Philips has teamed up with french artist severine fontaine in the realization of an 80-meter long centerpiece for lyon’s festival of lights (from december 5 to 8, 2014) transforming the banks of the river rhône into a luminous landscape. powered by philips’ color kinetics LED connected lighting technology, ’incandescence’ features nine illuminated domes in the shape of incandescent bulbs, spanning the length of a football pitch. a dynamic show, lasting 6 minutes, explores the human race’s symbiotic relationship with light, using the iconic glass shape to represent the connection that humans have had historically with artificial light.