Lighting&Sound America Online - News: The New York Festival of Light (NYFOL) announces New York City's first annual New York Festival of Light, a three-night event - Thursday through Saturday, November 6 -8, 2014 - that celebrates light, in all of its extraordinary incarnations. New York now joins the ranks of major cities such as Berlin, London, Lyon, Montreal, and Sydney that have festivals of light. The festival is free and open to the public.
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I am always interested to read about lighting projects that is art with light on its own, independent of theater. The title "Lighting Designer" at least for me has the connotation of a theater professional, but I forget that a good deal of the lighting work that goes on is outside of theater, architectural, or event based lighting. Whenever I do think of the distinction between the different kinds of lighting, I always think of people trained in theater that just do other kinds of art. It would be interesting to have a career in stand alone light art.
It's awesome to read about lighting designers who are doing lighting purely for the artistic effect. Not that theater isn't artist or anything, because it is, but to just have the pure lighting is a different issue. I, like Chris, forget that lighting designers aren't just for the theatre. I think I've been spending too much time with the theatre because everything relates to the theatre. To that extent it makes reading about people who have taken something that I would think is just for the theatre doing something completely different. It's like the opposite what Kevin Hines is always saying- we take something normal and change it to our own evil purposes.
It is so exciting to hear about lighting events that are happening and not just for theater. This sounds like a really cool event that has a lot to offer to lighting fans and the average joe. It is really great that they are creating a show like this that lets people experience lighting in a setting that does not require them to se a piece of theater. i think the idea of having to sit and watch a show for two hours turns some people off from what lighting is. Lighting shows like this open up a whole new experience for people and is a could potentially be a new experience for the designers.
What?! This sounds amazing! We should definitely get off a few days from school to go see this (haha). Opportunities like this are why I sometimes wish our school was located in a bigger city. Granted, there are plenty of opportunities for art exploration here in Pittsburgh, but I feel like those opportunities might as well be in New York because we hardly have any time to go explore the city of Pittsburgh. I'm glad that this article was posted on the blog because it shows how our school is not only focused on theatrical art, but is influenced by all kinds of installation and non-traditional art forms. Sometimes I feel that installation art can say more than an actually performance. I would love to go see this if we had the time!
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