Over 10 days, more than 65,000 Chicagoans and out-of-town visitors traveled to Millennium Park to see Luminous Field, the interactive, site-specific video and sound installation created by Chicago-area artists, Luftwerk. Each evening from February 10-20, Luminous Field illuminated Cloud Gate – known by Chicagoans as “The Bean” – and the AT&T Plaza on which it sits with dramatic images and spectacular colors set to music composed by Owen Clayton Condon of Chicago’s Third Coast Percussion.Visitors traveled to Chicago to see the installation and related programming in Millennium Park, which included free family programs, concerts and dance events throughout the two holiday weekends in a heated tent adjacent to Cloud Gate. Tourists learned about Luminous Field via www.ExploreChicago.org and its robust Luminous Field microsite, as well as from the more than 1,500 photos posted to Flickr and the 941 tweets about the installation by the general public and the stories and photo galleries that ran online and in print, including this week’s Time Magazine.
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