Technology driven festival lights up Sydney for 3 weeks from tonight

Sydney's annual the VIVID light show has begun transforming the city in a fusion of art and innovation.

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00:00well the theme is dream and i would say everybody here is dreaming that the rain will hold off

00:08only two seconds ago i had my umbrella up and i was trying to stay dry i think it's starting to

00:13rain again now but the dreams will be everything from whimsical dreams all the way through to

00:18nightmares as you can see behind me there's been a beautiful smoking ceremony that has kicked off

00:23this lights on ceremony and dreams will be projected all over the city on the opera house

00:30david mcdermott will be talking about dreaming of a new time a time of equality and then

00:37albert nambajira his art is going to be projected on the mca and i think one of my favorite

00:43installations which i can't wait to check out is an ai installation which is going to be at

00:48martin place where they're going to if you want to go down there you take a photo of yourself

00:53in the photo booth and then it gets projected with some ai dream interpretation on it and it'll be

01:00projected onto martin place so should be very interesting interpretation of dreams here in

01:07vivid over the next 23 days and salianne this event always clogs the street of sydney of a night time

01:15in the uh winter how many people are expected to attend this year's festival

01:19so they're going to expect uh probably around about the same as they had last year which is

01:26into the millions they're not having the drone show though so i'm not sure if you remember last

01:32year the drone show was a bit of an issue because the crowds got caught so they're getting rid of that

01:38this year but hundreds of thousands and millions of spectators are able to come down and check it

01:44out and steve camper the new south wales tourism minister says he thinks it's going to be even

01:50better uh if you can believe that better than last year last year we had somewhere some a little bit

01:58over two and a half million visitors to the city over the the period of the festival and uh you know

02:04there's 180 million dollars spent from the visitor economy we wanted to be bigger this year we want

02:09it to be greater and i'm really certain with what we've got on display today with variations to our

02:15program from last year i think it's going to be a real winner

02:19and with only 13 minutes to go until lights on all of sydney will be on display for the whole world to see

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