LIGHT(ART) in PUBLIC SPACE: safety, comfort and arousing astonishment
December 19,  13:30 – 18:30 +more  -   Pakhuis de Zwijger

Lightfestivals are a growing fenomenon. They boost the environment where they are held. For the periode of the festival the focus is at city’s nightscape and it attracts many spectators, also from out of town. Light is therefore an important economical factor in a community.
 
Cost € 95,- incl VAT, souper, refreshments (please payed in advance) language of the symposium is in English
Please subscribe before or on dec 12 dec: simone@lichtontwerpen.nl
timetable and lecturers (preliminairy – subject to change)
13:30 - registration
14:00 - start symposium, moderator Henk van der Geest
14:05 - keynote Felix Guttmann, director of Amsterdam Light Festival
14:15 - Hans Akkerman - chief illumination dIVV Amsterdam
14:45 - Ellen de Vries - lighting designer and artist Het Lux Lab
15:15 - Isabel Nielen and Bastiaan Schoof – consultants and coördinators ALF
15:30 - break
16:00 - Rombout Frieling – OPEN LIGHT creative lab TU/e Intelligent Light Institute
16:30 - Koert Vermeulen – lightartist at ACTdesign (OVO)
17:00 - Q&A forum
17:30 - closing - drinks – souper
 
OPTIONAL:
+ 18:00 - canal cruise waterroute / not included - illuminade walk optional
+ 18:30/19:00 - start guided tour through illuminade - optional included
+ 19:30 > 21:15 - Stedelijk Museum – discussions on light-art – optional not included
*canal cruise ends at Stadhouderskade near Stedelijk Museum
*guided tours end near Muziektheater Amsterdam
 
Entry form >http://www.lichtontwerpen.nl/artikelen/symposium-lichtkunst-lightart-public-space