Chinatown Park

Event:


FIGMENT Lights opening

Thursday, February 9  6:00PM
Chinatown Park (between Beech St. and Essex St.)

Join us for the FIGMENT Lights launch party! As part of the Winter Lights series on the Greenway, FIGMENT will feature five temporary interactive art displays in the coming weeks. Music and dance performances will introduce the projected art and light displays. Then, join us at the nearby Good Life Bar from 6:30-8:30pm to continue the celebration!


Installations:

  • Children’s Holiday Banner Display

Fish Lumieres by William Turville

In China, fish are a symbol of prosperity and it is believed that eating fish will help your wishes come true in the year to come.  To help celebrate the Chinese New Year, enjoy these large lit fish sculptures during the New Year’s Flower Market at Chinatown Park. January 19th - January 26nd

The Blueway by Collaborative Electronic Mixed Media Institute (CEMMI) led by Daniel Taub
 

Lighting in the dry streambed of Chinatown Park will echo the feel and motion of water, and passers-by will create ripples in the display through motion sensors. January 19th - March 21st

Winter Fireflies by Jim Salem

Take in the emergent personalities of a hundred colorful, electric "fireflies" that have taken up residence in a tree near Chinatown Gate. February 5th - March 2nd

Colorscape Fusion by Collaborative Electronic Mixed Media Institute (CEMMI) led by Priscilla Graeff

Several of the light towers in the park will be lit by LED spotlights which change colors by remote control to accentuate the Greenway’s path for passers-by. February 9th - March 21st

you-cue-are by Ethan Kiermaier and Ricardo Delima

A custom piece of software will generate QR codes from tweets sent in close proximity to the installation and project them in a bright white projection on the wall of an adjacent brick building. As a new tweet comes through the QR code will change. February 9th - February 16th  

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