Official Lumiere partnership with Durham University announced

Lumiere's relationship with Durham University received a boost today with the announcement that the University is to be a major sponsor in this year's light festival, which will return to Durham 16 -19 November 2017. Artichoke, the arts charity that creates and produces Lumiere , festival commissioners Durham County Council, and Durham University, have agreed a deal that will formalise the University's partnership for the fifth edition of Lumiere Durham. In 2017, the University will be a major sponsor in Lumiere Durham for the first time, through a cash investment of £100,000 and as a significant delivery partner in the areas of investment, research, education, staff capacity and expertise, and cultural activity. Durham University has been supportive of Lumiere since it began in 2009. In 2013, two major installations, Solar Eclipse by Rafael Lozano Hemmer and Gina Czarnecki's exploration of the eye, " I ", were sited at Lower Mountjoy and supported by a series of talks by University staff. In 2015, research images and expertise from the Institute for Computational Cosmology were incorporated into The World Machine , Ross Ashton's son et lumiere projected onto Durham Cathedral. This involved the work of University students and staff, including Professor Carlos Frenk and Professor Richard Bower.