Some consider campfires to be historical places where the first people came together to share their stories. The most beautiful fairytales were thought of in the comfort of the fire’s warmth and the presence of others. It’s hard to imagine that these days however, a time when everyone is busy telling stories all the time. Look at them: tweeting around the Twitter fire in an attempt to accumulate as many listeners as possible and listening very little themselves. There’s not much solitude these days. Perhaps it’s time for a campfire 2.0.
My Camp-Fire installation at the Amsterdam Light Festival in 2014 is also a social experiment and was the first in a series of Camp-Fire installations of which the latest versions were exhibited at Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert in 2024 and at the Napa Lighted Art Festival in California in 2025.
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