Held at Sydney Customs House, a celebration of Smart Light Cities was the theme of the night for the launch of the SuperLux book and exhibition.
October 19th, 2015
“Let’s celebrate the world’s biggest new art movement of the early 21st century … Smart Light Cities,” proposed editor-curator Davina Jackson to guests attending last week’s launch of the SuperLux book and exhibition at Sydney’s Customs House.
More than 200 digital and lighting design experts applauded the City of Sydney’s new show, which comprises five LED light art and architectural works (by Mike Day with his UTS students, Mary-Anne Kyriakou, Damian Gascoigne and Alan Rose), 10 screens of videos surveying outstanding international examples of urban light art, and more than 20 large photographic panels of iconic architectural lighting transformations.
The videos and photo panels highlighted recent international light artworks surveyed in SuperLux: Smart Light Art, Design and Architecture for Cities – a new monograph edited by Jackson for publishers Thames and Hudson. Designed and produced with Deuce Design, MindConsole and DataScene, the exhibition themes include: City Screens, Architectural Light, Festivities/Fantasies, Transit Scenes, Metroscapes, Monumental Movies, Towers of Lustre and a historical ‘Timeline of Luminous Structures’.
Marking the 10th anniversary of the 2005 relaunch of Customs House as a 21st century information centre, the venue manager, Jennifer Kwok, noted that its colonial sandstone facade had become a magnet for digital artists using sophisticated 3D video projection mapping systems, using a virtual (wireframe) computer model developed using 3D laser scans of the real building.
Sydney’s Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, later applauded the exhibition. “The growth of smart lighting as a creative field has really changed the role of light in our cities at night, inspiring us to think differently about how we illuminate public spaces. This SuperLux show pushes the boundaries of what’s possible and encourages us to use our limited resources sustainably.”
The SuperLux book is for sale at Berkelouw and other booksellers.
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