This weekend's Dlectricity festival in Midtown features, art, light and performance that switches on at sunset Friday and Saturday.
Inspired by the "Nuit Blanche" (White Night) and "Bring to Light" festivals in Paris and New York City respectively — happening simultaneously — Dlectricity will stage 35 lighting projects, many projected onto major buildings like the Detroit Institute of Arts, which will have five projects around its perimeter. The light-works will employ techniques both old-fashioned and downright sci-fi to create a grand, almost Victorian nighttime spectacle.
Pieces will include a 3-D projection on the façade of the Detroit Public Library, a constellation of illuminated silver Mylar balloons hovering outside the College for Creative Studies and a larger-than-life video "max-cast" of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's performance of "Cirque de Symphonie." The latter, complete with acrobats from the Cirque de Soleil, will light up one side of the Max M. Fisher Music Center.
