Amsterdam Light Festival
Every winter a new edition of Amsterdam Light Festival is organized, with artworks that are created especially for the festival. The annual Amsterdam Light Festival (ALF) illuminates the city with brilliant works of light art. Each year, hundreds of ideas are submitted by designers, architects and artists from around the world. A selection committee usually chooses about 30 artworks that make up the festival’s installations. In collaboration with…
World's Largest Kaleidoscope
Stage architecture studio Stufish has built what it says is the world's largest kaleidoscope — a mirrored installation that shows ever-shifting images of Saudi Arabia. Measuring 40 meters long and 6 meters high, Stufish's kaleidoscope was installed at the 2022 LEAP technology conference in Riyadh and provided guests with a walk-through, immersive experience. Titled LEAPscape, the kaleidoscope was made of tensioned mirror foil and LED tiles on its floor and end…
Dustin Yellin's Frozen Cinema
Dustin Yellin (B. 1975, Los Angeles) is a contemporary artist living in Brooklyn, NY. He is known for his work in which the artist embeds "hundreds of little pictures, drawings and images clipped out of magazines, art books and the like" to form complex and intricate tableaux in miniature. Dustin Yellin is as known for his image-rich sculptures as he is for his entrepreneurship, reflected in his contemporary art hub, Pioneer Works, his magazine of…
Studio Roosegaarde
Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde (1979) is a creative maker of social designs which explore the relation between people, technology and space. Daan and his team of designers and engineers connect people and technology in artworks that improve daily life in urban environments, spark imagination and fight the climate crisis. Clean air, clean water, clean energy, and clean space are their new values and light is their language. He founded Studio Roosegaarde in 2007.…
Jen Lewin, Renowned New Media and Interactive Sculptor
Jen Lewin is an American installation artist who is known around the world for her public, interactive light landscapes. As visitors walk, dance, jump and play across her installations, they are able to generate an infinite amount of changes to the works’ colors and reflections. Inspired by light and reflection that occurs in nature, Lewin’s installations—though often temporary—are always site specific and designed to interact within their natural environment. Lewin has shown that art has…
