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one of the highlights of the Sydney winter the vivid festival is back for its seventh year bathing the Sydney skyline and laneways in beautiful light I'm Claire Riley the Senate let's go check it out visit Sydney brings the world's top lighting designers engineers and artists to Australia's harbor city for two weeks of dazzling light shows there are talks concepts and events that every night as the Sun sets locals and tourists alike turn out onto the streets for the main event as the lights switch-on after lighting the Sydney Harbour Bridge and it's ferries last year lighting design company 3200 lighting is back and they're going to paint the town red with a cool interactive display 3200 has fitted Sydney's Harborside line with hundreds of high output lighting fixtures and LED tubes all connected to a central brain via a wireless network with a hundred thousand control channels for the lighting project director Ian Reed says the scale of the installation is phenomenal it's a massive undertaking with a live in buildings of a square kilometre of a Wi-Fi network that gives you the power to change the city 3200 have set up a touchscreen on the waterfront that lets the public paint the town for themselves lighting the skyline is as simple as swiping the display and selecting the colors for each building add a few effects and you're ready to go my favorite part of this whole artwork is watching kids hit the Go button and the faces light up as the city lights up with their creation the best feeling ever paint the town will be running as part of vivid sydney until the 8th of june