一场关于光艺术的展示与思考
『今年阿姆斯特丹灯光节的主题是“媒介即讯息”，是加拿大传播学家马歇尔·麦克卢汉的著名理论。光的功能和角色是传递讯息，阿姆斯特丹成为一个传播信息和讲述故事的载体。』
本届灯光节有来自16个多家的29件作品，讲述城市的故事，我们从作品里听听设计师们的声音......
Waiting...
Frank Foole
当我们在电脑或手机上下载，缓存，更新或重启时，我们就可以看到这种滚动的转轮图标。
We can all recognise the rotating wheel that appearson our computer and phone screens when we have to wait for something todownload, buffer, update or restart.
VirtualFairground
由于不断增加的游客以及拥挤的人潮，阿姆斯特丹市中心看起来像一个游乐场。这让本地居民有点困扰，期待政府能够做一些事降低游客对当地居民生活的影响。
Thanks tothe increasing tourism and growing crowds, Amsterdam’s city centre can feellike an amusement park. Local residents are getting more and more annoyed andencouraging the municipality to do something about it.
Two Lamps
Jeroen Henneman
两盏巨大的灯矗立在黄金弯两侧的灯柱上，形成一道独特的风景。设计师 Jeroen Henneman 特别为该河湾设计了这款 “两盏灯”。此处曾是阿姆斯特丹最富有的人居住的地方，目前是律师，银行家，保险从业者的办公地点。
The twogigantic lamps that appear between lampposts on the Golden Bend are a wonderfulsight. Jeroen Henneman created 'Two Lamps' specifically for this beautiful partof the canal; it’s where the wealthiest people in Amsterdam once lived and wherelawyers, bankers and insurance advisors now work.
Transmission
Serge Schoemaker
八小时，四十五分钟，这是我们平均每天花在媒体的时间上，这意味着我们一生三分之一的时间用于看，听，浏览，电话，网聊，邮件，游戏等，这是令人震惊的。
Eighthours and forty-five minutes, that’s how much time we spend on average per dayon media. That’s means we spend one third of our lives watching, listening,browsing, calling, Whatsapping, emailing and gaming, which is a surprising (oreven shocking) amount of our time.
Victor Engbers & Ina Smits
该作品由识别性较强的，巨大的两个红绿灯人行标志组成，当一个亮了，另一个就灭了；他们虽然近在迟尺，却又总是擦肩而过。
This workconsists of two huge sculptures that we immediately recognize as the figuresfrom a pedestrian traffic light. When one appears, the other disappears; theyconstantly slip away from each other. Now they’ve escaped and are about tomeet.
Ivana Jelić & Pavle Petrović
设计师梵高在他给他兄弟西奥的信中提到：星光总是让我充满遐想。由于对星空的喜爱，使得他在法国南部的机构任职时，曾常常以他看到的星空之夜为背景作画。
“The sightof stars always makes me dream,” Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) wrote in one ofhis many letters to his brother Theo. Even at the time he had been admitted toan institution in the South of France, he enjoyed painting and drawing thestarry night skies that he saw there.
Groupe LAPS
如果你有蜘蛛恐惧症，那你会很害怕经过这个桥，因为桥上都是大大小小有80余只蜘蛛造型，每个大概两米宽，由 LED 制作而成。经过电脑编程预设，实现最终看似自由散落，实则簇拥而成。
If youhave arachnophobia, you might want to avoid this bridge since the biggestspider you’ve ever seen is perched prominently on top of it. Groupe LAPS’'SPIDER on the Bridge' consists of 80 spiders, each 2-metres wide, made oftubes containing LED light. The light is programmed in such a way that thecreatures appear to actually crawl around.
Marcus Neustetter
我们往往是在投射的影子而非事物本身，光影的交错，彼此成就。日本作家古崎润一郎曾在其1933年的作品《阴翳礼赞》中写到：“如果没有影子，就没有美”。
"We find beauty not in the thing itself but inthe patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing againstanother creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty,” wroteJapanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki in his famous essay 'Praise of Shadows' in1933.
Picto Sender Machine
Felipe Prado
该作品呈现出低分辨率产生的视觉效果，不仅分辨率不仅比我们日常看到的低，而且比1957年的第一代数码照片的像素还要低。
The resolution of the images that Felipe Prado’s'Picto Sender Machine' produces is not only lower than we’re used to but isactually lower than the resolution of the first-ever digital photograph from1957.
Parabolic Lightcloud
amigo & amigo
在该作品的搭建中，设计师使用了1000个光源想要把无形变有型：比如用光点亮人们的情绪。
In their installation 'Parabolic Lightcloud', Renzo B.Larriviere and Simone Chua (amigo & amigo) use more than 1,000 lights tomake something invisible visible: our human emotions.
Ode aan de Mol
Piet Hume
有时某个地点本身就是一个信息，是属于庞大信息系统的一个部分，传递信息对我们而言很重要，我们常常自以为自己很有文化，但你是否能真的理解你所遇到这样的信息传递方式，有时可能并不会太理解。
"This place is a message... And part of a systemof messages... pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us.We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture." Would you understandwhat you’re dealing with when reading a text like this? Probably not, and wedon’t blame you.
O.T. 976
Stefan Reiss
将复杂的科学理论用一种创新性的，娱乐性的的方式呈现出来-这是该作品设计师的独特之处，也是该作品的灵感来源。
Presenting complicated scientific theories in aplayful, creative way – it’s what Stefan Reiss does like no other. It’s notsurprising then that Reiss found inspiration for his artwork 'O.T. 976' in afamous theory that tries to explain everything in our universe.
Night Vision
Tom Biddulph & Barbara Ryan
这个作品的特点是将光与信息做类比，光经过处理和设计，最终呈现出这样的景象，正如信息一样，通过大脑内部复杂的信息处理过程，最终被大脑接收，是将抽象具体化的过程。
Something very special happens when you read thistext. Information, shaped like light, enters your eye. Through a complex systemof nerve- and sensory cells, the information is then translated into stimulithat your brain will receive.
TOCHKA
用光作画-听起来很魔幻，而且不可能，但其实人们从1889年起就开始这么做了，将光划过黑暗的地方，然后用照相机慢慢捕捉其移动的轨迹。
Painting with light - it sounds magical butimpossible. But people have been doing it for a long time – since 1889! It’snot difficult to do, you move a lamp through a dark space and capture thesemovements in a photograph using a camera with a slow shutter speed.
