Ice Light installation

Metcalfe/Lewis Ikons

Paul Wong ‘5’ events

Vectorial Elevation

Every Letter in the Alphabet

Instant Coffee Light Bar

Boulevard installation

Kingsway Luminaires

Michael Lin

World Tea Party

ContainR

Code Live

Ice Light A sparkling new light-emitting diode (LED) display on the edges of City Hall was designed and created by German artist Gunda Förster. Not only beautiful, the permanent installation reduces the power consumption of City Hall’s exterior lights by 70%. Begins at dusk, Vancouver City Hall, Cambie at West 12th Avenue.

Metcalfe/Lewis: Ikons Two pioneering avant-garde artists collaborate for the first time with an innovative piece of music by George Lewis integrated with a large array of Eric Metcalfe's sculptures. Daily event at Five-Sixty, 560 Seymour Street, Vancouver January 28–February 28, 11am-6pm.

Etienne Zack Painter Etienne Zack used one of his artworks as a source for a three-dimensional sculpture that links the factory-like production processes underlying cultural and sporting industries. 560 Seymour Street, Jan 28-Feb 28, 11-6 daily.

Isabelle Hayeur: Fire with Fire Hayeur’s site-specific installation on Hastings Street sends images flickering out the windows of a 4-storey building, connecting present neighbourhood conditions with a fiery past. Located at One-Twelve, 112 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, begins at dusk January 29–February 28.

Landon Mackenzie: Vancouver as the Centre of the World Old shipping lanes, underwater internet cable lines and space debris - combining cartography with culture, history and the imagination, Vancouver artist Landon Mackenzie's fascinating maps are installed in the many Canada Line stations from YVR to Waterfront, through March 21.

Vectorial Elevation One of the world’s largest interactive artworks, Vectorial Elevation displays patterns of light based on user-submitted designs like pyramids, meshes and grids in the sky over English Bay and and visible within 15 kilometres of the city’s downtown. English Bay, February 4–28. 

‘5’ Paul Wong - ‘5’ events
5.1   Live webcast of launch of 
5.paulwongprojects.com - February 13
5.2   ZOOOOOM-moving audio/visual tours 
departing from the Lifestyle Lounge at 68 West
5th Ave. - February 20 
5.3   LED Down the Garden Path at the Bloedel
Conservatory - February 27  
5.4   One More Than Three at Mountain View
Cemetery Celebration Centre - March 6
5.5   Five Elements at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Chinese 
Garden, Chinatown - March 13. 

Every Letter In The Alphabet Geoffrey Farmer has initiated a year-long, text-based project that will commission, collect and produce text-based works like banners, ads and signs for public viewing and distribution. 1875 Powell Street at Victoria Drive, through November 15, 2010, Thursday to Sunday, 11am-5pm. 

Light Bar Instant Coffee Lightbar brings together artists, designers, scientists, writers, musicians, philosophers and others interested people in a full-spectrum light therapy bar. 33 West Cordova Street - Blood Alley, February 12–March 20.

Boulevard Permanent installation by Adrian Göllner and Pierre Poussin. Decorative street lighting made with LED technology, including chandelier-like “Rain Barrels”, attached to lampposts enhance dark downtown streets. View daily from dusk to sunrise on Cambie Street from Broadway to King Edward, Hamilton and Mainland Street from Pacific to West Georgia. 

Brawl NORMA Collective performance presented by Artspeak Gallery at Andy Livingstone Park, Carrall & Keefer Streets, February 24, 7–9pm.

Garde-temps Permanent installation by Tania Ruiz Gutiérrez is more than a sculpture, more than a fountain. Gutiérrez’ light-based sculptural work uses a camera to capture nearby heat sources and movements which are translated to the vessel’s surface. Under the Cambie Street Bridge at West Second Avenue (near Olympic Village Canada Line Station).

Fearless City – Bright Light Edition Presented by W2 Community Media Art Society, Fearless City Mobile mixes community-derived video and streams it onto architectural surfaces in the downtown core. 
Café Woodwards, 112 West Hastings Street W2 Culture+Media House, 149 West Hastings Street, February 12–March 21.

Aboriginal Art - 2010 Winter Games  More than 50 Aboriginal artists created permanent art installations at Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games venues. Sculpture by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Haida. Various locations.

Take-Off Sculpture by Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, installed above the entrance to the Thunderbird winter sports arena, University of British Columbia.

Kingsway Luminaires Part of the city’s Mapping and Marking public art projects, David MacWilliam’s six 5.4 metre poles are crowned with illuminated glass-blown forms utilizing full-spectrum LED lights that slowly change colour from dusk to dawn. View daily from dusk to sunrise, Kingsway at Knight Street.  

World Tea Party Presented by Centre A Gallery, 2 West Hastings Street, the World Tea Party transforms the art gallery into a teahouse and performance space, engaging a diverse array of communities in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in collective art production. Multiple events between February 12–28 and March 12-21.

Michael Lin A massive hand-painted mural by conceptual artist Michael Lin uses patterns and colours taken from traditional Taiwanese textiles covers the Vancouver Art Gallery’s northern Georgia Street façade. To May 2. 

Salish North Star in Maple Leaf Wade Baker of the Squamish Nation designed a massive stainless steel Coast Salish North Star set within the Canadian maple leaf to symbolize the Winter Games and welcome the international world. Installed in the Southeast False Creek Plaza, Olympic Village–1 Athlete’s Way. 

ContainR Art installation transforms recycled shipping containers into a venue for showcasing a festival of sports, dance and performance films. Vancouver Public Library plaza, Georgia Street at Homer, February 18-March 1. .

CODE Live An 18-day, landmark event with visual art exhibitions, music and performances is fuelled by digital technology and audience involvement. Feb 4-21, Great Northern Way Campus, Emily Carr, Vancouver Public Library. Check out CODE Live's online catalogue.