Light Games: the First Russian Lights Festival "LumiFest" Coming to St. Petersburg
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Can public lighting surprise and delight? After visiting urban lights festival "LumiFest" all St. Petersburg dwellers will give an affirmative answer. “LumiFest” will be held in Aleksandrovsky Park near subway station “Gorkovskaya” on October, 8-9. Natalya Bystryantseva, associate professor and head of “Creative Light Design School” of ITMO University, shared how light installations will illuminate the Park and elevations of surrounding buildings.
What inspired you to organize this festival?
We initiated a research-to-practice conference "Light Design 2014" last year. Back then we aimed to define a concept "light design" and learn what methods are used, what schools and experts are leaders of light design promotion. Then we understood that apart from theoretical skills we have to develop hands-on experience forming “market of ideas”. It was also necessary to demonstrate achievements of leading Russian light designers. Thus an open-air festival is the best way to do that. It is also a wonderful opportunity to rethink a public lightning problem. It is the first large light festival in Russia. We have never organized such events. That is why we looked up to European light festivals such as French festival "Fête des lumières."
What is light installation?
It is an original technical solution, which reveals some unusual aspects of common things assigning them a specific meaning. However the question is how this installation affects us. Personally I visited more than 15 festivals but I remember only 3 or 4 the most interesting installations.
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