Vivid Sydney

Vivid Sydney is an annual outdoor lighting festival withimmersive light installations and projections. Part of thelighting festival also includes the performances from localand international musicians and an ideas exchange forumfeaturing public talks and debates from leading creativethinkers.The event is held during winter in Sydney over the courseof three weeks in May and June. The centrepiece ofVivid Sydney is the light sculptures, multimedia interac-tive work and building projections that transform variousbuildings and landmarks such as the Sydney Opera Houseand Sydney Harbour Bridge in and around the SydneyCBD into an outdoor night time canvas of art.In 2015, places to visit are in Central Park, Chatswoodand the University of Sydney as well as around the CBD,Darling Harbour and The Rocks.

1 History

Vivid began as a Smart light festival for energy efficiencycurated by Brian Eno. Brian Eno in collaboration withBruce Ramus projected Light Painting onto both sides ofthe Opera House. The Festival was championed by MaryAnne kyriakou, Anthony Bastic, Mike Day, Davina Jack-son and Barry Webb.The Light Artists List for the original Vivid Smart lightFestival 200901 WEATHER PROJECTION - Alex Haw (UK) Ro-tunda, Observatory Hill02 TREEANDBENCH -ReinhardGermer, FionaVenn,Tim Geary (Aus) Meinhardt Observatory Hill03 THE PARADOX BETWEEN LIGHT AND TIME -Andy Uprock (Aus) Observatory Hill04 PICK A DATE TO MATCH THE BRIGHTESTMOON - Jeppe Aagaard Andersen (Denmark) Observa-tory Hill05 CLOUD OF BATS - Trent Middleton, Ruth McDer-mott, Ben Baxter (Aus) Wall on Watson Rd07 FIRE FLIES - Francesco Mariotti (Switz) Along Ar-gyle St08 ROCKLIGHTS - Ingo Bracke (Germany) Argyle Cut09 SHADOWS - Simon Grimes (Aus) Steps to Glouces-ter Walk10 HUMAN TILES - Carole Purnelle and Nuno Maya

(Portugal) Playfair Lane11 HAMMERHAUS - Laurenz Theinert, Axel Hemprich(Germany) Cleland Bond12 WASTE - Michael Day (Aus) Within The Rocks14 VESSEL OF (HORTI) CULTURAL PLENTY -Warren Langley (Aus) Cadman Park15 RAINBOW - Mark Hammer, Andre Kecskes (Aus)Outside Billich Gallery16 CYCLE! - Clouston Associates (Aus) Circular Quay,Intl Passenger Terminal17 GHOSTSOF THEROCKS - Jon Voss (Aus) CadmanPark18 FACADE - The Electric Canvas Museum of Contem-porary Art20 LUMENOCITY - Sean Bryen, Sascha Crocker, An-drew Daly (Aus) Customs House Forecourt21 DOVES THAT CRY - Mary-Anne Kyriakou, JoeSnell (Aus) Inside Customs House22 BIRDS - Emrah Baki Ulas, Mirjam Roos (Aus) EastCircular Quay23 NOTHING LEFT TOGUESS - Tim Carr (Aus) ArupEast Circular Quay24 SONGLINES - Joe Snell (Aus) Conservatorium ofMusic25 LIGHTING THE SAILS - Brian Eno (UK) SydneyOpera House00 HORIZON - Flynn Talbot (Aus) 72 Erskine St

2 Commercial success for Destina-tion NSW

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According to AGB Director Anthony Bastic Vivid 2014attracted more than 1.4 million visitors to see the outdoorlight exhibition.[3] generating around $10 million in in-come for the state,[4] whereas Vivid 2013 attracted morethan 800,000 visitors, contributing more than $20millionto the NSW economy.[5]

In 2014, the festival involved the Sydney Opera House,Walsh Bay, Circular Quay, The Rocks, North Sydney,Darling Harbour, and, joining in for the first time, Har-

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The Sydney skyline during Vivid Sydney

bour Lights, The Star and Carriageworks. A new pro-jected work by London-based creative team 59 Produc-tions illuminated the sails of the Sydney Opera House.[6]

3 See also• Vivid LIVE

• Art of Australia

• Enlighten Canberra

• Projection mapping

Media related to Vivid Sydney at Wikimedia Commons

4 References[1] “Vivid Sydney breaks record as festivalgoers

exceed population of Adelaide”. http://www.destinationnsw.com.au/news-and-media/media-releases/vivid-sydney-breaks-record-festivalgoers-exceed-population-adelaide''.Destination NSW.

[2] Willis, Kimberley (17 February 2012). “Top 10 ideas fes-tivals”. The Guardian. Retrieved 5 February 2013.

[3] Boulton, Martin (27 May 2012). “A vivid idea of a fes-tival”. The Age (Melbourne: Fairfax Media). Archivedfrom the original on 8 May 2013. Retrieved 5 February2013.

[4] Taylor, Andrew (21 March 2013). “Vivid Sydney up inlights”. The Canberra Times (Fairfax Media). Archivedfrom the original on 19 February 2014.

[5] “One Week until Sydney goes Wild”. Destination NSW.16 May 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2014.

[6] “Vivid LIVE - Lighting the Sails 2014”. 59 Productions.May 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2014.

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