Vivid Sydney

It’s all happening in Sydney at the moment.  The Vivid Sydney festival, an initiative of the City of Sydney is being called (by the organisers) “biggest international music and light festival in the Southern Hemisphere”.
The festival comprises some pretty cool events:  Sydney Opera House presents Luminous – a festival of music, debate, light and performance. Curated by Brian Eno featuring a plethora of music acts alongside public talks and spectacular light and art installations from May 28 to June 14.

Watch Curator Brian Eno talk about Luminous.

Running concurrently with Luminous, also part of the festival, is Smart Light Sydney which is a series of dynamic light art sculptures located at the harbour precinct from Sydney Observatory, around the Rocks and Circular Quay to Sydney Opera House.

In the first of a series of unbuilt works which we think would have been amazing, check out Electrolight’s entry for Smart Light.  With the theme being “memories from the past” we were interested in the pre-colonial history of the harbour and conceived of a traditional canoe made from light, some 6m in length, sitting on the harbour at Campbell’s Cove.   Check out our entry below…