Published on: November 28, 2008

Night Lights on the Canal is an event, organized by Scottsdale’s own Public Art Program, with the intent to enhance the quality of life for it’s residents and visitors. This has been their objective since their founding in 1985. This year’s event has been divided in three sets, occurring every third Thursday this autumn.

The first was on 16th of October featuring Mykl Wells’s Chimera, an installation with monumental lanterns in the form of animals, people and strange creatures, and Catherine Borg’s Illuminated Exchange inviting passersby to participate in the installation taking a LED light to wear and leave something in exchange. Michael Lundquist’s Blue Galaxy was an array of light, designed do bedazzle the spectators, being quite successful at it. Last, but not least, was Live Music by Human Mirror with a wide arrange of laptop, drumset, vocal, synth, loop and live video art, sparkling in millions of colors of light.

The second part was put on display on 20th of November. Joseph O’Connell presented himself with two installations. Tympani invited people make their own music and light show. Making Do with Little Water enabled the visitors to interact while controlling the flow of the water on O’Connell’s water projector. Mark Lottor’s established Cubatron 3-D array installation of tens of thousands of LED lights programmed with ever-changing effects and colors, managed to keep spectators posted for hours yet again.

Last set of installations is set on display on 18th of December. We are promised to see Jonathan Foote and Michael Prados and the Swarmies Collective’s SWARM, debuted at 2007’s Burning Man and Live Music by Peachcake.

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