Date of issued：13 June, 2018 ・Activity 1／LIGHTING GUERRILLA （2018/05/11-06/16） Newsletter Vol.90　Download PDF LIGHTING GUERRILLA 12th international light art festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia 2018/05/11-06/16　　Aleksandra Stratimirovic 12th international Lighting Guerrilla festival in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, this year focuses on the theme Colours. Over 40 international visual artist are presenting light art works and installations all over this picturesque city. The event dedicated to the activities of Transnational Lighting Detectives, organised in 2007 in Ljubljana, was the forunner that inspired establishing of the Lighting Guerrilla festival. International Lighting Guerrilla festival has been undergoing in Ljubljana since 2007, led by Katerina Mirovic with the team. Festival is dedicated to the production and presentation of works of contemporary visual and new-media art, whose main mean of expression is the medium of light. The aim of the festival is to stress the role of art in everyday life as well as to underline the role of an artist in the shaping of the public space. The mission of the festival is to highlight the city as a living organism, a space of creativity that excites the imagination and dictates a dynamic and exploratory rhythm of life. The festival takes place every year in late spring, when a number of projects in the outdoors as well as in the galleries illuminate the city of Ljubljana. The festival, equipped each time with a dierent title theme, comes also in a smaller autumn edition named Re:Action that is…

It is an island of light floating in the desert. Lighting technology in Las Vegas is not sedentary, but reinventing itself daily. How can we seize the inviting eyes of visitors? What is attractive lighting? In this place, day is night and night is day. Everybody’s internal clock has goes haywire. From the top of the Stratosphere Tower, the lights of The Strip appear out of the black desert, like the lights of a spacestation. Exterior lighting of the Venetian Resort Hotel. Tourists sit in front of casino slot machines 24 hours a day with no perception of time, since even during the day the interior is keep fairly dark.

Date of Issue: March 31, 2025・Activity 1/ City Night Survey: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia（2024.10.01-05） City Night Survey: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia2024.10.01-10.05 Atsushi Itakura & Genki Watanabe When thinking of Mongolia, many people may imagine vast grasslands and nomadic gers, but therapidly developing capital city of Ulaanbaatar also deserves attention.Despite being only about five and a half hours from Japan, few people are familiar with its currentstate.This visit, conducted through an urban lighting survey of Ulaanbaatar, provided a valuableopportunity to discover an unexpected side of Mongolia. ■What Kind of Place Is Mongolia?When we think of Mongolia, the first image that often comes to mind is of vast grasslands stretching out endlessly, dotted with “gers”—the traditional dwellings of nomadic herders. For Japanese people, there’s also a sense of connection through cultural and historical ties, such as the shared heritage linked to the Mongolian spot (mongolian birthmark) and the many Mongolian sumo wrestlers who have found great success in Japan. Despite being only a five-and-a-half-hour flight away from Japan, Mongolia is a country that feels both near and distant—close in proximity, yet far in familiarity. Though we may feel an affinity toward Mongolia, the reality is that most people know very little about its present state. With this simple curiosity as our starting point, we embarked on a 5-day, 4-night survey of urban lighting in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of this rapidly developing nation. ■Topographical Characteristics of Ulaanbaatar Ulaanbaatar covers an area of approximately 4,700 square kilometers and…

2019.09.21　　Erina Hosono Group photo with the finished lanterns Our lantern festival ‘Let’s make vegetable themed lanterns!’ was held as a kid’s workshop on September 21st in Nerima Sakujiikoen Furusato Museum. This event had 52 children as participants, centered on those who are in their first and second year of elementary school, becoming our largest event to date. Including the staff and the parents/guardians of the children, it was a huge gathering of over a 100 people. The participants made vegetable themed lanterns and listened to the “Fire and Light lecture”. Did you know that Nerima’s urban agriculture is flourishing and has representative agricultural products such as daikon radish and green onions? The museum staff wanted to teach the kids about Nerima’s agricultural success through our lantern crafting session. Therefore, we prepared daikon radish, green onion, spikenard, corn, tomato, persimmon, and cabbage (all of which are Nermia specialties) themed crafting paper. Day of, the children pick a vegetable of their choice after signing up and spend around an hour crafting the lantern. At the orientation, we demonstrated the different styles of lanterns by turning off the lights and lighting the candle within the lanterns. The children all exclaimed ‘wow!’, ‘Kawaii!’, when they saw the lanterns they would be making, expressing their excitement but also warming the hearts of all the adults at the event at the same time with their cuteness. The kids facial expressions turned serious and focused once they…

2024.05.30 Noriko Higashi A review of the May 10 City Night Survey was held. 20 people gathered at LPA on Friday night to discuss the lighting in the newest spot, Azabudai Hills.We did the review of the May 10 Azabudai Hills & Toranomon Hills Station Tower City Night Survey. The leaders of the groups summarized their opinions and made presentations using photos of the heroes and villain of each group. The report from each group seemed to have more heroes than the past town walks.I would like to report some common points and notable contents from each group’s presentation ■Media ceiling behind the eaves of Toranomon Hills Station Tower　Most of the teams had never seen a media ceiling before and highly evaluated it as an interesting new landmark. Some commented that the ceiling’s moving projections led visitors’ viewpoints upward, making the space appear larger. The digital lighting is very symbolic and suitable for the entrance of a new city which makes it deserve to be a hero. ■Azabudai Hills Landscape LightingA slightly darker lighting scheme that makes people naturally want to visit the brightly lit storefronts in the back of the building. The approach to the commercial area is less bright, making the store facade more conspicuous. The uplighting of trees, which usually tends to be a villain, was also well-lit, although there were some too dazzling spots depending on the type of tree. Opinions about the lighting at the…