Tom Biddulph and Barbara Ryan
The Amsterdam Light Festival has returned, and with it, a startling new set of light-based public works are on display through Jan. 19. “Disturbance lies at the heart of the exhibition of the eighth edition of the Amsterdam Light Festival with its theme ‘DISRUPT!’” the event says. “Artists, designers, and architects were challenged to question, test and shake up Amsterdam in alignment with the theme.” Photos by Janus van den Eijnden.
Masamichi Shimada
Republic of Amsterdam Radio and Nomad Tinker House
UxU Studio
Lucy McDonnell (Studio Vertigo)
Artists include Alicia Eggert, Ben Zamora, Har Hollands, Laila Azra, Studio Vertigo, Martin Ersted, Masamichi Shimada, UxU Studio, and several others. The event, running since 2012, has seen 5 million visitors. The 53-day festival has to date, offered more than 240 artworks.
See more on the event’s site.
Karolina Howorko
Sergey Kim (photo by the artist)
Utskottet
Tom Biddulph and Barbara Ryan
Kim Yun Soo is a Korean multi media artist whose work spans from mixed media sculpture and installations to photography, but perhaps her most compelling work is an ongoing series of PVC footprints, dramatically transformed into surreal mountainscapes. Since 1999, Soo has been collecting the fingerprints and footprints of her close friends and acquaintances, recording their unique shapes and spirals and giving them a new dimension inspired by the natural world. Many of her works resemble a wave, where a single footprint ripples out into stacked shapes and contours, forming a sort of topographical map of their owner that she arranges in simple displays.
Artist and designer 
You no longer have to be a scientist to understand the catastrophic impact of pollution and its friend global warming. In California, we're facing the greatest drought in recorded history; marine animals are choking on our collective waste amid mass plastic contamination in the ocean; in China last year, 16,000 pig carcasses were spotted floating down Huangpu River. Chinese-born, New York-based artist