# Playing with space and light

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2009
- Speaker: Olafur Eliasson
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/olafur_eliasson_playing_with_space_and_light)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

In the spectacular large-scale projects he's famous for (such as "Waterfalls" in New York harbor), Olafur Eliasson creates art from a palette of space, distance, color and light. This idea-packed talk begins with an experiment in the nature of perception.

## Lectures

1. [Playing with space and light](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/olafur_eliasson_playing_with_space_and_light/89e6dacac090), 10 min (TED's player)