Smart Light Sydney
from Smart Light Sydney: Conceived by Sydney born, Lighting Designer and Music Composer Mary-Anne Kyriakou. The festival idea came about three years ago on a trip to Frankfurt’s largest light fair in the world. Mary-Anne experienced Luminale the associated Light Festival which was a life changing experience and upon her return to Australia she created the not for profit Smart Light Sydney™ organisation with Barry Webb and Davina Jackson.
The uniqueness of Smart Light Sydney™ compared with any other artificial light festival in the world is the focus on delivering Light Art works that are driven by innovation and energy conscious awareness and design. Smart Light Sydney™ has initiated a program to offset the lamp power consumption by the installations through engaging city building tenants to commit to switching off lights after 7pm for the festival period. A positive outcome is that the festival is using considerably less power than the turn off lights campaign.
The focus on lamp power consumption reflects the approach taken by the Building Code of Australia to regulate lamp power consumption in office buildings and building designers to comply with these set standards. The code is not prescriptive in how the power is to be consumed thus giving designers many options to be creative.
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