The Sydney Harbour Bridge will be the centrepiece of a new interactive light installation for Vivid Sydney, with 32 Hundred Lighting to create a world-first immersive projection onto the bridge’s western face.

The lighting will be controlled by the public from an interactive touch screen located on the Luna Park boardwalk.

The expansion also marks the first time the Vivid Light Walk will cross the harbour into the North Sydney precinct.

Vivid partner, Intel Australia, has teamed up with Sydney-based lightwork innovators 32 Hundred Lighting to create the installation, which will be controlled by the public from an interactive touch screen located on the Luna Park boardwalk.

From 6.00pm to midnight every night, between 24 May and 10 June, spectators will be able to choose the scene and colour of the projection beamed along the upper and lower arches and the road deck of the western face of Sydney Harbour Bridge.

32 Hundred Lighting will design the installation including 100,800 individual programmable LEDs and a state-of-the-art custom-designed software program with an interactive touch screen interface.

NSW Deputy Premier and Minister for Trade and Investment Andrew Stoner said the extension of Vivid Light to a Sydney icon in collaboration with Intel is an exciting and ambitious expansion of Vivid Sydney in 2013.

“In a world-first, the Harbour Bridge will become the centrepiece of an interactive light projection, allowing the public to play and interact with the bridge for the first time in its history.

A Vivid Sydney 2013 light installation.

“Last year Vivid attracted record crowds of more than 500,000 people. With the Sydney Harbour Bridge installation set to be visible from Balmain, North Sydney and a multitude of Harbourside vantage points on the Western side of the bridge, the event is now accessible to more people than ever before.

Vivid Sydney is owned and managed by Destination NSW, the State’s major events and tourism agency, has grown to be the largest festival of light, music and ideas in the Southern Hemisphere, promoting Sydney’s creative industries.

Other key events will include the world famous lighting of the Sydney Opera House sails, which will be designed by Australian creative innovators, The Spinifex Group, and showcase a newly commissioned artwork ‘that will transport audiences through a playfully projected journey’. (pictured below)

The full Vivid Sydney program is available at http://vividsydney.com

David Wheeldon

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