Lumière 2025

Memories of Colour (The Wilder)

Squamish artist The Wilder transforms 1800 Davie Plaza into an illuminated coral reef with Memories of Colour — a glowing installation that celebrates the beauty of the ocean while drawing attention to coral bleaching and the need for environmental care. Immersive and vibrant, the piece reminds us of our connection to the natural world and the importance of protecting it. Through light, colour, and form, it invites visitors to reflect on our shared responsibility for the ecosystems that sustain us.

Melanie Lazelle is an experienced creator, project manager, and founder of The Wilder, a Squamish-based social enterprise merging art, sustainability, and storytelling. Her work spans festivals, public art, and environmental installations that connect people with nature through creativity. From Squamish’s first winter lights experience to an augmented-reality art walk, her projects inspire connection, curiosity, and care for the planet.

DecaDance (TheEgg Arts Society)

DecaDance surrounds visitors with reflection and rhythm. Massive two-way mirrored panels form a ten-sided pavilion, while a central spinning LED-lit dance pole casts light in shifting kaleidoscopic patterns.

Created collaboratively by more than 30 artists within The Egg Arts Society, DecaDance celebrates geometry, motion, and collective creativity—transforming mirrored surfaces into a living, moving sculpture of light and sound.

Saṃsāra (Patrick Conlan)

Saṃsāra is an exploration into the intertwined dimensions of our perceived reality and the illusions of the mind. An installation that creates depth through the narrow and endlessness within the finite. This unique sculpture and its dazzling LED array may be the infinity mirror that opens your eyes to a whole new way of being.

A lifelong student of science and humanities, Patrick enjoys exploring the melding of grand ideas and technological artwork. His artistic pursuits have included writing poetry, game design, video production, interactive multimedia, and LED sculptures. During Patrick’s workday, he helps design and install electrical systems for large commercial buildings.

Recycled Reflections (Will Donaldson)

Recycled Reflections transforms discarded materials into an optical wonder. Eight quarter-dome security mirrors—once destined for landfill—are arranged at the corners of a cube and sealed with two-way mirror panels. Inside, LED strips ricochet into a warped, infinite bloom.

Will Donaldson is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersection of technology, nature, and mathematics. Using wood, mechanics, LEDs, and robotics, he creates kinetic sculptures that reveal the inherent beauty within mathematics, physics, and parametric design.

Crafting Station (Madeleine Chaffee / MaddlesMade)

Inspired by DecaDance, this free drop-in crafting station invites visitors of all ages to explore pattern, reflection, and light on a handheld scale. Running Thursday – Saturday, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM, guests can build their own sparkling kaleidoscope using cardboard, beads, sequins, and other shiny materials. Guided by artist Madeleine Chaffee (MaddlesMade), each creation reveals shifting colours and mesmerizing designs with every twist.

Madeleine Chaffee is a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist and designer whose playful practice blends sculpture, light, and upcycled materials. Passionate about sustainability and creative exploration, she helps others spark imagination through hands-on art experiences that celebrate curiosity, joy, and participation.

Infinite Fire Lounge (Fiction Factory Props / Juan Pablo Gonzalez)

The Infinite Fire Lounge is a captivating light and heat installation that transforms elemental fire into an infinite, mirrored spectacle. Within its sculptural structure, flame and reflection merge—flickering endlessly across mirrored panels to create the illusion of boundless energy and warmth.

Accompanied by Infinity Fire and Astro Turf, the installation forms an immersive communal space where visitors can pause, reflect, and connect. The mirrored firelight, infinite reflections, and soft green surface together reimagine the timeless act of gathering around a flame—celebrating connection, contemplation, and creativity.Juan Pablo Gonzalez is a multidisciplinary artist and founder of Fiction Factory Props, a creative studio known for large-scale, interactive installations that blend craftsmanship, technology, and storytelling. His work transforms elemental forces like fire and light into shared experiences that invite curiosity and wonder.

Shutterbuggy (TheEgg Arts Society)

The Shutterbuggy is a mobile photo booth modeled after a 1940s camera. Visitors climb inside to take photos and get a souvenir print out.

TheEgg Arts Society is an interactive art incubator providing education and training for artists.

CONVERGE (Interim Collective)

CONVERGE is a site-specific laser and sound installation exploring our connection to our surroundings through laser triangulation—the intersecting beams forming precise, shifting geometric patterns. These luminous intersections invite viewers to trace the evolving paths of light, mirroring the individual journey within a larger network. In these fleeting, vivid moments, the work evokes cohesion, where personal trajectories converge within the collective whole.

Eric Cheung is an interdisciplinary dance artist and Creative Director of Interim Collective. His work merges dance with film, theatre, digital media, and installation to explore unorthodox forms of movement. Recent projects include ARRAY, a laser-based movement installation at VIVO Media Arts Centre. He is the 2025 recipient of the Chrystal Prize and the Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award.

Poems of Positivity (Orlosky Studio)

Poems of Positivity is an interactive sculptural installation designed to inspire optimism and connection through community participation. Comprised of three towers featuring nine unique poems, the work invites contributions from the public—each poem crafted from words submitted in response to the question: “What makes you feel positive?” These collective expressions are transformed into illuminated, three-dimensional forms that celebrate joy, gratitude, and shared human experience.

Andrea and Kevin Orlosky are public artists and founders of Orlosky Studio, based in Burnaby, BC. Both graduates of the Savannah College of Art and Design, they previously co-founded Art on Wheels, a nonprofit delivering therapeutic arts programming to thousands annually. Through Orlosky Studio, they continue to bridge community engagement and public art, creating installations across North America that merge social practice with creative storytelling. Their work has been featured in CODAmag and numerous public art commissions.

Canopy (Tangible Interaction)

Canopy is a collaboration between Downtown Van BIA and Tangible Interaction featuring 3,000 programmable lights meant to embody the Aurora Borealis and salmon swimming upstream and illuminating Robson Square.

Tangible Interaction is a Vancouver-based art and design studio dedicated to creating experiences and products that connect and inspire here and now. 

Crystal Math (Foxlight Labs)

Crystal Math’ is an interactive infinity-mirror light art sculpture, featuring three enormous crystals of enormous size, arranged in a cluster and mounted to a base. Inspired by the natural crystal forms in nature, the mirror geometry produces a mesmerizing pattern of light and dark. The piece is sound activated and makes light patterns based on musical inputs.

Foxlight Labs is a group of light artists and scientists from Eugene, OR who push the boundaries of perception with lights, music, and mirrors. They have been working together for the past six years, bringing creations inspired by nature and geometry to various community events and festivals. With a focus on interactive light art, their creations blend the senses of participants, evoking a state of wonder and childlike enthusiasm in those who engage with them.

Wish (Foxlight Labs)

Wish is an illuminated, interactive sculpture of a dandelion in various states of development! Surrounding an upright 6 ft stem, instantly recognizable sawtooth leaves extend out around the base of the piece. This year, the flower is in bloom, with yellow light up petals which close and retract based on the behavior of nearby observers. This allows the audience to become a part of this oversized natural wonder. If, as is our wish, this piece returns in the future, the flower will have gone to seed, and will feature removable light-up seed florets.

Foxlight Labs is a group of light artists and scientists from Eugene, OR who push the boundaries of perception with lights, music, and mirrors. They have been working together for the past six years, bringing creations inspired by nature and geometry to various community events and festivals. With a focus on interactive light art, their creations blend the senses of participants, evoking a state of wonder and childlike enthusiasm in those who engage with them.

Painting Mirror (Maxime Touroute)

Painting Mirror is an interactive videomapping where audience photos are projected and transformed in the style of great artists (painting, street art, drawing). The styles are generated by Artificial Intelligence. Maxime adapts the scenography to each presentation to use artists’ styles related to the event and locality. This mapping allows for the valorization of local creative heritage in an accessible manner while raising awareness about usages of Artificial Intelligence.

Maxime works at the intersection of creativity and technology, collaborating with artistic teams and cultural organizations of all kinds. He explores cutting-edge technologies to unlock new forms of artistic expression and actively shares his creative software to reduce technical barriers, foster collaboration, and democratize digital creation. As both an engineer and entrepreneur, Maxime embraces ambitious ideas and thrives on turning complex challenges into imaginative, tangible experiences.

Qwasen (Debra Sparrow)

There’s a saying:  There’s a light at the end of the tunnel … it’s not at the end.  It is with “you “. Too many people have had someone or something dim their light.  It is experiences like this, Lumiere,  that shines a light of beautiful patterns in the darkness.  Weaving reminds us that we merely have to look up at the universe,  where the stars shine for us.  Every single night. Faithful to our existence, floating down to connect us, that we might find ways to ignite  us deep within. …Light to light. Connecting.  Hope, Faith, Love.  For all humanity.  Qwasen. Star. Let the light guide us.

 Debra Sparrow is a Musqueam weaver, artist and knowledge keeper.

Moving Art 2025 – Unity (Various, curated by Eastside Arts Society)

“Alone we are thread, together we are cloth.”

Unity explores the beauty of connection – between people, ideas, and the natural world. From the intimate act of braiding hair to the intricate weaving of textiles, these works trace the ways in which individuality intertwines into collective creation. Artists this year draw together disparate strands: nature and a human voice, community and solitude, digital signal with analogue process.

Each piece reminds us that unity is not uniformity, but the rhythm of many parts moving as one. Together, these works assemble a vision from fragments of memory and perspective, a liminal cloak that once opened reveals our togetherness in grief, our oneness with nature, and our mutual love for the buildings that hold our history. Even the great cat distribution system reveals its hand – evidence that harmony exists in the most mysterious networks of all.

Threads meet. Worlds overlap. The tree becomes greater than its rings.

APOGEE (Chalk River Labs)

APOGEE is an immersive projection sculpture transforming public space into a realm of cosmic wonder. Measuring 25 feet wide and 14 feet tall, the aluminum structure features two swings and benches surrounded by vibrant, projection-mapped visuals and an original 80s synthwave soundtrack. Blending art, technology, and interactivity, APOGEE invites visitors to play, connect, and swing through space—celebrating imagination and the infinite possibilities of the universe.

Chalk River Labs is an award-winning Australian creative studio founded by multidisciplinary artist Jay Tettamanti. Known for experiential installations that merge projection, audio, and sculpture, Chalk River Labs transforms simple structures into mesmerizing immersive experiences inspired by nature’s symmetry and geometry.

IRIDESCENCE (Niko Tiainen)

IRIDESCENCE is an interactive, generative, site-specific video installation that explores the entangled relationship between environment, perception, and digital transformation. Drawing from themes of surveillance, ecological change, and the aesthetics of natural systems, the work reflects how landscapes are continuously shaped by both human activity and natural forces.

At the center of the work are wave-like forms inspired by the ever-changing patterns of the sea. These patterns are controlled by the presence of viewers—subtly shifting in response to interaction. Like surveillance systems, the installation senses without revealing what is being sensed, remaining opaque and unpredictable in its behavior.

Niko Tiainen is a multidisciplinary artist from Finland, specialising in large-scale outdoor projection mapping and light installations. With a background in classical music, composition, graphic design, and a Master’s in New Media Design (Aalto University), his work blends conceptual ideas with procedural forms and musical structure. His installations have appeared in over 30 countries, including Ars Electronica (Linz), Lightbox Gallery (New York), and the Theatre of Digital Art (Dubai).

Voxelite (Tyler Soon / Tybot Labs)

Voxelite transforms three-dimensional space into a canvas of light with over 20,000 suspended LEDs. Surrounded by sound and sensor stations, it responds to interaction with rippling patterns that seem to communicate in a visual language all of its own. Venture into a realm where light doesn’t just shine—it breathes, dances, and plays.

Tyler Soon combines code with creativity to craft interactive, radiant art installations. His work aims to foster smiles and connections through wondrous, decommodified experiences. These playful creations have lit up the desert at Burning Man, the forests of BC, and the streets of his hometown of Vancouver.

Lux Memoriae: Waters That Unite Us (Ari Lazer)

Lux Memoriae (Memory in Light) features glowing acrylic lanterns inspired by the contours of the Fraser River. They are designed to connect viewers to their relationship with the waters in our ecosystem that provide our livelihood and connect us to one another.

Ari Lazer is an interdisciplinary artist based on Salt Spring Island, BC. Inspired by the elegance of nature, Lazer has focused his practice on a modern exploration of the classical Quadrivium – the study of harmonic relationship in geometry, number, music and cosmology.

Ari has created work with a wide range of organizations including the Vancouver Art Gallery, Bass Coast, Motion Notion, and Shambhala Music Festival. He also served as Artistic Producer for Public Dreams’ Illuminares Lantern Festival and Parade of Lost Souls.

The Timekeepers (Ember Arts Fire Society)

The Ember Arts Fire Society lights up the plaza at the Vancouver Art Gallery with a high-energy fire performance nightly from Nov. 13-16, 2025. This Vancouver-based non-profit collective is dedicated to promoting fire performance and flow arts through creativity, community, and safe practices. With a captivating blend of choreographed fire dance and skilled prop manipulation, the troupe transforms the night into a spectacle of flame, rhythm, and artistry. 

Performances: 7:15, 8:00 & 8:45PM

Ember Arts Fire Society is a collective of skilled fire performers dedicated to the art of movement and flame.

Luxtriplicata (Johan Fredrik Källman)

Luxtriplicata is an interactive, family-friendly light installation that fuses art, science, and play. At its heart is a rotatable plate holding cube-shaped glass prisms, illuminated by a white light source. As visitors move and adjust the prisms, the light splits into a vibrant rainbow that fills the space with colour and motion.

Inspired by natural phenomena like rainbows, the piece connects audiences to the elemental beauty of light while celebrating sustainability, imagination, and joy.

Swedish light artist Johan Fredrik Källman’s work can be described as a blend of art and science, infused with a large dose of playfulness. He masterfully combines light, color, sound, and optics to create interactive installations where the visitors take center stage. His visionary innovations have gained global recognition, leading to invitations to showcase his artworks at some of the biggest light festivals around the world.

Tide (Sunny Liu, CINEMAGIC Innovations Ltd. & Janice Heu)

“Tide” is an immersive projection installation that unites the human body, music, and light into a seamless experience. Using live motion capture and responsive visuals, the work projects onto canvases where the collective movements of the crowd generate abstract, tidal-like patterns. As sound and visuals respond harmoniously, participants become creators and performers, embodying the natural rhythms that connect us all.

Sunny Liu is an emerging artist debuting her first public installation. Originally from the mountainous regions of China, she draws inspiration from the natural rhythms of rivers, forests, and shifting weather. Her interactive works blend light, sound, and human movement to explore the invisible connections between people and their environment. Tide invites audiences into a shared experience of reflection, unity, and creativity.

CINEMAGIC Innovations Ltd. is a Vancouver lighting studio specializing in custom interactive lighting and light-art installations for festivals, events, and fashion shows. With in-house design—from 3D-printed housings to custom PCBs and controllers—CINEMAGIC creates modular LED systems that deliver dynamic visual experiences. Led by CEO Mohsen Basiti, a firmware and IoT expert, and CTO Amir Shahir, a PhD in Computer Science specializing in adaptive lighting and AI, the company transforms light into intelligent, immersive storytelling.

Janice Heu, known as HEU, is a Vancouver-based DJ, music producer, and architecture student at UBC. A resident artist with VANTEK, she has performed alongside acts such as Maddix, KAAZE, and Danny Avila. As part of the Lumiere Festival team, she helps create immersive events that fuse light, sound, and emerging talent. Through her studies and music, Janice explores how sound and space shape collective experience.

一起就美好 – A Moment Together

All The Stars We Cannot See (Gao Yujie & Megan Smith)

All the Stars We Cannot See is an immersive installation that situates participants within a virtual sky activated by 25,500+ satellites orbiting Earth. Smith & Gao are working to render visible the global impact of satellite density.

This artwork was made to build opportunity for discussion on the impact of colonizing space, and to bring awareness to growing surveillance and the political and economical driving forces that are currently occupying space. 

Gao Yujie holds a PhD from University of British Columbia from the Digital Arts and Humanities program, where she is a Sessional Lecturer in Creative and Media Studies. Her generative participatory performance work studies the materiality of duration and explores the elasticity of space and time in rule-based interactive environments.

Dr. Megan Smith is a UBC 2022 Killam Laureate, and Associate Professor in New Media at the University of British Columbia. Her practice-based research probes systems for delivering syndicated data through narrative structure and she often works with virtual and augmented reality, geo-location, live-feed installation, and performance as methods for storytelling.

Visual Alchemy (Soluna Productions)

Visual Alchemy is a portal into a shifting realm where your movements and choices conjure vibrant, living visuals. Approach the podium and watch as your gestures ripple through the space around you. Colors swell, patterns unfold, and radiant dreamscapes emerge in direct response to your touch. Each moment is a transformation, each interaction a spark that reshapes the art. There is no preset outcome. No two experiences are the same. This is creation in motion.

Our team at Soluna Productions specialize in creating large-scale art installations that transform ordinary environments into dynamic, immersive playgrounds of light, color, and motion. Alejandro Samper and Linda Kiritchkov blend cutting-edge technology with bold visual storytelling, inviting audiences to engage, explore, and shape the art in real time. Our creations have been showcased at many festivals including Lumiere, Bass Coast, What If, Shambhala, Valhallafest, Deeproots, and many others. Our goal is simple: to create art meant not just to be seen, but to be stepped into and explored.

Star-Stuff: a way for the universe to know itself (John Desnoyers-Stewart with music by Dale Nichols)