This year the Winston-Salem Light Project will, once again, bring cutting edge technology to create art, light and magic in Winston-Salem. The project was conceived to powerfully demonstrate the impact of light as an artistic medium in urban contexts. This year’s project is WSLP 2009 Re-Imagining Resources.

Students from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, School of Design and Production, are projecting images onto the Pepper building with inspiration provided by issues of resource use and population growth. Four students will visually interpret the mind numbing statistics we encounter daily concerning these issues. Unique images representing resource use will run in a loop on the eight-story west façade of the Pepper building illustrating the enormity of the issue and the creativity of students in a scale that speaks to the issue as well.

Taking place over three consecutive evenings, during the 6 Days in November Event and concurrent with the Piedmont Craftsmen Fair, it is hoped that the members of the public who experience the installation will view the project as public art in its own right as well as be moved to think about the issues represented by the images created by the students.

“I do know that when we reflect on a difficult question in the absence of an answer, our attention can turn inward, and in that space may exist the possibility of some evolution of thought or action.” Chris Jordon.

PRESENTED BY:
The Winston-Salem Light Project
The University of North Carolina School of the Arts
School of Design and Production
Winston-Salem, NC

MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH GRANTS FROM:
The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County
Wachovia - A Wells Fargo Company

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