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The route of light

You can have the most intense experience of the Light Festival if you go through all the stops of the Route of Light.

After sunset, visitors will be amazed by the building projections and site-specific light works of domestic and foreign artists in the cozy streets and squares of Pécs, in the city's galleries and in a few exceptional locations that only open to the public during the event. Those interested can meet light works based on analog and digital techniques, as well as static and interactive light installations.

The works in public spaces can be visited for free, but those who don't want to miss a light experience can look forward to the 6 special locations of ROUTE OF LIGHT EXTRA, which can be visited with the purchase of a wristband.

Route of Light 2023:

  • Barbican - Inside

    1. SEMINA

    Koros Design: SEMINA

    Vitality, nature’s diversity and its ability of renewal all comes to mind when you stand in front of Semina, the compelling artwork of Koros Design. The hidden, mysterious, otherwise not visible geometry of plant seeds is now brought to life as a huge installation at the Barbican.

    The artwork can be approached through Papkert, through it’s entrance from the Dóm square.

    ABOUT THE ARTIST:

    Koros Design (Réka MAGYAR and Péter KOROS) create works of art using special materials and technologies. The Budapest-based studio specializes in inflatable and light installations. Their projects explore the use of manual techniques in combination with digital generated design. The large scale installations of the studio have been on display at several light festivals and other art events worldwide.

    http://korosdesign.com
    https://www.instagram.com/koros__design

    2 SEMINA-min_web

  • Barbican - Outside

    2. RECYCLED CELLS

    Gabetoo: RECYCLED CELLS

    Gabetoo from Miskolc is composing analogue light painting on the outer wall of the Barbican's bastion, whose message is based around the idea of recycling. He creates slides by pressing, essentially using and reusing materials found in household rubbish.

    "I shape coloured PET bottles, vegetable and fruit nets, nylon stockings, floral packaging materials into shapes and place them in a collage-like manner between two sheets of glass, and then project this. I don't use pigments or dyes for the design, relying only on the inherent colour of the translucent materials.

    Formally inspired by tiny microscopic creatures, I create cellular compositions reminiscent of these, almost bringing environmentally harmful plastics to life. Over time, the materials I use would transform into micro-plastics, but not in my creations. Here, paradoxically, they become microorganisms."

    ABOUT THE ARTIST:

    Gregovszki Gábor

    "I have been interested in the potential of projected images for almost ten years. I do my projections entirely with analogue techniques, producing 80% handmade creatives. Graphic elements scratched on layers of paint, splattering solutions, stenciling and techniques of visual use of fluids are also close to my heart.

    In recent years I have become increasingly interested in the relationship between music, theatre, image and light. I use stage backdrops and diaporama techniques to create an atmosphere in concerts and performances that makes the production more meaningful."

    https://www.facebook.com/GGabeetoo

  • House of Civil Communities (Szent István tér 17.)

    3. WONDERKAMER

    Emerging positions of Dutch light art - group exhibition

    WONDERKAMER

    The exhibition provides an opportunity for visitors to enter a laboratory of perceptual experiences. The term Wonderkamer, derived from the Dutch language, refers to historical cabinets of curiosities that housed unique collections of rare objects and optical instruments during the Enlightenment. The history of optical instruments in the Netherlands can be traced back to the 17th century when scientists developed the camera obscura, the magic lantern, the telescope, and the microscope. Similar to how the neo-baroque architecture of the exhibition revisits former architecture styles, the exhibition itself references early inventions through contemporary positions and in turn manifests as a modern cabinet of curiosities.

    Today, a new generation of light artists based in the Netherlands is driven by the inventive spirit of the Enlightenment. They research, prototype, and build custom-made optical and sound instruments. The technologies they develop create distinct aesthetic languages that result in multi-sensorial environments. The exhibition presents five different positions divided into three chapters: Framing Light, Breaking Light, and Revolving Light. Framing Light creates an illusion of space, Breaking Light uses lenses to refract artificial and natural light, while Revolving Light challenges perception by evoking afterimages.

    The common ground between the artists is the focus on the apparatus, which challenges  conventional methods of perception and spatial awareness. The objects cast light into space, and by doing so, create multisensory atmospheres that engage observers through stimulation, meditation, and disturbance.

    The exhibition is realized as part of the Zsolnay Light Festival’s DUTCH FOCUS program.

    Exhibiting artists: Nicky Assmann & Joris Strijbos, Mike Rijnierse & Rob Bothof, Nanno Simonis, Zalán Szakács, Gabey Tjon a Tham
    Curator: Zalán Szakács
    Creative management: Let it Be! art agency
    Supported by: Embassy of the Netherlands in Hungary
    Technical partners: EPSON, Gonzo Visuals

    This venue can be visited from noon on 7, 8, and 9 July.

    Only visitable with ROUTE OF LIGHT ARMBAND!

    3 WONDERKAMER

  • House of Civil Communities – Ground floor (Szent István tér 17.)

    3.1 CUBE

    Mike Rijnierse & Rob Bothof (NL): CUBE

    The Cube light-sculpture draws from the principle of multiplication of reflections of kaleidoscopes and expands it to an architectonic realm. By positioning six mirrors at a perpendicular angle and with a thin gap between the edges, the work creates an infinite grid-space. Contrary to the classical kaleidoscope, where light enters through the object,  the light is embodied from within in Cube, projecting the interior outwards into the exhibition space. The lights and sound of the installation are choreographed by a generative algorithm that directs a synergy between space and acoustics.

    This venue can be visited from noon on 7, 8, and 9 July.

    Only visitable with ROUTE OF LIGHT ARMBAND!

    Cube in Sphæræ from Mike Rijnierse on Vimeo.

    ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

    Mike Rijnierse

    Mike Rijnierse is an artist, inventor, curator and educator working in the fields of light, sound and architecture. Intrigued by human/non-human sensory structures, he creates large scale installations, light and sound sculptures and urban interventions that engage in an attentive perception of the space.

    Rijnierse has exhibited his works throughout Europe, Korea, Taiwan, Morocco, United Arab Emirates and Brazil, in media art festivals, museums and the public space interventions. Currently, Mike Rijnierse is a listed artist on We Are Europe network.

    Rob Bothof

    Rob Bothof works as a creative coder, artist, inventor, engineer, educator and all round technical problem solver, covering an exciting blend of commercial, technical, artistic and non profit projects.

    His artistic work emerges in the crossfire between art and science, is primarily focused on technology and encompasses a broad range of interests, such as machine interaction, instrument building, autonomous systems, video games, sound design, improvisation, animation and procedural generation.

    https://mikerijnierse.nl
    https://www.robbothof.com

     

  • House of Civil Communities - upstairs, portico (Szent István tér 17.)

    3.2 LED WORMHOLE

    Nanno Simonis (NL): LED WORMHOLE

    The installation uses two layers of magnification to reveal the composition of white artificial light. It brings to the foreground the microcosmos within LED screens. The LED Wormhole presents new ways of seeing the screen, an object that increasingly mediates our experience of the world.

    This venue can be visited from noon on 7, 8, and 9 July.

    Only visitable with ROUTE OF LIGHT ARMBAND!

    ABOUT THE ARTIST:

    "Fascinated by the mind, perception and energy, my interest has shifted from linear storytelling of a filmmaker to a more poetic and physical approach.

    The indirect manner of installations to bring up individual relationships to the work is something that fascinates me. The placement of an object or an installation and the time to experience either one is a meaningful embrace to one’s own experience and perception.

    I aim to take large concepts and complicated matters that exist in our world and boil them down to an essence that can transcend our rational brain. An approach using the mind of a designer and the execution of an artist to facilitate a ‘wavelength’ to find resonance with others."

    https://nannosimonis.wixsite.com

    3.2 LED Wormhole_web

  • House of Civil Communities – upstairs / auditorium (Szent István tér 17.)

    3.3 LIQUID SOLID

    Nicky Assmann & Joris Strijbos (NL): LIQUID SOLID

    The video installation explores the cinematic qualities of a freezing soap film in the sub-Arctic Region of Finland. The constantly shifting iridescent quality of the liquid soap membrane disappears as it freezes, leaving a solid, crystallized, and colourless surface. For Liquid Solid, the artists composed a soundtrack with a mixture of soundscapes, ranging from singing whales to recordings with self-made instruments, such as VLF antennas and monochords played with electromagnets.

    This venue can be visited from noon on 7, 8, and 9 July.

    Only visitable with ROUTE OF LIGHT ARMBAND!

    Liquid Solid - Nicky Assmann & Joris Strijbos, Video Installation [TRAILER] from Nicky Assmann on Vimeo.

    ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

    Joris Strijbos

    Joris Strijbos is a Rotterdam-based artist whose work focuses on the synaesthetic relation and interaction between moving image and sound.

    His work consists of a series of kinetic audiovisual installations and new media performances inspired by an ongoing research into cybernetics, emergent systems, artificial life and communication networks within groups. In his installations he combines artificial, electronic and digital media with models and algorithms based on biological systems. In many of the pieces, the viewer witnesses a process in which machines, computer programs and the physical world interact with each other, resulting in a generative and multi sensorial composition.

    Joris Strijbos studied ArtScience at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague where he earned his Bachelor degree and received his master degree at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. His work has been widely shown at festivals, galleries and museums like, Ars Electronica, Linz, Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam, DEAF Biennale, Rotterdam, TodaysArt Festival,The Hague, Woodstreet Galleries, EYE Institute – Amsterdam, TENT Rotterdam, NCCA  Moscow, amongst others.

    Nicky Assmann

    The immaterial and intangible character of light, colour and movement forms the starting point of Nicky Assmann’s spatial installations, in which she tries to heighten the perception. She combines artistic, scientific and cinematographic knowledge in experiments with physical processes aimed at sensorial interference, in the form of kinetic light installations, video’s and live audio visual performances. She embeds her work in a context of visual music, expanded cinema, and the concept of synaesthesia. Set against the backdrop of our visual culture, where the perception of reality increasingly occurs in the virtual domain, she returns to the physical foundations of seeing in which the embodied experience is central.

    https://nickyassmann.net
    http://jorisstrijbos.nl

  • House Of Civil Communities – upstairs / Saloon lobby (Szent István tér 17.)

    3.4 EIGENGRAU

    Zalán Szakács: EIGENGRAU

    The immersive cinematic experience is a ritual in total darkness that solely uses light, haze, sound, smell, and movement. A light cylinder takes the audience through a narrative of various mental states while referencing the magic circle and loading screens. Eigengrau creates a perceptual illusion inspired by phantasmagoria, constructing a temporary escape in a contemporary setting.

    This venue can be visited from noon on 7, 8, and 9 July.

    Only visitable with ROUTE OF LIGHT ARMBAND!

    ABOUT THE ARTIST:

    Zalán Szakács is an artist who brings together immersive art, scenography and media theory research.
    Through his work, Szakács explores the relationship between space, body and technology, resulting in multi-sensory experiences that include elements such as light, sound, smell, time, tactility and movement.

    Szakács’ art installations invite the viewer on a mystical journey where reality and fiction intertwine. Attuned to both the individual and collective experience, it evokes a deeper awareness of the body in space and is capable of transporting the viewer to another place and time.

    Based on the research of media theory and media archaeology, his artistic work brings forgotten analogue technologies – such as 17th century optical experiments and 18th century phantasmagoria – to the contemporary context, unfolding as experiential art installations. For each project, Szakács closely collaborates with scientists and researchers as well as filmmakers, artists, sound designers, and local communities.

    The studio of Zalán Szakács is based in Rotterdam, where he graduated at Piet Zwart Institute in 2019 and at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2017. Additionally, he has been exhibiting at Ars Electronica Festival (AUT), Het Nieuwe Instituut (NL), V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media (NL), Kunsthaus Graz (AUT), MU Hybrid Art House (NL), and Light Art Museum Budapest (HU) among other places. Szakács is a visiting teacher at Utrecht University of Arts and affiliated researcher at Utrecht University.

    https://www.zalan-szakacs.com

    3.4 EIGENGRAU-min_web

  • House Of Civil Communities – upstairs / Saloon (Szent István tér 17.)

    3.5 RED HORIZON

    Gabey Tjon a Tham (NL): RED HORIZON

    The kinetic/light/sound installation consists of 15 meticulously controlled double pendulums that form a field of visual and sonic particles in a three-dimensional space. Red Horizon creates a swarm of light and sound - a combination of chaos and precision, appearance and intention.Upon extended observation, lucid afterimages reveal themselves; new forms and drawings appear arbitrarily on the retina, and are then artfully rendered by the mind.

    This venue can be visited from noon on 7, 8, and 9 July.

    Only visitable with ROUTE OF LIGHT ARMBAND!

    ABOUT THE ARTIST:
    Gabey Tjon a Tham is an installation artist working and living in the Hague, The Netherlands.

    Gabey transforms spaces into sensory and immersive environments through kinetic machines, digital landscapes, light, and sound.

    By analyzing complex systems that occur both in nature and the digital world she compiles a common structural core. She has found a common ground between nature and the digital in how they both command our lives through uninterrupted cycles. A sublime paradox that balances between beauty and the grotesque.

    Technology is a natural occurrence for Tjon a Tham: "While what we have traditionally called nature is increasingly being influenced by human action, our technological environment is becoming increasingly complex and untameable, we almost have to relate to it as a new nature".

    https://www.gabeytjonatham.com

    3.5 VÖRÖS HORIZONT-min

  • Mosque of Jakovali Hassan (Rákóczi street 2.)

    4. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS

    Los Romeras (ES): LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS

    Science and art have brought light to mankind shrouded in the darkness of oblivion. Their torches are astronomy, geometry, and poetry. This amplified, concentrated light reflected off the dome and onto the audience is our inspiration.

    Curator: Glowing Bulbs
    Projection-technology partner: Visual Humans And Tech, Glowing Bulbs

    This venue can be visited from noon on 7, 8, and 9 July.

    Only visitable with ROUTE OF LIGHT ARMBAND!

    ABOUT THE ARTIST:

    In the opinion of the jury, the Spanish team, Los Romeras won the first place in the Zsolnay Light Art Light Painting Competition in 2022, and they also won the fans favourite award. As a part of their prize, this year, they have their own station along the Pathway of Light, and they are making dome mapping in the interior of the Mosque of Jakovali Hassan. You can expect a completely different, but captivating work this time as well.

    4 LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS

  • Cella Septichora Visitor Center (Sétatér)

    5. VOX CELLAE SEPTICHORA

    Bartha Márk: VOX CELLAE SEPTICHORA

    A spectacular light installation and a multi-channel electronic music composition choreographed together fill the Cella Septichora, evoking the sparkling aura of mystical rituals.

    Premiere of the musical collaboration between Márk Bartha and Dr. habil. Balázs Kovács will be performed in the Early Christian Tombs Garden, complemented by a robust light installation that will create a complex experience.

    Only visitable with ROUTE OF LIGHT ARMBAND!

    ABOUT THE ARTIST:

    Márk Bartha is an electronic musician, sound designer and performer based in Budapest, Hungary.

    He worked with various theatre- and dance companies in Hungary as well as in the USA, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Romania and Poland. He composed music for animations, visual media and films. Working as a professional applied composer gave him a firm experience in musical production and collaborations in the most diverse musical environments.

    His personal artistic focus is widespread; having his musical background rooted in choir music, the connection of human voice and electronic music has been the center of his researches, while recently he has been working to present his compositions in an audiovisual environment. he hosts a radio show on the independent ‘Lahmacun Radio’ in Budapest, and under his moniker ‘Lohuma’ he produces beats and plays as a DJ.

    barthamark.com

  • Martyn Ferenc Museum, yard (Káptalan Street 4.)

    6. LIGHT-ART COLONY 1.0 - COURTYARD OF UNIVERSITIES

    LIGHT-ART COLONY 1.0 - COURTYARD OF UNIVERSITIES

    Group exhibition

    This year, the festival is launching an inventive experimental program that focuses on the young generation; the current students of higher education who are actively involved in light art, and supports their creative processes.

    A space functioning as a "light artist colony" will be created in Káptalan Street, which, in addition to offering transfer of knowledge, professional technical background and mentoring support, will provide an opportunity for young artists to introduce themselves and widen their network.

    Students from three universities are going to join the Light Artists' Colony, debuting this year, and rightfully hosted by Pécs, a university town. The participants include the up-and-coming young artists from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pécs, the Department of Environmental Culture of the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Teacher Training and Rural Development of the University of Pécs (KPVK), the Intermedia department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, and the Rippl-Rónai College of Arts in Kaposvár.

    What happens when music meets light? How can you make fire from water? If you want to get lost in the labyrinth of light, or sit around the contemporary fire, enter the rainbow mirror space, or see what happens in the den of sound and light, you must visit the courtyards of the Martyn Ferenc Museum and the Renaissance Lapidarium opening from there, and immerse in the light aura of the Museum Gallery, which invites you to countless adventures.

    Projection technology partner: EPSON, Special Effects, Gonzo Visuals

    Photo by:_REAL_AND_NONEREAL_ (Kalmár Csenge)

  • Martyn Ferenc Museum, yard (Káptalan Street 4.) - yard

    6.1 MUSICAL VISION

    MUSICAL VISION

    University of Pécs, Faculty of Arts - Light Course

    In the past semester, the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pécs launched a Light-art Course, so that students of the Faculty have the opportunity to create a complex audio-visual space, where sound plays at least as much a role as the constantly changing visuality. Their vision explores an issue that involves the lovers of underground electronic music, the people working in the scene and the creators as closely as the students participating in the project.  

    The difficulty arises from the fact that since these trends often differ from public taste, it is easy to slip over their cultural values, so it is not uncommon for their operation to run into obstacles. The project realised in the courtyard of the museum and resulting from the collaboration of visual artists and musicians aims to change this and wish to involve those who have not yet experienced the magical environments inspiring the creators. The students process the special forms of self-expression in a way that can be digested by laymen, making the beauty of their creative environment enjoyable regardless of taste.

    The work of the participants goes against the tendency whereby insufficient attention is paid to the visuals of an event, while, as the works displayed will show, the joint play of sound and light together provides an outstanding experience.  

    On the four days of the festival, four different layers of niche music will be presented in audiovisual form:  

    On Thursday, true to the faculty's Electronic Music Media Artist major, experimental performances are combined with visual abstractions; on Friday the unique soundscape of bass music accompanies the futuristic spectacle characteristic of the style; on Saturday the innovative nature of techno is manifested in the industrial minimalism of the musical and visual world, and on Sunday, the sunny and its oblivious atmosphere house genre is will take over the courtyard.

    It is important to mention that the close cooperation between music and visuals is manifested, among other things, in the fact that the visual works are all audio reactive, as this is an essential part of the party culture where the creators operate, thus combining light entertainment with an artistic spectacle.  

    In addition to all these, the university students host a kaleidoscope-making workshop almost every afternoon. While preparing for the workshops, the students were provided mentoring and technical support by the Glowing Bulbs team and EPSON. 

    Students involved in the project are: Abonyi Zsolt, Böjti István, Hámori Tamás, Kincses Alíz, Király Olga, Madarász Péter, Madari Kinga, Schile Lilu, Szabó Adrienn, Szabó Zita, Tokodi Krisztofer, Tőke Krisztián, Vikukel Máté
    Course leader: Kelemen Márton
    Mentoring support: Glowing Bulbs
    Projection technology: EPSON, Special Effects, Glowing Bulbs, Gonzo Visuals

  • Martyn Ferenc Museum, yard (Káptalan Street 4.) - Museum Gallery - 1-3. room

    6.2 LUX US

    LUX US

    University of Fine Arts  - Intermedia major - Light and audio-visual art course

    The cult of audio-visual devices, as objects of mass culture and its technical projection, pervades our everyday life and shapes our culture based on McLuhan's technological determinism.

    In parallel with mass culture, the innovation of technology in the 21st century, due to the effectiveness of real-time processing, gave artists a novelty that opened up new perspectives in digital audio-visuality, the synthesis of sound and image, and represented a significant step in installation and live arts, visual performance and light art alike. At the same time, art has always shown a keen interest in science, the integration of twentieth-century optoelectronic devices can be observed in the light art of György Kepes, László Moholy Nagy, and Miklós Schöffer as well.

    The main mission of the light and audio-visual art courses at the Intermedia major of MKE is for students to be able to participate both theoretically and practically in the international discourse of these technologies and in the integration of light as a medium, as well as in the acquisition of audio-visual thinking.

    The exhibition will feature the works of all students attending the second semester of the 2022/23 academic year of the light-art course, as well as a selection of light art themed installations from the works of the audio-visual course.

    Students involved in the exhibition include:

    Fanni André, Boglárka Bajkán, Anna Biró, László Bertalan  Boda, Árpád Dezső, Tamás Éliás, Annabella Fudella, Ágnes Gombos, Petra Hahn, Júlia Horniák, Csenge Kalmár, Norbert Kiss, Marcell Marosfalvi, Krisztina Németh, Noémi Németh, Ákos Plesznivy, Boróka Prokob, Virág Réti, Regina Sárvári, Anett Zsófia Szigeti, Noémi Tompai, Kata Tóth, Máté Üveges, Zalán Vad, Vajk Vilmos Varga

    Lecturer of the light art and audio-visual course: Andrea Sztojánovits DLA, senior lecturer

    6.2 LUX US

    Fotó: Odú (Fudella Annabella, Horniák Júlia, Sárvári Regina)

  • Martyn Ferenc Museum, yard (Káptalan Street 4.) - Museum Gallery - 4. room

    6.3 CONTACT

    CONTACT

    Environmental Culture Major of the Faculty of Cultural Sciences of Pécs University

    A site-specific light and mirror installation titled "Contact" is going to be established with the collaboration of environmental culture students of the Applied Art Department at KPVK of the University of Pécs. In the exhibition space of the Museum Gallery, a light space curtain with a dense, vertical extension in the space is going to be created, which reflects every tiny vibration and movement. The installation is made of mirror film, which displays the simplest basic forms in a dense network. Viewers are guided through a new, light-dynamic futuristic space of reflections and constantly changing colours.

    The preview of this installation was prepared in November 2022 at the Univeritas Gallery of KPVK of Pécs University in Szekszárd. That exhibition reflected on the oeuvre of kinetic sculptor Lajos Dargay.  

    Lajos Dargay (1942-2018), a former student of Nicolas Schöffer, is the founder of Hungarian kinetic-cybernetic art. His works are characterized by professional and technical thoroughness and accurate execution. The most important characteristic of his compositions based on movement, light, and pure construction is the constructed order and the expansion of the virtual space of the works. In addition to his sculptural activities, his graphic work is also significant. From the end of the 1960s, he maintained a good and regular relationship with the international art world and, of course, not only with circles of the so-called emigrated Hungarian artists. Along with the former members of the legendary Gruppe ZERO (Düsseldorf), who are also considered as his spiritual companions, he maintained a good relationship with the contemporary spirit of the with the Hungarian-Austrian-German founders of the Bauhaus and their students.

    This work intends to be connected to the axis in which Nicholas Schöffer's light dynamic prisms were made. The artist, who also collaborated with the radical architectural groups of the 60s, expands the locations of art, whereby he exhibits his prism in the WoomWoom club in Saint Tropez, in which Brigitte Bardo sings the utopian song Contact, dressed in Paco Rabbanne. It is a fantastic example of a high-quality meeting of high culture and consumer society."

    Students involved in the project are:

    Mira BABICZ, Ágnes HORTI, Dóra KUNKLI, Dénes HIZSNYIK, Fanni BÓVÁRI, Nikoletta HORVÁTH, Vand iktória MEYER

    Project manager: Rita VARGA

    Several accompanying events were organised to supplement the exhibition, including:

    • museum-educational sessions
    • performances
    • round table discussion about kinetic art

    6.3 KONTAKT

  • Martyn Ferenc Museum, yard (Káptalan Street 4.) - Renaissance Stone Museum

    6.4 SCULPTURAL FURNITURE

    SCULPTURAL FURNITURE

    Rippl-Rónai College of Art - Kaposvár

    The shapes of Hans Arp's "À la suite relief de l'Unesco" step out into the space to become seating furniture playing in the light, offering artistic value and relaxation to weary festival-goers.

    And if you're feeling reinvigorated, hop on one of the bikes! They are all equipped with dynamos and, depending on the speed of the drive, provide the electricity to light the sculptural furniture.

    The participants in the art college are also making animated videos, inspired by the Janus Pannonius Museum gallery.

    Lead teacher: Gyenis Tibor, adjunktus, MATE Kaposvári Campus Média Tanszék
    Project manager / general secretary of the vocational college: Szurgent Gerda
    Students involved in the project are: Kiss Ivett Katja, Nagy Réka, Toldi Emese, Berki Noémi, Kásádácz Kíra, Rostás Ádám, Hársy Dorottya, Ruzsa Lili, Balázs Gáspár, Kollár Gergő, Czifra Máté

  • Baranya County Assembly Hall

    7. LIMEN

    Marc Vilanova (ES): LIMEN

    Fluorescents produce sounds that humans can’t hear. Limen translates these ultrasounds into perceptible frequencies, allowing us to see and listen to the invisible sound of the light.

    Limen aims to unveil the invisible sounds of our everyday life. The piece works around the fluorescent lamp, one of the most common sources of light which also produces many tones above 20kHz. Using a special microphone we captured those ultrasounds and translated them into audible frequencies.

    The composition uses only those invisible sounds produced by the lamps. This sonic material triggers a choreography of light composed by 128 fluorescents which are displayed in the shape of their ultrasonic waveform. The sculpture is surrounded by a yellow lter, a color known by its ability to increase our concentration and perceptional capacity, enhancing other organs than the ear on sensing those frequencies.

    Limen means threshold, the place in between, the boundary of perception, a term that gives the lineal

    form to the structure and divides the space in two. The sculpture acts as a threshold between our perception limits, between the visible and the invisible, the hearable and the inaudible, between what we can sense and what goes beyond.

    Commission: Art & Tech Days
    Produced by: Creative Industry Košice
    Co-producer: Klangraum Krems
    Residency Hosts: KAIR Košice Artist in Residence, Artist in Residence Niederösterreich

    Only visitable with ROUTE OF LIGHT ARMBAND!

    ABOUT THE ARTIST:

    Marc Vilanova s a sound and visual artist working at the intersection of art, science and technology. Vilanova’s artistic production has always been led by a spirit of innovation fueled by an interest in new media. Merging research and artistic practices onto projects in which concepts such audio visuality, automation, machine self-expression, AI and superintelligence and the socio- political implications regarding society’s relationship with technology are explored.

    Currently, he creates audiovisual installations while also working with performance and interdisciplinary collaborations with dance, theatre, and moving images. His pieces have been presented in festivals around the world in Japan, the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Iran, Taiwan, South Korea, Russia and many countries in Europe.

    He has received numerous grants, awards and residencies including the prestigious Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco 2020, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Fellowship, Omaha 2019, KARA Award, Teheran 2018, Citizen Artist Incubator, Linz 2017, the Encouragement Prize Tokyo Experimental Festival 2016, Jury Prize at Saxopen, Congress Strasbourg 2015 or the First Prizeat the International Contest of Sound Art Performance, Zaragoza 2014 among others.

    As an educator, Vilanova led workshops on transdisciplinary creation, live electronics, free improvisation and extended techniques. He has been invited as a guest professor at the Tokyo National University GEIDAI, Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, Moshen Gallery Teheran, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro “UNIRIO”, Sibelius Academy Helsinki, Hochschule für Musik Basel and many more.

    https://marcvilanova.com

    7 LIMEN-min

  • Janus Pannonius Street

    8. CARPET I AM: LIGHT CARPET

    CARPET I AM: LIGHT CARPET

    For many years, one of the most popular creations of the Route of Light has been the Light Carpet, which involves the analogue light painting of the pavement and walls of the Janus Pannonius Street. This year again, the artists of the Light Carpet were selected through a competition, and applications were invited from students who are taking part in higher art education.

    The aim of the competition is to provide young artists with a professional technical background and mentoring support, as well as an opportunity to test, practice and develop their potential in public art in the intense presence of an audience.

    Technical partner: Night Projection

    koerber-web

  • Széchenyi Square

    9. WHAT LIES BENEATH

    Susan Kosti & Katona Kati: WHAT LIES BENEATH

    'Soak in our glowing, ethereal coral reefs, home to all kinds of colourful creatures – no wetsuit required. 3D-mapped onto the curved rocks of Nawi Cove, this projection uses real data from ocean currents, water temperature, chlorophyll A, wind, salinity and water anomaly to show how our reefs are moving and changing in warming waters. A hypnotising portal to an otherworldly ecosystem that needs our help to survive the pressures of climate change and continue to captivate generations to come.'

    Susan Kosti and Kati Katona compose a data visualization-based, hypnotic projection on the facade of the Dzámi, based on 20 years of data collected by NASA to draw attention to an ecosystem that needs a lot of help and intervention to survive the effects of climate change destruction.

    This work was initially made for Vivid Sydney 2023 and commissioned by Destination NSW.

    https://susankosti.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/katikatona

    Technical partner: EPSON, AVadvice, Gonzo Visuals, Fényszórók

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    9 WHAT LIES BENEATH-min

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  • Nádor Gallery (Széchenyi Square 15)

    10. NAKED WAVES

    Mïus X Attaray: NAKED WAVES

    The sound-light-space installation created in the space of the Nádor Gallery is visual music extended into the space, a sound-light vortex that can be walked through, and an organic change of spatial experience in the light-acoustic space. The contemporary sound-light 'organ' weaves visually volatile, moving light phenomena created from the expansion of the spatial structure by means of light streams moving to the sounds that fill the space.

    Only visitable with ROUTE OF LIGHT ARMBAND!

    ABOUT THE ARTIST:

    The name of Gergely Álmos, a Europan award winning architect, may also sound familiar in music. As a composer-producer, he is the creator of mïus, an internationally recorded music project from the workshop of the Berlin publishing house Sonar Kollektiv. In addition to composing music, he is the art director and founder of the music label Théque Records. 

    Andrea Sztojánovits has been working with real-time audio-visual installations since 2001. She obtained her DLA at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2019 with her dissertation 'A vjing as a method'. In addition to her creative activities, she is a senior lecturer at the MKE Intermédia department and holds workshops. Her main fields of education and research are visual music art trends and the analysis of images created for sound.

    https://miusxattaray.hu
    www.facebook.com/miusband
    https://andreasztojanovits.com
    https://www.instagram.com/attarayvisual

    Technical partner: Audiovisual Rental

    10 NAKED WAVES

  • Jókai Square

    11. PET/LED PROJEKT - TOUCH THE BOTTLE

    FényHangÁr: PET/LED PROJEKT - TOUCH THE BOTTLE

    The PET/LED Project is an interactive art installation that combines the idea of recycling with the world of visual arts, highlighting the importance of the human touch.

    The 240 PET bottles, arranged in a geometric shape equipped with LED lights, interact when touched with the projections on the facades of the surrounding buildings.

    https://fenyhangar.hu/
    https://www.facebook.com/fenyhangar

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    11 PET_LED PROJEKT-min

  • ÁRKÁD Pécs Shopping Center

    12. DESIGN IN AIR

    Filthy Luker & Pedro Estrellas (UK): DESIGN IN AIR

    Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas turn their playful ideas into seriously large sculptures as some kind of personal vendetta against the mundane confines of the city in a heroic effort to make the world a brighter, happier and more surreal place for us all.

    Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas are driven by a passion for innovative design, public art and mischievous interventions. The duo proves again and again that they are pioneering artists in the world of inflatable works, with their larger-than-life sculptures and rebellious humor they have carved a unique place for themselves in the international street art movement.

    The artists with their highly skilled team of technicians, working as Designs in Air, always seek to make objects of beauty with meticulous textile construction, a vibrant colour pallet and innovative lighting.

    https://www.filthyluker.org

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  • ÁRKÁD Pécs Shopping Center - Czinderi Park

    13. ENHANCED PLAYGROUND

    Petra Koza: ENHANCED PLAYGROUND

    Czinderi Park welcomes young and older explorers for night adventures again. The Enchanted Playground attempts to answer the question of how we can make an already familiar and somewhat boring environment - the playground - exciting in today's digital world.

    In the dark, a new, exciting aspect of the already familiar park is presented, the games come to life, and the light awakens new, unusual stimuli in the visitors.

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  • ÁRKÁD Pécs Shopping Center

    14. ALTER EGO (Version II)

    Moritz Wehrmann (DE): ALTER EGO (Version II)

    The installation Alter Ego is both a playful and thought-provoking piece of light art. ALTER EGO is an experimental setting, questioning, and aiming to visualize the mental and mimetic inter–relationship between two dialogue partners.


    As you watch yourselves in the mirror your two faces merge, which is quite an exciting sensation. The work promises both light entertainment while evoking the sense of losing one’s own identity and the feeling of a deep empathy for the other.

    The German artist developed the project alone, but Alain Berthoz, a professor at the Collége de France in Paris later introduced it into scientific studies, with the ultimate aim of using the device to aid medical research. It is very rare that an artistic project that was included in multiple art festivals also became a part of scientific research.

    ABOUT THE ARTIST:

    Moritz Wehrmann is a new-media artist and researcher. He graduated in New Media and Design Studies at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney, Australia.

    As an artist he’s interested in creating visual and spatial entities, which give the visitor access into an (un)known world with the help of various experimental or mechanical tools. He works in the fields of video, photography and new media but in this context he often includes researching sound and sensations. As a researcher he’s currently based at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, in the past he also collaborated with the Humboldt University in Berlin.

    https://moritzwehrmann.com

    Due to the strong light and sound effects, these events are not recommended to visitors who are sensitive to it!

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    14 ALTER EGO

  • Színház Square

    15. FORESTS OF MECSEK

    LaLuz Visuals: FORESTS OF MECSEK

    The light painting in the Színház Square invites visitors to a journey through the forest. In addition to the animals, plants and fungi of the forests of Hungary, Laluz Visuals' work explores the fairy tales and legends of the forests of Mecsek in sound and light.

    The light painting, which also evokes elements of local history, is accompanied by a musical experience: stories of Cantabrian knights, Büdös-kút dragons and witches, accompanied by the pulsating sound of Literary Dubtechno & Dj Bodoo and Tilos Radio.

    www.laluz.hu

    15 MECSEKI RENGETEG-min

  • Búza Square

    16. LUX FABULA CUBUM - MECHANICAL LIGHT PLAYGROUND

    Szuhay Márton, Christoph Gartlacher & Ad hoc Lab & Lumensqaud: LUX FABULA CUBUM - MECHANICAL LIGHT PLAYGROUND

    Mechanical lightshows, brought to life by sunlight and human power in an enchanted chapel.

    "We've brought together old bicycles, metal structures, glass, optical instruments and a travelling chapel to show that we can not only enjoy light, but - with a little effort - create it ourselves!"

    www.adhoclab.org
    www.lab.org.hu

    16 LUX FABULA CUBUM-min

  • Kodály Center - Concert Hall

    17. GAIA

    Luke Jerram (UK): GAIA

    Gaia is a touring artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram.

    Measuring seven metres in diameter, Gaia features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the Earth’s surface*. The artwork provides the opportunity to see our planet on this scale, floating in three-dimensions.

    The installation creates a sense of the Overview Effect, which was first described by author Frank White in 1987. Common features of the experience for astronauts are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment. Watch this great film about the phenomenon.

    The artwork also acts as a mirror to major events in society. In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the artwork may provide the viewer with a new perspective of our place on the planet; a sense that societies of the Earth are all interconnected and that we have a responsibility toward one another. After the lockdown, there has been a renewed respect for nature.

    A specially made surround sound composition by BAFTA award winning Composer Dan Jones is played alongside the sculpture. In Greek Mythology Gaia is the personification of the Earth.

    'Created in partnership with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Bluedot and The UK Association for Science and Discovery Centres. With supporting partners Culture Liverpool and Liverpool Cathedral.'

    The imagery for the artwork has been compiled from Visible Earth series, NASA.

    This venue can be visited from noon on 7, 8, and 9 July.

    Only visitable with ROUTE OF LIGHT ARMBAND!

    ABOUT THE ARTIST:

    Luke Jerram's multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations and live arts projects. Living in the UK but working internationally since 1997, Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects which have excited and inspired people around the world. In 2022 alone he had 104 exhibitions in 25 different countries, visited by more than 2 million people.

    https://my-earth.org/

  • Kodály Center - Room F08

    18. SMING

    Superbe (BE): SMING

    Sming is an interactive choir installation offering people the chance to be both a conductor and an entire choir simultaneously.

    First the visitor’s voice is recorded in audio and video. The voice is analysed and software-modified to compose a full choir, from baritone to soprano.

    People will then lead the orchestra thanks to the magical baton. A 3 axis-accelerometer is placed inside the baton to follow the conductor’s movements. Users take control of the choir’s rhythm and intensity, and give the music a full artistic privacy.

    Each screen is a voice of the choir and is created from the original sound that was recorded first. The music you will hear is determined by people's movements and tone of voice and is inspired by chords of musical writers. We want to make people experience the music in a different way, as they are immersed into their own vibration and harmony.

    This venue can be visited from noon on 7, 8, and 9 July.

    Only visitable with ROUTE OF LIGHT ARMBAND!

    ABOUT THE ARTIST:

    Superbe is an artistic studio creating interactive experiences connecting people and technology, real and digital, emotion and act. Pieces of smile, sound molecules, electronic components and disorganized photons are sampled to make practical, useful and working concepts.

    https://www.superbe.be

    18 SMING

  • The environment of the Kodály Center

    19. ARRIVAL

    380-780 Collective: ARRIVAL

    The light installation composed by 380-780 Collective, hosted by the facade and surroundings of the Kodály Center, guides the visitor through the step-by-step process of perception, journey and arrival.

    In their concept, the artists show how perception - which appears vague in the darkness - becomes an increasingly sharp and decisive image.

    By picking out a characteristic element of the space, the iconic building of Pécs presents itself to the visitor from a new aspect.

    Lighting partner: Martin by Harman

    Martin professional, a Harman owned company is the global market leader for entertainment lighting, manufactured in Pecs, Hungary.
    World popstars like Bruce Springsteen, Ed Sheeran, Sabaton and many more are touring with the lighting equipment, produced in Pecs. As Martin sees Pecs as an important location for the professional lighting industry, we are pleased to support the Zsolnay Light Festival as lightpartner, to thank the city of Pecs for there collaboration in our Harman factory.

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    19 ÉRKEZÉS-min