The Monument and the Main Hall

Liberty Lights was made to be filmed, not toured. The rig used Robe iBOLT, MegaPointe and iSpiiderX fixtures, supported by PRG; Ian Tomlinson of High Scream designed and directed the lighting, and Jérémie Bellot and François Deret designed the laser mapping. OS Studios handled the cinematic capture, directed by Remco Evers. It survives as a broadcast and an official release on Canitrot's channels.

Robin Fox is an Australian audio-visual artist who synchronises lasers with sound in real time. For PRESENCE, the beams form geometric planes and three-dimensional environments that dissolve and reform around you. Commissioned by Now or Never (City of Melbourne), it takes over the Main Hall of Melbourne Town Hall and runs continuously through the day — free, no booking. 21–27 August.

At Art Basel Hong Kong 2026, German artist Kim Asendorf showed PXL DUO POD, presented by the gallery Nguyen Wahed in the fair's digital-focused Zero 10 sector. Two evolving pixel systems sit side by side on LED screens; from a control pad, visitors rotate the forms, zoom, and change the camera angle. The screens are ROE Visual Topaz 2.6mm panels driven by Brompton's Tessera SX40 processors and XD 10G distribution, with technical management by Fuse Technical Group. Related works — PXL DEX, PXL POD and PXL NET — are at NODE, Palo Alto, through 13 September.

HYBYCOZO — the studio of Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk — has placed 21 interactive installations through the Missouri Botanical Garden: laser-cut geometric forms patterned after structures in nature. The daytime show runs through 26 September; on select Thursday–Saturday evenings the LightForm program lights the works for a night walk, 6–10 p.m. (it pauses 30 August–9 September).

Durham's former Durham Light Infantry Museum and Durham Art Gallery, at Aykley Heads, reopens on 22 August as The Light, and its opening exhibition is given over to light art. Victory Over the Sun: Encounters with Light — curated by Natasha Howes, and named after the 1913 Russian Futurist opera — gathers around 25 artists, among them Tracey Emin, Dan Flavin, Olafur Eliasson, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Jenny Holzer, Tatsuo Miyajima, Ivan Navarro, Cerith Wyn Evans, Liz West and Steve McQueen. Through 17 January 2027.

WrestleMania 42 filled Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada across two nights for more than 106,000 fans, and its stadium-wide video ran off a single Green Hippo system delivered by Upstaging: eight Hippotizer Kasai MX and six Boreal+ MK2 media servers under grandMA3 control, feeding the over-ring trons (7,272 × 864 pixels), the stadium VOMs and the lower ribbon boards (13,856 pixels wide). WWE media-server programmer Chris Keene ran the system with project manager Tony Thompson.

A hilltop fortress in Saxony that was never taken now stages the attack that never came. Sturm auf den Königstein is a 180-degree LED-wall panorama on a roughly 30-square-metre platform, produced by Faber Courtial with technical implementation by Whitebox of Dresden. The audio and haptic system was designed by Ben Zenker (ZEN Audio Engineering) and André Neuhaus (Soundlike), with sound design by Felix Findeisen; body-sound transducers built into the platform and seating turn cannon fire and impacts into floor and seat vibration. On view at Festung Königstein, Saxony.