Eco Factor: Light art festival uses renewable energy and sustainable materials.
Asia’s first eco-friendly light art festival started in Singapore and showcases a variety of sustainable lighting installations that either use recycled materials or renewable energy for illumination. Christened the i-Light Marina Bay, the festival showcases 25 light art installations along Marina Bay’s shores.
Marrying art with new technology challenges, the designers have made use of LEDs, solar power and discarded cooking oil in their creations. The highlights of the show are static displays such as “Fire Flies” by designer Francesco Mariotti, which uses recycled PET bottles and blinking diodes to mimic fireflies.
Other attractions include fishing rods mounted onto each of the four pods on The Helix Bridge. Here the passersby use a hand crank to generate renewable electricity to light up LEDs that will pose as the fishing line.
Via: CNNGo
