Celebrate the holidays with us and excite your atoms at Glow, our annual festival of ebullient lights and subtle glows celebrating the close of the year. Bask in the mesmerizing gleams of special installations and kinetic sculptures, take a shine to illuminating exhibits, and show your sparkle with scintillating activities.
San Francisco is festive at holiday time, so enjoy the lights and bustle as you stroll along the beautiful Embarcadero waterfront with your loved ones to pay us a visit at Pier 15!
The festivities begin at After Dark: Glow on December 5, where you can savor adults-only programming (18+) featuring unique guest speakers and one-of-a-kind activities.
Special Black Box Installation
Kaleidoscope
By Karina Smigla-Bobinski
Friday, December 6, 2019– January 20, 2020
Osher Gallery 1, Black Box
Preview on December 5, 2019 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. (Ages 18+)
Experience a landscape of astonishing visual effects in the interactive installation Kaleidoscope. Constructed as an 8-foot-square light table, artist Karina Smigla-Bobinski’s Kaleidoscope invites you to manipulate layers of inks comprised entirely of the primary colors. Each touch of the surface generates hyperdynamic new images that visualize the motion energy into engaging, chaotic patterns.
Image courtesy of Karin Smigla-Bobinski, KIKK Festival.
Exhibit
Buckyball
By Leo Villareal
Plaza
Inspired by the shape first explored by futurist and inventor Buckminster Fuller, Buckyball is a towering 25-foot illuminated sculpture featuring two nested geodesic spheres. Composed of 4,500 LED nodes arranged along a series of pentagons and hexagons, Buckyball is animated by custom software programmed by Villareal to display over 16 million distinct colors.
Exhibit
Cubatron Core
By Mark Lottor
Osher Gallery 1
Bask in the cascading colors of this tremendous, torus-shaped sculpture by returning artist Mark Lottor. Twenty-six feet in diameter and eighteen feet high, Cubatron Core is made of 3,840 individually controllable RGB LEDs.
