply pay more attention to joyfulness as well as to aesthetics and technology.
What's Smart ? The lamp pole is installed with the circular solar cell unit on top. It stores enough electricity to a battery to power 6 of 28 Watt tubular T5 bulbs placed in the centre of the circular tube.
About the Artist Pitupong Chaowakul has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Chulalongkorn
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University in Bangkok and a Master of Excellence in Architecture degree from Rotterdam University, Netherlands. He has a broad-based discipline of work from architecture to event design. He was shortlisted for the Rotterdam Stadhuis (City hall) Design competition in the Netherlands, 2002, and received the Honorable Prize in the Colourban Nippon Paint Idea competition in Bangkok, 2004, of which the subject was an experiment on rethinking the “Pra Athit” area, a very old neighborhood in Bangkok.
His work includes “Island 2008” at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK 2008 which is a 50-square-metre imaginary island built in the gallery for people to leave messages and stickers of different shapes on. Some of his other works include Harbormall Laemchabang , Thailand, 2009, and Centerpoint at Central world Bangkok, Thailand 2009.
Pitupong established the Supermachine studio in 2009. Supermachine’s main discipline is architecture, but it also does other work which involves design and art, such as art installations, interior design, event design, product design and exhibition design.
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Artist : Ron Gilad presented by Flos (Singapore) Installation : Wall Piercing
About the Installation Wall Piercing consists of a hoop lodged shallowly in the wall and ringed with RGB Light Emitting Diodes (LED). This means that the lamp forms a halo around itself, diffusing its own shadow around it as if shrouded in a light tulle fog. By linking multiple units, a morphing textile can be woven in any pattern desired across the wall or ceiling with each light programmed to serve as a single pixel in the larger image. The entire wall becomes a low-resolution screen, altering the appearance and mood of its environment profoundly with each shift in the color and intensity of light.
What's Smart ? The installation uses energy efficient LED colour changing lamps as a light source, configured to create a 3D living wall effect.
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About the artist
Ron Gilad was born in Tel Aviv in 1972. Ron Gilad graduated with a degree in industrial design from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Israel. From 1999-2001 he taught 3D Design at the Shenkar Academy of Engineering & Design, during which time he developed one of a kind objects which he later exhibited at shows. In 2001 he moved to New York and co-founded Designfenzider from where he designs, produces and distributes his works around the world. In 2006 he began to teach at the Pratt Institute in NYC.
His designs are functional and minimalist into which he puts his humour, elegance and sophisticated wit. He likes to deconstruct the function of an object down to its basics. He frequently starts with a found object which he reinterprets into something else. He has an innate ability to combine many materials into a harmonious style. Many of his pieces such as his vases are one of a kind.
His work is part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as well as private collections. He has been written about in magazines such as Ultimate New York Design, TeNeues publications in Spain, Design Life Now, National Design Triennial, Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum publications in USA, Le Design and Filipacchi publications in France.
Flos recently displayed Wall Piercing at Super Studio, Via Tortona in Milan.
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Artists : Sascha Crocker & Andrew Daly (Australia) Installation : Lumenocity Singapore
About the Installation Lumenocity Singapore is an abstract energy consumption map of the Singapore Central Business District (CBD). The colour of the lanterns that make up the miniature city correlate to the amount of energy consumed and the light pollution emitted by a particular city block.
The installation documents and draws attention to the costs of inefficient methods of lighting the city, both in terms of energy and our diminishing view of the night sky.
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As the street and building lights of the CBD are switched on for the evening, the installation, too, is illuminated by the soft glow of energy-efficient fluorescents, programmed to simulate a real-time relationship with the city around it and consuming less energy than the street and ambient lighting which would normally light the area.
As visitors approach and wander through the luminous city, a gentle hum surrounds and intensifies. The 'hum' of the lanterns builds to a chorus and, for those standing amidst the installation, will be a counterpoint to the delicate appearance of the miniature CBD – a salient reminder of the price of the city's luminous beauty.
What's Smart ? The installation uses fluorescent lighting tubes as they are highly efficient and effective with the least environmental impact.
About the Artists Following completion of her Masters’ dissertation at the University of New South Wales and curatorial placement at Tate Modern, Sascha Crocker returned to Sydney to undertake a Bachelor of Design Architecture (Honours) at The University of Sydney. She has worked on exhibitions in London, Sydney and Tokyo, including 'Thinking Drawing/Working Drawing' an international retrospective of Australian architect, Glenn Murcutt. A recipient of the Byera Hadley and Diana Inglis Carment Scholarships, Sascha recently completed a study trip to Europe researching international architecture centres. She is currently completing her Masters Degree (USYD) and curating an exhibition of the work of Australian architect, Ken Woolley for 2011.
Andrew Daly completed his Bachelor of Design in Architecture degree at the University of Sydney and was awarded the University Medal in the course of his study. Andrew has also studied at London's Architectural Association and is presently completing his Master’s Degree at the University of Sydney. In addition to his study, Andrew has worked for Johnson Pilton Walker and Tanner Architects in Sydney and recently exhibited his sculpture "I See You, You See Me" at a small Sydney exhibition called 'Through the Frame'.
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Artists : Studio KYbra (Australia & Germany) Installation : Flora Magica
About the Installation The Maybank building is part of the cosmopolitan world of city skyscrapers, economic growth and technical innovation whilst the world of the natural environment is complex and delicate. The installation is a story about the two worlds existing harmoniously in balance, where humanity and strong sustainable growth exist side by side.
The images showcase phases of plant growth, depicting transformations through the mysterious power of the rising moon
By taking time and taking care to plant what is needed for the soul, goodness will be harvested to nourish our minds, body and city and natural environments. By the light of the full moon, the city buildings will sleep and the people of the city can stroll and watch the beauty of the night garden.
What’s Smart ? The installation promotes dark city skies as there is no spillage or stray lights into the night sky or onto surrounding buildings.
About the artists
Studio KYbra, founded by Mary Anne Kyriakou and Ingo Bracke, is a combination of their former institutions; MAK Productions, Sydney and Atelier LichtRaumKunst, Germany.
Together the Directors have 30 years of international professional experience in light design, light art and architectural design.
The work of Studio KYbra concentrates on the connectional and practical relationship between the media such as light, sound and space, to be used in the realisation of artistically or functional design orientated projects. Their field of work includes
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architectural lighting, urban lighting, theatre lighting and light art design as well as exhibition design, set design for theatre, ballet, opera, art installations and land art.
Recent works include the German stock exchange, Frankfurt (light sound installation), the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney (light video installation & live performance), the Loreley Rock, Rhine Valley, Germany (curatorship, light installation & performance) and lighting design projects for private and public customers, like several jewellery stores. Current works under construction are a light installation for the “Fritz-Walter-Stadion” Kaiserslautern, Germany as well as new light works in Sydney and Singapore.
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Artists : Aw Tee Hong (Singapore) for the original sculpture Studio KYbra for light work (Australia & Germany) Installation : The River Merchants
About the Installation The River Merchants sculpture by renowned Singapore artist Aw Tee Hong sits on the riverbank outside the Maybank building. For the Festival, it will be adorned in lights.
What's Smart ? The lighting feature is energy-efficient LEDs.
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Artists : Sun Yu Li, Kenny Eng & Allan Lim (Singapore) Installation : The Living! Project
About the Installation This light art sculpture created by renowned Singapore artist Sun Yu Li aims to invoke a sense of beauty and urban sustainability amongst Singaporeans.
The Living! Project will be built with 3,000 recycled plastic cups and low energy LED lights. The installation will ‘grow’ with the help of students and the community who will be encouraged to add to the installation on a daily basis.
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What’s Smart ? The installation comprises recycled materials and energy-efficient LED lights to create a living sculpture. The lights and sound equipment will be powered by Alpha Biodiesel generators.
About the artists Sun Yu Li’s sculptures are more than mere expressions of simple abstract forms. His sculptures articulate his attempts to concretise retrospective series of thoughts through the Universal Language – an all-encompassing mode that explains the origin of life from a dot.
Profoundly simple, he hopes to touch that first instance when concept and form meet, in order to take people back to the source when man became conscious of his own existence. His works inquire into the basic state of forms that grasp the consciousness of a primitive civilisation, personifying the origin of aesthetics.
Sun Yu Li has been actively involved in the Singapore and regional arts scene for the last 20 over years. His sculptures and artworks can be found in many strategic locations around Singapore, as well as in various foreign countries. Among his most notable creations is the 'Harmony' sculpture – a 12 meter high stainless steel piece – crafted for the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (CS-SIP) in 2001 to symbolize close bilateral relations.
‘Harmony’ is featured on the national stamps of both China and Singapore. The Singapore Mint has also issued a set of commemorative coins featuring this monumental piece of art.
Kenny Eng has always been in the century-old family business of gardens, floral art and landscaping for as far as he can remember. Growing up, Kenny was constantly exposed to the nursery and interacting with customers in the showroom – the growing years thus groomed him into the entrepreneur that he is today.
Gardenasia (GA) is a nature-based event company and imbues the philosophy of the parent Nyee Phoe Group in harnessing elements of nature by letting nature inspire lifestyles . Kenny broke new grounds in the industry by creating several new initiatives such as Gardenasiakids, which leads the charge into experiential learning
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opportunities for children, and Artwine, a symbiotic product line that seamlessly weaves the fabric of sensorial experiences of art, wine and music into a uniquely Singaporean package. GA has carved a niche for itself as a nature-inspired events company, offering innovative events experiences and creative event marketing concepts to their clientele.
Allan Lim graduated from Nanyang Technological University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Engineering Degree. Since then, he has embarked on start-up projects varying from microbial research to biodegradable plastics. In 2005, he was awarded the Spirit of Enterprise Award by President S R Nathan for his enterprising spirit and his efforts in promoting the enterprising spirit to the youth. Allan has served as on the panel of judges for Startup@Singapore business plan competition and has mentored youth groups hoping to start enterprises in Singapore.
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Artist : TILT (France) Installation : My Public Garden
About the Installation My Public Garden , one of the artistic highlights of i Light Marina Bay light art festival, will transform The Promontory@Marina Bay into a playful and festive park full of fanciful plants and enchanted flowers come October 15.
Comprising a total of 29 light sculptures of six different plants and floral varieties, the installation forms part of the Festival’s Light Walk together with over 20 other dynamic light art installations and sculptures as well as interactive and performance- based art displays by both local and international design luminaries.
The light sculptures are large artworks, the smallest being 3.5m tall and the largest as tall as 11m, creating a beautiful landscape even from a distance, offering an interplay of perspectives and beckoning the public to enjoy an intimate stroll among the immense, alluring bouquets.
My Public Garden was one of the anchor installations at Fete des Lumieres 2009 – one of the world’s largest and most established light festivals, which welcomes over four million visitors annually. It is the first time that an Asian country is playing host to
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the installation, and it further signifies the close ties between Singapore and Lyon in the promotion of cultural exchange.
At i Light Marina Bay : 6 Herbums Follus 1 Echinodermus 3 Pissenlits (Dandelions) 6 Ombrellums 10 Ros’Ô (reeds) 3 Carboniums
What’s Smart ? TILT has consistently worked on their oldest art installations to reduce energy usage. For example, the original 7.5m tall Herbum Follus consumed 4,100W but now uses only 700W, without having to compromise on the size and design. The 3.5m tall and 3m wide Carbonium has a total consumption of 750W from 50 tungsten lamps and the 11m tall and 12m wide Echinodermus uses 2,760W, which is only about the energy consumption of a deep fryer. The 10m tall and 5m wide Pissenlit with its gas- discharge lamp and its low-energy bulbs uses no more than 950W, which is less than what a traditional stage projector would require. The installation is powered by bio- diesel generators.
About the Artists Established by François Fouilhé and Jean-Baptiste Laude in 2001, both professional lighting technicians, TILT is a non-profit organization with the goal of highlighting the artistic possibilities of light.
TILT has created illuminated sculptures, sceneries for cultural centres including museums, contemporary art exhibits, national events, festivals, and light installations for artistic events such as the “Fête des Lumières” (The Festival of Lights) in Lyon, Nuit Blanche (White Night Festival) in Paris, Arbres et Lumières (Lights and Trees Festival) in Geneva. TILT works in natural spaces as well as in urban settings, and invests in both private and public spaces.
TILT takes pride in their ability to develop the two fundamental features of light creation: creating luminous objects themselves and, through careful set-up and spacing, creating illuminated universes. Not limited to innovations in design and technology, these sculptures may be everyday objects, yet when viewed with a touch of fantasy, they result in surprising illuminated creations.
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Artist : Warren Langley (Australia) Installation : Singapora-Flora
About the Installation Singapore-Flora is part of a series of works which uses an image of a huge steel vase with varying sculptural lighting effects alluding to an assemblage of flowers within. Standing between 8 to 12 metres high, each work is a different exploration of sculptural lighting effects with the notion that light has both line and volume as qualities.
The work which has an audience-friendly playful sensibility, is intended to provide both a day and night feature and is most at home in an area of high pedestrian activity.
What’s Smart ? The light sculpture uses low energy LEDs as its light source.
About the Artist Warren Langley has some 30 years of experience in public artworks. Increasingly, these works have used light as a principal component. Projects have included major commissioned artworks for public, private and corporate situations throughout Australia and overseas.
In 1996 he was awarded a Fellowship by the Australia Council for the Arts. In 2002 and 2005, he was a finalist for the Lempriere National Sculpture Award. Warren has achieved international recognition for large-scale works using glass and/or light as his preferred materials. Most recently, in a spectacular extrapolation of the properties of these materials, he used large bodies of water and other landscape components in conjunction with remote source lighting technology to create a series of large scale light sculptures loosely titled light and landscape.
His recent projects include major public artworks in light for the cities of Sydney and Canberra, a huge light painting for the Australian Pavilion at the Shanghai World, Smart Light Sydney 2009 and a light installation at the 2010 Winter Olympics Village in Vancouver BC.
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Artist : Vellachi Ganesan (Singapore) Installation : the light within
About the Installation Amidst the chaos and distractions that make up our city life, the light within is a simple sculpture that offers a refuge, a resting place for the passer-by. There is nothing to see or do, but simply to be . Inspired by the light of the womb, the space is a memory of the very first human experience each of us has had. It is a space for the silence of thought, the rhythm our breath brings and a moment to embrace our own light within .
What’s Smart ? There can be no better light than natural light and we are hardly aware of its presence. the light within removes all other distractions and allows one to be aware of and enjoy the beauty of the night sky and moonlight.
About the Artist Born and bred locally, Vellachi Ganesan has a Bachelors degree in Architecture from the National University of Singapore and a Masters degree in Architectural Lighting Design from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Having just graduated in April 2010, she is fresh into the industry working for renowned lighting design company Lighting Planners Associates.
While her lighting design career is just starting, the relationship she has had with light and art has been much longer. Light is an element that has always been close to her heart and has been a subject of her exploration and fascination. The main belief that fuels her is that light is an inextricably intertwined part of our existence, and it is exactly that she wants to express in her work.
This sculpture is the second in the light within series, after the first was made in snow in the Arctic circle in northern Sweden. She has also written an academic work titled the light within .
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Artists : WY-TO Architects (Yann Follain & Pauline Gaudry, Singapore) Installation : A Blue Mirage in the City of Light
About the Installation In the day the city enjoys the brilliance of sunlight and at night, illuminations engulf the metropolis, and the iconic buildings and landmarks are washed by a warm golden tinge. Interpreting the creative nature of light, the installation pays respect to its environment while providing an adornment.
A Blue Mirage in the City of Light depicts a gem that reflects light from both the natural and artificial light sources present at Marina Bay. Be it day or night, the installation creates prismatic reflections of the surrounding cityscape, thus providing people with a memorable experience.
What’s Smart ? 16 ensembles of 2-metre tall 20/20 laminated glass are installed, offset and rotated along two facing lines. One external side of each glazing ensemble is highly reflective, while the PVB interlayer has a specific polarizing treatment.
A line of artificial blue cold light is added onto one edge of each acrylic ensemble. The lighting feature used will be LEDs, as it has a low energy consumption rate and running costs.
About the Artists The free movement of ideas, cultures and practices constitute a stimulating basis to create, modify, innovate and build. It is within this dynamic, inspiring, and multi- disciplinary framework that WY-TO carries out its activities.
The founders' constant search for personal and cultural enrichment has allowed WY- TO to push the boundaries of its profession and shaped the identities of Pauline Gaudry and Yann Follain through workshops, professional and personal experiences in Hong Kong, India, Indonesia and Singapore.
Their momentum is ever-increasing, thanks to various collaborations in multi-cultural
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settings, notably in Singapore with the project of the future National Art Gallery.
WY-TO’s objective is to exploit this knowledge and extend further the scope and scale of their activities, experimenting without geographic or other types of constraints.
At WY-TO, the use of photography, graphic design and synthetic materials are essential to the process of creation. As well as giving shape to a project, this approach allows them to address the constraints creatively: colours, light, contours, and simplicity of expression are fully integrated into their approach.
Their objective: to develop architecture at the service of everyday life as well as exceptional occasions; functionality and dreams.
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Artist : Zymryte Hoxhaj (Germany) Installation : All of us
About the Installation This installation consists of 1000 handmade silk-canvas puppets with eyes for heads printed in phosphorescent colour to remind us of our responsibility to keep watch and prevent pollution of our waterways and public areas.
What's Smart ? The artist uses a low energy UV light..
About the Artist Designer Zymryte Hoxhaj, of Kosovo-Albanian heritage, was born in Germany and has just completed her thesis in media art, design and graphic design at the school of fine arts, Hochschule der Bildenden Kunste Saar, in Saarbrucken.
The projects which Zymryte has been part of include the Capsuleseries “Private View Miss Marple No 1” in London which is a video animation, the Für die Katz Guerilla Protest series of posters, the walkable fairy tale ‘Dance with the sheepman’ video installation based on Haruki Murakami‘s book of the same title, Rundgang
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Exhibition “e dehur jam” (Darkcity), Tag X Casa Azul and Angezettelt Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken Mar. ####################
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