Art Critic for the New York Magazine and former Senior Art Critic for the Village Voice, Jerry Saltz has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times.

is the Executive Director of Creative Time, a non-profit public arts organization dedicated to presenting new and experimental works by artists of all disciplines.

MacArthur 'Genius' award-winner Dave Hickey is a freelance writer of fiction and cultural criticism. He currently teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

WORKING CONCEPT: The artist will create an animation for a three-screen LED portal which will be installed outside of the Tampa Convention Center.

WORKING CONCEPT: Using conservation photography, and focusing on Tampa Bay, the artist focus on Tampa Bay's environment and wildlife.  The final images will be displayed digitally through a portal

WORKING CONCEPT: Ben Rubin was recommended by the Lights On Tampa jury to design a major iconic sculpture for the City of Tampa.

CONCEPT:  Will Pappenheimer’s project, the Tampa Public Mood Ring, is being realized through Lights On Tampa and i

WORKING CONCEPT: The artist proposes Ecstatic City, a series of urban projects where the landscape of the city is transformed or animated.

An installation by Casa Magica will kick off the opening of Lights On Tampa’s on January 10, 2009 at the south-end of the Ft. Brooke Parking Garage. The complete south façade of Fort Brooke Garage will be temporarily illuminated by means of classical still image large format projection. Six different images will be shown throughout the night.

BRIEF BIO : Friedrich Förster was born in Reutlingen and lives in Tübingen/Germany. Forster studied natural sciences and neurobiology at the University of Tübingen and at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. Since the 80s, he has developed specific slide projection and laser technologies for the creative application in artistic intermedia and multimedia projects. He was recipient of Ars Electronica/A-Linz and International Laser Display Association/USA in the 90s. He collaborates with musicians, dancers and visual artists on his diverse art projects and events in Europe, USA and Arabia.

BRIEF BIO: Sabine Weissinger was born in Göppingen and lives in Tübingen / Germany. Weissinger studied art history and science of religion at the Universities of Stuttgart, Florence and Tübingen, accompanied by training in visual arts and work on cultural projects of the SDR-TV (South German Broadcasting) Stuttgart. From 1989-91, she was the curator of art exhibitions and cultural events at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and from 1992-95, she served as the managing director of the cultural centre "Sudhaus" in Tübingen. Since 1995 she has been a journalist for art and architecture (deputy editor-in-chief of the specialist review glasforum) and project partner of Friedrich Förster specially in the design of projects related to architecture.

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