Thirty-Two Universes, No Console

Two performances a night for six months, with the first showtime moving between 19:10 and 19:30 across three bands of the run. Operators watched sensor data and safety-circuit status through a CP2907 control panel and TwinCAT HMI, and the article quotes Craig Pow Chong on controlling nearly 300 variable frequency drives over EtherCAT. The official show record credits design and production to ECA2, concept and direction to Naoki Tanaka and music to Yoko Kanno; blooloop credits the design to ECA2 and Dentsu.

On 9 September the Twin Towers were drawn over New York Harbor at full architectural scale in 2,977 individual lights. The release credits creative director Addison Mehr, producers Sky Elements, designer Yan Paul Dubbelman, and artistic advisors Drift with architects Shigeru Ban and Dean Maltz; it names IDEKO as leading federal and city permitting, safety and security, and the New York Foundation for the Arts as sponsoring organisation. Dezeen alone reports the work was illuminated twice, for fifteen minutes each time. The video is Sky Elements' own.

A roughly 120-metre inflatable cave over the Pont Neuf, in tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Pont Neuf Wrapped, whose fortieth anniversary the artist's page says was marked in 2025. Note the dates: both trade accounts print 6 to 28 June, but the opening was pushed back after a storm damaged the fabric, and the artist's own page now reads 15-28 juin 2026. Lighting designer Fabrice "Tom" Azoulay of CANAL LED ran Elation Chorus Line 16 bars in the technical gap between the cave fabric and the mountain structure. SoundLightUp quotes Azoulay on 137 Apoled panels added through the tunnel at the safety commission's request, as evacuation lighting.

Thirty SVOPATT on three over-stage trusses, ten per truss, run in full pixel mode with every second fixture hung upside down so the odd and even modules produce linear rows — Rylander wanted them to resemble classic Svobodas and throw light curtains. There is no conventional video. The rig also carries customised tungsten fixtures incorporating bulbs from different sodium luminaires, repurposed as bespoke theatrical profiles and fresnels. Volt Lites of Burbank supplied, Matt Shimamoto account manager, Dustin Snyder programming and operating. Robe names the tour after the album; the band brands it the Bleachers Forever Tour.

Thirty shows across five continents on disguise GX 3 media servers, with Designer driving the show alongside grandMA3 triggering the programming movements, and a SockPuppet workflow feeding Notch. Live Design's introduction says Gerhard busked the whole operation live; in her own account, and in LSi's, timecode hits the desk, the desk fires sequences and cues in grandMA3, and disguise feeds the screens. LSi credits the Notch block to Blink, developed in collaboration with Michael "Hank" Hankowsky, with Silent House's Parker Genoway on visual direction. A flown cube above the band riser, a second wrapping it, tiered ribbons in the wings.

Eighty iESPRITE LTL at eight per truss across ten ten-metre upstage trusses, spaced 1.25 metres and rigged in straight lines of five, one above another at a two-metre offset, the lower ones automated. Forty iFORTE Fresnels, four per truss. Twenty-four iFORTE LTX are the only front light apart from follow spots, on two twelve-metre FOH towers fifty-five metres from the downstage edge. Lighting supplied by Agorà, automation by PRG; Claudio Santucci of Giò Forma is overall creative director. Robe calls it a sold-out tour; the artist's own page marks three of twelve dates sold out.

Austin — 25 and 26 September. Free and open to the public. Central Texas artists including Beili Liu, in a decommissioned water intake building; a programme of Design Austin with The Trail Conservancy. Boat cruises and rentals are ticketed separately.

São Paulo — closes 27 September, the run extended from an earlier date. Six installations curated by Marcello Dantas, Tuesday to Sunday, 12h to 20h. R$60 full, R$30 half.

Łódź — 25 to 27 September. No admission is stated on the festival's own site, and its English page still carries a thank-you for the previous edition alongside the 2026 dates, so no edition number here.

Boulder — opens 24 September, on view through 3 January 2027. Seven artists, guest curated by Kate Petley; Anne Lindberg is the only one named on the museum's page. Admission is pay-what-you-wish.

Toronto — 26 September to 20 December. Fourteen exhibition sites, from the CN Tower to St George subway station to Pearson airport. Most events and exhibitions are free; the 25 September opening party is ticketed.

Helsinki — 30 September to 4 October, a biennial of audiovisual art and VJ culture. The fulldome programme, including Ryoichi Kurokawa's in s.ambli and Julius Horsthuis's Recombination, screens at the Heureka Planetarium in Vantaa rather than in Helsinki. Festival pass 64 €; the media art exhibition, workshops and talks are free.