Nuit Blanche 2011: Gorilla Glass is a large, illuminated, wave-like structure that uses your motion to trigger a series of sensors and lights. The more you handle it, the better the show. Read more.
Nuit Blanche 2011: The Tie Break is a re-enactment of what ESPN has called “the most riveting episode” in the history of tennis — the 1980 Wimbledon finals between Björn Borg and John McEnroe. Read more.
Nuit Blanche 2011: “The pitch [for Intensity is] that it’s a viewing for a new condo, but with the rate of inflation and the cost of downtown realty, we will likely be living in tents soon enough.” Read more.
Nuit Blanche 2011: Ordinary street lamps transform into ballroom spotlights. So grab a partner, do the Tango, the Superman, or whatever it is the kids are doing these days. The spotlight is all yours. Read more.
Nuit Blanche 2011: City Sleepover — get the chance to bed down in subway cars outfitted with yoga mats, and on the platform there will be “everything from making forts to reading stories.” Read more.
Nuit Blanche 2011: Marshall McLuhan’s Massage Parlour — Expect an immersive, technological world that pays ode to McLuhan’s more familiar texts. Consider it a message parlour. Read more.
Nuit Blanche 2011: The Movie Studio Playhouse lets you play with moving images and spontaneously create movies, while the Chiptunes Orchestra turns vintage Gameboys into musical instruments. Read more.
Nuit Blanche 2011: Camera-equipped Paparazzi Bots roam a red carpet in search of Hollywood qualities. If chosen, your face is projected on to a large screen for 15 seconds of fame. Read more.
Nuit Blanche 2011: At Face Music expect to see warm, fuzzy furry animals suspended from the stage, reading people’s faces and interpreting those images into music. Read more.
Nuit Blanche 2011: The Dogs and Boats and Airplanes Choir makes, quite simply, those exact sounds. A good chance to let your own little ones try out their animal and machine sound effects. Read more.
Nuit Blanche 2011: Ride the Rocket turns an ordinary streetcar into something more like a ride at Canada’s Wonderland, with each window projecting video, animation and computer graphics. Read more.
Nuit Blanche 2011: "Whisper secret conversations [into the microphones to] someone from the other side, and this will trigger a response from the LEDs that is reminiscent of a cloud of fireflies.” Read more.
Nuit Blanche 2011: Night Light Travels transports visitors through a “bedsheet tunnel” into a child’s dream world where hidden triggers can make comets, meteors and other random objects appear." Read more.
Nuit Blanche 2011: “Wychwood Barns is very much becoming a family and young persons hub,” says Nuit Blanche spokesman Julian Sleath, adding that all four installations hold appeal for every age. Read more.
Nuit Blanche 2011: Public preposition - As window-washing stages glide up and down the skyscraper, they trigger lights from inside, leaving behind a fluorescent trail. Read more.
Nuit Blanche 2011: Michal Bartosik’s New Dawn Fades takes "hundreds of light therapy units and created a sculpture of eight concentric rings.” In other words: a tanning sculpture. Read more.
