LUMA Projection Arts Festival is America’s premier projection arts festival.
LUMA was founded in 2015 by a street photographer, a film editor and an event planner. Using powerful projectors and 3D animation, we create the illusion that enormous structures are transforming as if by magic. City hall turns into a gingerbread house. The courthouse becomes Stonehenge. The light overpowers the architecture and the effect seems real.
Going to LUMA is like visiting some giant outdoor art gallery where the paintings tower over you 6 stories high. Enjoy it in any order you choose at whatever pace you like. You’ll find projection mapping, light installations, immersive live performance and something new every year.
Far more than just spectacle, LUMA is dedicated to the fine art of storytelling–through projection mapping and many other forms of tech-driven artistry. What experiences can we share by transforming the urban landscape into an animated canvas?
Help us find out.
Accessibility Tips:
• Handicap accessible car and van parking onsite
• LUMA is accessible, free, and inclusive to people of all abilities!
• LUMA is fully integrated with Binghamton’s downtown neighborhood and shares all accessibility services and features, including pet relief areas.
• All major LUMA features are accessible by sidewalk, ramp, or roadway–which are closed to traffic and for pedestrian (including wheelchair) use only for the duration of the festival. In extremely rare cases, legacy infrastructure may create obstacles to access were noted in festival info. In these cases, every effort is made to provide an equivalent experience.
• Accessible restrooms are available to all festivalgoers. Restroom locations can be found on the printed festival map or its digital version at lumfestival.com
• LUMA has an ongoing partnership with over 20 downtown restaurants offering a huge array of environments, atmospheres and accessibility options. There are no gates or ticket-takers at LUMA. Exit and enter at your own pace and enjoy all the amenities downtown Binghamton has to offer.
• Festival-goers who wish to stay within a few blocks of festival attractions can book a room at the Holiday Inn Arena or DoubleTree by Hilton and return to their room in moments.
• Visitors to LUMA will find most media features highly accessible. Most festival features don’t rely on traditional dialogue as a core element of the art. Vision-impaired festivalgoers will enjoy original musical compositions at each feature and LUMA is currently in the process of adding audio description to the free online archival video of its features.