Throw Distance
Notes on light, space, and spectacle — what caught our attention this week across lighting, architecture, art, stagecraft, and the technology of shared experience.
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Borrowed Rooms
Marina Abramović dies seven times in a Copenhagen water reservoir, a Berlin foundation shows in nightclubs on purpose, and the format for lighting a building you are not allowed to touch turns seventy-four.
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Issue 012Oct 1, 2026The Colour Version of the Subtitles
A composer who writes 'Orange \ Sacrum' on a stave, a violinist wearing three thousand LEDs at the Met, and the 1911 score that asked for light and never said how to play it.
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Issue 011Sep 24, 2026Ceilings for the Car Process
The craft moves overhead: a Spielberg film run like a live show, a London ceiling built for windscreen reflections, opera supertitles turned into scenery, and Keith Sonnier's first neon.
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Issue 010Sep 17, 2026Thirty-Two Universes, No Console
This week: a six-month water show recorded once and played back without its lighting desk, 2,977 lights over New York Harbor, and a Paris bridge that opened nine days late.
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Issue 009Sep 10, 2026The Laboratory and the Gallery Floor
This week: a supercomputing laboratory takes a 2.5-acre facade, three LED monoliths draw their last shadows in Detroit, 87 pixel battens become stage architecture for Lenny Kravitz, and a press release gets a festival's dates wrong.
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Issue 008Sep 3, 2026Ongoing, No End Date
This week: seventy-five thousand paper kites with no closing date, a hundred and fifteen channels of migrating voices, and a Victorian pumping station open for five days.
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Issue 007Aug 27, 2026The Cinema and the Museum
This week: two Singapore landmarks turned into a judged competition and a folklore canvas, a moving light that folds a pixel-mappable screen into its own face, and 250-plus fixtures across two stages at Ultra Europe.
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Issue 006Aug 20, 2026Every Fixture Knew Where It Was
This week: eighty lights that told the console where they were, a diffusion pipeline that treats a building as its own constraint, and a hall in Santa Fe holding two kinds of almost-nothing.
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Issue 005Aug 13, 2026The Monument and the Main Hall
This week: lasers on Lady Liberty, a Town Hall dissolved in light, and a new home for light art in Durham.
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Issue 004Aug 6, 2026The Tower and the Kaleidoscope
This week: the world's largest permanent projection runs nightly on a Tokyo tower, seven decades of Julio Le Parc turn Tate Modern into a playground, and a season of machine-made art asks what comes after us.
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Issue 003Jul 30, 2026The Power Plant and the Archive
This week: one canvas for every artist at Electric Forest, twenty light works fill a Hungarian power plant, and two long runs reach their final days.
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Issue 002Jul 23, 2026Light, at Civic Scale
This week: a national museum opens with light as its first language, Los Angeles builds the world's largest pop-up book, and two landmark light shows enter their final days.
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Issue 001Jul 16, 2026A museum taught an AI to dream in public
This week: the Smithsonian facade, 58 moving battens, the case for darkness, and the ceiling everyone finally looks at.
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