More details from the New York Festival of Light (www.nyfol.org):
NEW YORK – October 3, 2014 – 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.
The festival, which is held in partnership with the DUMBO Improvement District, features a curated collection of lighting installations created by local and internationally renowned lighting designers, visual and performing artists, and technologists who work within the medium of light. The spectacle takes place in the Archway under the Manhattan Bridge and in the surrounding plaza space.
Approximately ten interactive, projection, and static lighting installations, will take part in NYFOL 2014.
Highlights include:
Sounds of Nature – Tupac Martir, visual artist and production designer, and lighting director for Elton John, Beyoncé, Sting, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, to name a few, has created an installation for the plaza that is composed of umbrellas that and LEDs that are triggered by sensors sensitive to the weather, and the movement of the people to create different patterns of sound and light.
Laser Light Show – Howard Ungerleider, whose amazing architectural lighting, stage lighting, and set design presents a high-powered laser light show, complete with smoke, in the Archway.
Initiations – 3_Search a creative collective is curating a projection mapped video series that explores the transitory place where endings and beginnings overlap in perpetual evolution, and incorporates works by international projections mappers including from Glowing Bulbs, Integrated Visions, dandelion & burdock and others on the facade of the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage.
In addition NYFOL 2014 will feature illuminated ice sculptures, performances by iLuminate, a DJ, food trucks, and hundreds of visitors. Hours are 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Thursday and 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
NYFOL is the brainchild of Liam O’Braion, a producer of large-scale entertainment events and Ira Levy, an award-winning New York City-based lighting designers. On October 24, 2013, NYFOL produced ‘First Light’ at the Elizabeth Street Garden in NoLIta. Hundreds of New Yorkers attended and had the opportunity to experience in microcosm, what will be seen at NYFOL 2014 in DUMBO.
“NYFOL 2014 will transform the nightscape of DUMBO into a magical place,” says Liam O’Braion, co-founder of the festival, and festival of light will definitely fill a void in the city’s cultural calendar.”
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More details from event sponsor Elation Professional (www.elationlighting.com):
Elation Professional Sponsors of First New York Festival of Light
BROOKLYN, NY — New York City is finally getting a lighting festival to call its own and Elation Professional is proud to be a “Megawatt Sponsor” of the inaugural event. Co-founded by Ira Levy and Liam O’Braion, the first annual New York Festival of Light (NYFOL) will take place November 6-8 in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York.
“We are extremely happy to be lending our support to this inaugural event through our sponsorship,” stated Eric Loader, Elation Professional Sales Director. “NYFOL is a milestone event in the history of our industry, as well as the history of New York City, and we are proud to be a part of it. Ira and Liam’s vision for a lighting festival in New York is worthy of everyone’s support and we wish it the best of luck.”
The New York Festival of Light takes its place alongside other well-known lighting festivals in major cities around the world such as Berlin, London, Lyon, Montreal, and Sydney. NYFOL will feature a wide variety of lighting installations from sculptures to interactive displays to projection mapping and will provide a unique experience for residents and visiting artists not to mention the huge number of tourists that visit the city. Run by the New York Festival of Light Organization, a non-profit art group, the festival is free and open to the public.
