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The
Light from Light
project was immersed in an audience flow estimated to exceed two million
people during its installation across the five venues. It is impossible to know what affect it had
on audiences, aware or unsuspecting. The substantial documentation of the various installation
settings builds a relatively instant snapshot of the otherwise slow art experience that infiltrated
the libraries.
I wish to extend my gratitude to all in this extended collaboration who contributed over the three
years of preparation and presentation – thank you.
Kim Machan is the director of MAAP, and curator of
Light from Light
.
1 MAAP and the State Library of Queensland have previ
innovative media art projects: in 2004
an online net art project (
MAAP in Singapore new media
d and delivered; and in 2006 a major
international media art project (
OUT OF THE INTERNET
) was presented with the cooperation and
involvement of staff, especially ICTS Department Inform
hnology Services, with the guiding
support of Dave Allen. It was with this background that i
to consider designing a project that
would span between Australia and China. Tory Jones, Partnership Development and Design Director until 2011, was
instrumental in advocating and promoting the collaboration.
2 Lea Giles Peters, State Librarian at State Library of Queensland, 2000-2011.
3 Gregor, Mary J. (trans. and ed.) 1996.
Practical Philosophy/ Immanuel Kant
. New York: Cambridge University Press.
