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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Every 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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The 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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The 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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The 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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Light, 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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A 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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