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