Virtual Symposium: Light installations, magic and heritage

Dr Jane Lovell

This online  symposium aims to bring together academics and practitioners who research and practice in the field of light projection.

We hope you can join us to consider how light installations draw on the future while recreating the past. The link to the meeting is here: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7251288249?pwd=UmZKaGNzREdVUG12Mk1LdjZNNmNLdz09 Meeting ID: 725 128 8249 Password: 1llum1n4t3The symposium brings together academics and practitioners who research and practice in the field of light projection and digital heritage. Speakers include Projection Studios (Northern Lights, Crown of Light) Heinrich and Palmer (Ship of the Gods, Floe, Travelling Light) and Cheriton Light Festival.Light festivals and installations involve local communities while having a significant effect on the visitor economy, generating up to £1.1 billion in the UK (Guo, Lin, Meng &amp; Zhao, 2011). Over one hundred festivals take place globally (Giordano and Ong, 2017) from Lyons and Sydney to Lumiere, the biannual festival of light which is held in Durham, estimates that it has received 1 million visitors to the festival since 2009, when the event began. Festivals such as Vivid illuminate the landmarks of capital cities, but the malleability of projection mapping means that installations are adapted to any environment, from hyperreal spectaculars to suburbs and forests to coastlines. Light festivals achieve far more than generating income for the visitor economy, they add atmosphere by making the ordinary extraordinary (Edensor, 2012; Edensor, 2015; Edensor and Sumartojo, 2018; Lovell and Griffin, 2018). They alter fragile historic environments, reinventing intangible cultural heritage and re-imagining local history, folklore and myth. These highly creative and transfixing installations, often involving public participation and transformational communal experiences. The hyperreality and sheer magic of projection mapping software and animation techniques can create the most authentic and enchanting of sensations (Lovell, 2018; Lovell and Griffin, 2018).Edensor, T. (2012). Illuminated atmospheres: Anticipating and reproducing the flow of affective experience in Blackpool. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 30(6), 1103–1122. Edensor, T. (2015) ‘Light design and atmosphere’. Visual Communication, 14(3), pp.331-350.Edensor, T. &amp; Sumartojo, S. (2018). Reconfiguring familiar worlds with light projection: The Gertrude street projection festival, 2017. GeoHumanities, 4(1), 112–131. Giordano, E. (2018). Outdoor lighting design as a tool for tourist development: the case of Valladolid. European Planning Studies, 26(1), pp.55-74.Giordano, E. and Ong, C.E. (2017) Light festivals, policy mobilities and urban tourism. Tourism Geographies, 19(5), pp.699–716.Lovell, J. (2018). Hyperreal light Simulacra: Performing heritage buildings. In J. Rickly &amp; E. Vidon (Eds.), Authenticity &amp; tourism: Materialities, perceptions, experiences (pp. 181–200). Bingley: Emerald.Lovell, J., &amp; Griffin, H. (2018). Fairy tale tourism: the architectural projection mapping of magically real and irreal festival lightscapes. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events. 1-15. Photograph courtesy of Heinrich and PalmerProgrammeThe programme for the day is as follows:10:00-10:15 Welcome Introduction– Jane Lovell 10:15--10:30 The Future of Light Festivals - Tim Edensor 10:30-10:45 Translating the Past - The Projection Studio 10:45-11:00 Questions11:00-11:15 Break11:15-11:30 Cheriton Light Festival - Brigitte Orasinski11:30-11:45 Heinrich and Palmer11:45-12:00 Beyond Spectacles: Light Night Leeds and the potential for more participatory light festivals - Andrew Smith12:00-12:15 Questions12:15-12:30 Etched – Andy Hurst12:30-13:00 Lunch and time to watch the performance video: “Etched”13:00-13:15 - Making Public Spaces Playable - Tine Bech13:15-13:30 – Lights on Romania: Bottom-up festival of lights - Manuel Garcia-Ruiz13:30-13:45 Enchanting with Light – Jane Lovell and Howard Griffin13:45-14:00 Questions14:00-14:10 Symposium Close

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