North Forest Lights — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
North Forest Lights, a seasonal nighttime exhibition of five interactive light-and-sound installations along the mile-long North Forest trail at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, opened in October 2019, designed and produced by Moment Factory.
| Venue | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art |
|---|---|
| Project type | Temporary Exhibition |
| Status | Completed |
| Year completed | 2019 |
| Technologies | projection, interactive lighting, sound design, X-Agora media control system |
Credits
| Firm | Role | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Moment Factory | Media Design & Software | Design, production, and X-Agora-software-driven media/lighting/sound system for five outdoor nighttime installations along the museum's North Forest trail. |
Description
Commissioned as a nighttime attraction for the museum's forest trail bordering the Ozark National Forest, the exhibition comprised five installations — Crystal Grove, Forest Frequencies, The Hearth, Whispering Tree, and Memory of Water — combining projection, interactive lighting, and sound, run on Moment Factory's X-Agora media-control platform. It ran its first season October 2019 - February 2020, drew more than 108,000 visitors, and won the 2020 Prix Mondo*dr Americas Award in the Parks & Attractions category. Distinct from the museum's later "Listening Forest" exhibition (2022, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer) sited in the same North Forest trail.