Installed and active from sunset to sunrise 14-23 June 2013 as part of Beam In Thine Own Eye, a group exhibition for the first Dark Mofo Festival. It was placed in front of Hobart's Cenotaph on the western shore of that city's central business district. Spectra was an installation of 49 Xenon searchlights. spectra, 2013 & 2018 spectra pierces the Hobart Skyline, 22 June 2013. Other cities which have hosted the installation include Buenos Aires, Hobart, and Nagoya. A more concentrated 64-beam installation was then created in Paris that year for their annual Nuit Blanche festival. Four site-specific light and sound installations were created across Amsterdam in 2008 for the city's Dream Amsterdam event. The first was a tunnel of light and sound at JFK Airport at Eero Saarinen's abandoned TWA Terminal in New York in 2004. Ryoji Ikeda has produced spectra installations in a number of locations, all in several different configurations. The work was first commissioned and produced by Forma Arts. spectra was the first presentation of the work in 2008 its current form an array of xenon lamps pointed skywards lit from dusk till dawn accompanied by a mathematically derived score audible from each of the lamp bases. The most recent presentation of spectra was in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia for four days ending 24 June, 2018 to mark the winter solstice, and as an installation piece at the Dark Mofo festival held by MONA. Spectra is the name of a series of art installations by Ryoji Ikeda which use intense white light as a sculptural material. The beam could be seen for miles above the rooftops and chimneys of London. Series of art installations by Ryoji Ikeda
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