Participate in Britain's biggest light artwork
The public are being given the chance to be part of Britain's biggest light artwork, Nocturne, by sending photographs to the website www.metronocturne.com.
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A countryside scene, a honeymoon and a balloon ride will be part of an ambitious artwork scheme to light up one of the Tyne's bridges. The Metro bridge is to be lit with an ever-changing spectrum of lights - and people are being urged to influence the choice of colours to be seen by millions every year.
Artist Nayan Kulkarni is seeking 6,000 different images to create the bars of light that will move back and forth every night for the next 15 years on the Queen Elizabeth II Metro Bridge. Nocturne will be completed early next year, when the lights will be switched on right across the 360m structure for the first time.
One hundred and forty LED lights will illuminate the strucutre of the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge with bands of color using computer programmed controls. The level of illumination will change in relation to the rise and fall of tides. These controls will also be used each day to change bands of color as they appear to move through the 360 metre strucutre, sending messages of light between Newcastle and Gateshead.
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