One of the brightest events in the life of the Russian capital is recognized as the Circle of Light festival. The audience’s reviews clearly reflect the atmosphere of the holiday, which is often called the festival of light.
The first festivals of light
For the first time such a holiday was held in the XIX century in Lyon. A kind of festival was purely religious in nature. It was a celebration dedicated to the worship of the Virgin Mary, who saved the city from the plague. The inhabitants of Lyon, in gratitude to her, put candles in the windows, which filled the city with magical light. Nowadays, this holiday has become secular and attracts millions of tourists.
With the development of technology, light festivals have become larger. These are whole performances on the streets of cities. Modern holidays are multimedia and laser shows, video mapping. They are held annually in Berlin, Prague, Lyon, Jerusalem and other cities of the world. Over the past four years, a similar festival could be seen in Moscow.
Unique project
According to the idea of the organizers of the project, its main idea is to express the speed of the ongoing changes in modern society, to demonstrate the full power of the latest technologies. And it is worth noting that they succeeded! The Circle of Light festival was first held in Moscow in 2011 and since then it has not ceased to amaze every year with its grandiose performances, which are simply impossible not to see.
As part of a unique project, art artists and designers from around the world demonstrate unlimited possibilities in audiovisual art, which is a 3D projection on the facades of famous buildings, structures and cultural monuments of the city. Integrating their ideas into the architectural space of Moscow, they create an unforgettable video mapping.
For spectators, free entrance to all venues of the Circle of Light festival. Reviews on light art technologies are filled with true enthusiasm. Spectators simply cannot but be amazed by musical and multimedia performances, light installations, filling each of the festival sites involved with light energy.
Spectators can also join educational programs, gain certain knowledge by visiting master classes by leading artists in the field of lighting technology. All master classes are free, but required pre-registration on the official website of the project.
Positive resonance
The Circle of Light festival was held in 2011 with great success . A new holiday show using innovative lighting technologies has caused a positive response worldwide. The very first holding of such an event in Moscow made it possible to put the festival on a par with the largest similar performances in other countries of the world.
The first "Circle of Light" in Moscow was held only at three main venues: Manezhnaya and Red Square, Gorky Park. Over 360 light installations have been demonstrated here. The festival allowed to identify the most talented masters of
architectural lighting, made it possible to use international experience in the thematic, lighting design of the city.
In the following years of its holding, all the leading trends in video design and light were concentrated in the capital. It is precisely the Circle of Light festival that can help Moscow become a unique epicenter of multimedia events in the world. Reviews its success and scope have already scattered around the world.
ART VISION
Circle of Light is an international show. Both masters of their craft and beginning specialists from around the world participate in it. Contestants have the opportunity to demonstrate their work as part of the ART-VISION contest. In October 2014, their works were presented in the following types of art: classic architectural video mapping, modern video mapping, and widgeting.
Evaluates the work of the contestants by an international jury, which includes well-known professionals from the field of design, architecture, lighting technology.
Competition Evaluation Criteria
The jury in the same composition impartially judges the submitted works of the contest participants. Each of the nominations is evaluated by them according to certain criteria. They are based on the following conditions:
- Uniqueness and originality of performance.
- Creativity of the presented idea, execution concept, design in the disclosure of the theme and in the use of the environment.
- The integrity of the topic, the narrative.
- The quality of the director's work.
- Musical background.
- Effective application of various technologies in creating a work.
- The response of the audience.
- Transformation. Change through mapping and content a sense of space.
- Technique of execution.
- Effects.
- Multimedia Integration.
Light script
The Circle of Light in Moscow is being prepared according to specially developed individual scenarios. For the artistic illumination of bridges, buildings, monuments, highways, a certain gamut of colors of various light dynamics is selected. Great attention is paid to lighting so that it does not interrupt or distract from the already existing historical image of the capital, from its landscape and architectural silhouettes.
The festival gives a unique charm to the season. In the autumn period, when the level of lighting falls, and daylight hours are significantly reduced, a laser show, 3D projections and hundreds of light objects create a unique, vibrant holiday atmosphere. The Circle of Light festival attracts millions of spectators who come to watch magnificent video illusions, abstract stories and amazing performances.
The ingenious idea of a light show was appreciated. Colorfulness, amazing effects, light in incredible incarnations, classical arias that sound new in this illumination, attract more and more viewers from different parts of the world to the Circle of Light. Reviews about the festival are unusually positive, from what they saw people were really breathtaking.
A new image of the city
In 2012, a multimedia show held on Red Square shocked the colorfully illustrated story of the origin and development of life on the planet. Its main theme was the origin and development of the world. The opening of the festival took on truly universal proportions, and it ended with a chamber story about the origin of light directly in the human soul.
Reviews from the audience testified to the extraordinary scale of the festival. The light show literally swept the whole city. It seemed to the residents and guests of the capital that they were in a magical world.
Festival “Circle of Light” in Moscow in subsequent years, he also prepared many surprises for his visitors. Five evenings of the third festival opened an amazing video projection “On the Birth and Journey of Fire”, light performances “The Image of Russia” and “Ballet, Decor, Movement” were shown to the audience.
The fourth festival, the theme of which was chosen around the world trip, recognized as the most ambitious. For its use, 8 sites were used: Ostankino, Tsaritsyno, VDNH, Bolshoi Theater, Digital October, Manezhnaya Square, Kuznetsk Bridge.
During the festival, tens of thousands of
Moscow yards
, facades of historical buildings and structures, hundreds of streets, parks and squares were lit, and the production “Around the World in Less Than an Hour” was shown. The main heroine of the performance was the Ostankino Tower, which, in front of the audience, was reincarnated as the Tokyo and Eiffel towers and other equally famous buildings.
It was difficult to express in words the admiration for the performances that the Moscow Circle of Light festival demonstrated. Reviews from the incredible play of light, beauty and grace testify to the success of the project. A well-thought-out educational program leaves a lot of enthusiasm. Master classes in video mapping and lectures from the creators of lighting installations, world-famous lighting shows, developers of modern software for the production of audio-visual content reveal unprecedented opportunities for the multimedia technology and lighting design industry.
Reviews
The Circle of Light festival in Moscow is grandiose and unusual holiday show. By the number of participants and the scale of the performances in the fall of 2014, he exceeded the record of previous years.
The fairy-tale spectacle, prepared by the best art artists from around the world, captivated the audience who visited the Circle of Light. Their feedback just about the opening of the festival was mainly in the words "fantastically beautiful, unforgettable, incredible."
The art of a color show turned autumn night into a colorful fairy tale, allowed the viewer to travel across all continents, to observe unusual abstract installations of various genres and styles.
Lucky and those who were able to watch the broadcast of the show at home on TV. There was a feeling that not a single detail was missing, which allowed viewers to also take part in a kind of time travel.
The closing of the “Circle of Light” festival gave a lot of pleasant feelings. Reviews of the incredible bewitching beauty of light performances and their scale are clear evidence that those who still have not had a chance to visit this magnificent and enchanting spectacle should definitely do this next year.
Event tourism
The main objective of the festival was the development of event tourism. The demonstration of the latest technologies in the field of light attracts more and more people from all over the world. The Circle of Light is an extraordinary festival that allows you to transform the familiar urban space with the help of lighting technology. This bright holiday is a synthesis of fine, light and plastic art. These are new trends in the field of architectural and lighting design in the country. The festival became the hallmark of Moscow, one of the components of the city’s brand.