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Architectural light graffiti comes in many forms that all share one common feature: the effects are there one second and gone the next. The only record of these curious performance arts comes in the form of photographs and videos. Here’s a look at three types of urban light art: dorm room tetris, lightstick air animation and architectural projection bombing. 
Tampere, Finland: Adjacent to the Nokia research Center in Europe, Mikontalo is the largest student dormitory in the Nordic countries. People from the Finnish Student Union and Universimo gaming company decided to play some tetris using the apartment lights and windows of the building, controlled by remote! This is a somewhat more sophisticated approach than the low-tech Russian version (first video above) in which time-lapse photography is employed and students manually switched on and off the lights! 
Koln, Germany: Lichtfaktor uses their light to expressive their creative impulses. Late at night, they document their exploits via photography and film, writing and drawing light graffiti. What start as simple air drawing has since developed into an interest in complex forms and visual collages. They continue to evolve their art and experiment with new forms of light animation. 
New York City, USA: Outdoor digital projection in urban environments is a great method for getting your content up big before the eyes and in the minds of your fellow city inhabitants. Digital projection bombing is a leave-no-trace activity much like the bizarrely creative practice of reverse graffiti, but other forms of light graffiti also exist including battery-powered LED throwies.
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22 Comments
December 7th, 2007 at 2:36 am
you should check out the original blinkenlights - first aware of this many years ago - born out of a local german computer club: http://www.blinkenlights.de/ berlin based. you canc check many videos on youtube here is one with a short glimpse into Blinkenlights Backstage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFacSJBCql0
December 7th, 2007 at 7:15 am
also check out this nice xmas tree in madrid. http://technabob.com/blog/2007.....ts-madrid/
December 7th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Very unique art… very. I love the lights!
December 7th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
I really liked the music used in these video. Do you happen to know any of the music artists?
December 8th, 2007 at 9:55 am
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beantown/2066067539/
December 9th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Windows illumination projects have always fascinated me. Did you know in the late 1980s a Japanese architect named Non Ishida came up with the idea of grid like picture logic puzzles while working on a geometric pattern windows illumination project on a high-rise building in Tokyo? Today this type of puzzle, aka paint-by-numbers, hanjie, pic-a-pix and other names, is enjoyed by many folks in both Japan and the West. Some illumination project it was, ha?
December 9th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
I am impresed by these lights ..I like the light shows on the India Gate.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
You should check out illum on flickr (in the Light Art pool). These guys from the US developing their skills it seems to a great level.
They, along with lichtfaktor and biwerw (expose), look to be composing and capturing some awesome shots.
December 15th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Beautiful.. Loooove them.
As a matter of fact, I have a friend working with light arts..
Check his pix here:
http://discomfort.multiply.com.....uciogenics
December 19th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Aphex Twin is music from one vid
November 12th, 2008 at 4:39 am
I like the lights they look amazing, very interesting type of art……
November 12th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
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