Toronto, Nepalese software engineers Ms. Christina Kayastha and Mr. Binam Kayastha’s lightwork project “Bloom Promenade” has been selected for “Lumie’re: The Art of Light” of Ontario Place. The project was selected among sixty competitors from Canada. In the competition, all together sixteen projects were selected. “Lumie’re: The Art of Light” is free outdoor light exhibition developed by Ontario artists and currently exhibiting at Trillium Park, Toronto every evening till May 07, 2023 every. In the exhibition one can find the innovative lighting effects in the park under the curatorial theme of “Renewal” commemorating the change of season from spring to winter.
Ms. Christina Kayastha and Mr. Binam Kayastha’s project “Bloom Promenade” is an interactive light exhibit that celebrates Renewal through the regrowth of flora in the spring and effects human can have in their transformation. The project designed as various vertical columns of lights which creates changing sounds like birds, animals and music when any one approaches nearby. The installation also reminds us that human beings are also the part of the ecology and even tiny act of human being can affect the ecology which are reflected through colors and sound.
The exhibition which includes other projects of different artists like: Disco Wall, Correspondence, Allochory, WHole, Aeolian Sound Scape, The Flora Arcana, The Light within Luxonus, Bioluminial Being, Ghost Canoe, Umbra Transit, Fiddlehex, The Fantastical Book Garden, Golden Hour, The Numerology of Mushroom, highlights vivid aspects of life and environment through amazing lighting effects.
Ms. Christina Kayastha and Mr. Binam Kayastha, siblings from Toronto, have won various awards for their projects like “One Arm Band”, a wearable musical instrument sleeve that generated MIDI music from movement and muscle tension, “Holosense” an augmented reality app to empower visually impaired people to see using echolocation and “MyoDraw” a collaborative painting VR app for people with mobility impairments. Having these remarkable experience and encouragement, the team founded “Bitbrainz”, in 2019, a startup focused on multidisciplinary design and development anticipating to transform how we interact with our devices and the digital ecosystem we live in.
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