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Go ahead, indulge your inner moth: Walk toward the light.
The light — those flashing, swooping searchlights you see at the southern end of downtown Toronto — is Pulse Front, the world’s largest interactive light sculpture. When you get there, you might be surprised. This weekend, Harbourfront Centre (the place Pulse Front calls home) will also host Carnivalissima, a celebration of the many separate and distinct world cultures that have made second homes in Toronto.
Today’s Luminato Podcast documents the reactions of people to seeing their biorhythms projected onto the night sky.
Listen here.
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Joe White and Sandy Sayres saw the lights of Pulse Front and moved inexorably toward them, like moths to… well, to a light.
Just like they moved inexorably toward Ontario. They recently came to the Great White North from the United States just a few months ago, when White took a job transfer. Luminato is one of their first experiences as soon-to-be-Canadian citizens.
“We just moved here from western Massachusetts,” said White. “the closest thing the States have to a Canadian province.”
Tonight they had dinner, then came to the Harbourfront Centre to play with the lights of Pulse Front. Later on in the week they’ll check out Leonard Cohen’s Drawn to Words.
“I was like: Wow. This is just unbelievable. We should be here every day of the week. That’s my plan.”
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Pulse Front: Relational Architecture 12 is a matrix of searchlights located at Harbourfront Centre; look toward the CN Tower from anywhere in the city after dusk and you’ll see the swooping and blinking skylights. Each light is connected to a sensor that, when grasped, reads the user’s pulse and flashes the light accordingly.
Monday night, as they waited for Hawksley Workman to begin his set, Jayme Selazek and Jaime Williams play around at one of the lights. Neither knew about Luminato beforehand; they walked to Harbourfront Centre for ice cream, and stayed for the festivities. Selazek held onto the sensors, and Williams watched the sky.
“My heart is kind of going fast,” Selazek said.
“Yeah,” replied Williams. “I think you might have a little heart murmur there.”
“Well,” said Selazek, “as long as I’m alive, that’s OK. I can deal with a murmur or two,”
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