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Yahoo
24-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
From 6 Continents to Jing'an Shenyuli: Meet the Finalists of Shining Shanghai 2025
Shanghai, China--(Newsfile Corp. - July 24, 2025) - Since its debut in 2023, the Shining Shanghai (Jing'an) International Light Art Open Call has rapidly become China's leading international projection mapping event and a hub for global artistic exchange. The 2025 edition, themed "Luminescent Roots: Stories of Home," aims to express cultural identity through light with immersive audience experience. This year's concept submission successfully closed on July 5, with 154 submissions from 145 artists across 29 countries and regions of 6 continents—many of whom have been featured in major light festivals such as the Circle of Light and Lyon Festival of Lights, and recognized at global competitions like Tokyo 1 Minute Projection Mapping and iMapp Bucharest. Compared to its inaugural year, the number of participating artists in 2025 has nearly tripled, reflecting the open call's growing international influence. The enthusiastic response from both Chinese (62 artists) and international studios (83 artists) highlights the global recognition and creative energy that "Shining Shanghai" continues to inspire. The Finalists (in alphabetical order): AOTOO Studio (China): Tuphis Atmosphere Studio (Russia): Chudo Yudo Cheese_Trap Studio (China): At the Lattice, Stillness in the Flux CTC Lab (China): Cardinal Chroma Designlab (Tunisia): Oum Ezzine Woven Into History John Tettenborn & Kourtney Lara Ross (Germany): TAP Jonas Denzel (Germany): Echoes of Expression Kati Katona (Hungary): Essentia Los Romeras (Spain): Red Soul MetanoiaCreatives (Czech Republic): Crystalia MUMA Island (China): Luminelf MP Studio (Bulgaria): Peperuda: A Ritual for Rain NAOS Studio (Ukraine): REBIRTH neba studio (Macau): Homeland of the White NeonLab (China): Starlight Illusion PSI-Mediadata (Russia): KOLO SAM (China): Light-Cell Respiration (Indonesia): Variation Pink Summer & Co Studio (Thailand): Lightseed of a New Dawn The Fox, the Folks (Indonesia): Bhoma—EarthPulse The final jury meeting will take place in person on September 17 in Shanghai. All selected works will be exhibited at Shenyuli from September 29 to October 8, coinciding with China's National Week. Stay tuned for this dazzling celebration of light art! For more details, visit the official website: and follow on Instagram @shining_shanghai for updates. Media ContactCompany Name: Shining Shanghai Open CallWebsite: opencall@ Enze Wang To view the source version of this press release, please visit
News.com.au
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Vivid flips the switch on Sydney in first-night spectacular
The Sydney CBD lit up for the first night of the annual Vivid festival on Friday night. More than three million people are expected to hit the streets over the 23-day event, taking in over 40 installations and projections spread across the Harbour City. This year's theme is Dream – a vision of light, harmony and a future in balance. 'In 2025, Vivid Sydney invites you to dream big,' the official website reads. 'To go to the outer reaches of your mind, to think differently, without boundaries or preconceptions and to immerse yourself in new experiences and ideas. 'We want you to dream with the lights on, to daydream, to dream without boundaries, to soar.' Celebrations kicked off on Friday evening by First Light, a special welcome ceremony featuring Indigenous Australian dancers from NAISDA. Dancers in traditional wear, illuminated by bursts of fire and colourful lighting, brought Campbells Cove at The Rocks to life, followed by a free concert celebrating First Nations pride. Hosted by rapper Ziggy Ramo, visitors were invited to celebrate the next generation of Indigenous artists such as DJ Rona, Kaiit and Jeremy Whiskey in a one-night-only music extravaganza. One of Vivid's most highly-anticipated centrepieces is the lighting of the Opera House Sails. This year, it will display the works of David McDiarmid in Lighting of the Sails: Kiss of Light on the 30th anniversary of the artists death. The projections will act as a 'rallying cry for equality, inclusion and freedom', the festival organisers said, through a colourful and quirky lens – including slides of moving tiled shapes, rainbows and a green eyeball. Circular Quay is not the only spot to get in on the action. The festival will be split into five zones, including The Rocks, Barangaroo, Darling Harbour, The Goods Line and inner city and, for the first time since 2018, Martin Place. Things look a little different this year with Vivid deciding to scrap its drone show and make its famous light walk free. Destination NSW confirmed the decision to scrap the drone show, which has been part of the festival since 2021, in March citing safety concerns. It was thought the spectacle would bring in too many people and create dangerous conditions after crows were stuck in a bottleneck while trying to leave the western side of Circular Quay last year. Meanwhile, the light walk – which previously set festival-goers back $30 – will now be free as this year's festival aims to be as 'budget-friendly' as possible. 'We are all feeling the pinch in terms of the economy and cost-of-living crisis,' Festival director Gill Minervini said. 'I really wanted Vivid to respond to that. My job as director is to renovate and refresh the festival every year. 'We want audiences to come back time after time, and not think, 'Oh, it's the same old Vivid'. We want to keep everyone guessing.'
