For Nobel Week Lights, Text Type Light created innovative light animations by taking the festival’s theme “Ljus i mörkret” and writing it across some of Stockholm’s most iconic sites: Stockholms stadshus, Stockholms stadsmuseum, and Sergels torg.
The artists designed a text on a computer and programmed it onto a custom built LED stick. One artist slowly walked across a site with the stick while the other filmed. A custom software then registered the light pixels in the film, and transformed these into animated words.
NOBEL WEEK LIGHTS
Jonas Johansson and Victoria Albrecht
Text Type Light is a project by Jonas Johansson and Victoria Albrecht, members of artist collective Svartljus. Svartljus has previously realized projects at Reaktorhallen, Fryshuset, Slakthuset, and other various locations around Stockholm and Sweden.
Text illustration by: Fredrika Frykstrand
Music by: Francesco Torelli
Behind the Scenes footage by: Rose Hallgren
Inspired by: Philippe Dubost
Original code by: Lucas Berbesson
Art lighting up Stockholm
Read about Nobel Week Lights, a free light festival taking place in Stockholm during the darkest time of the year.