{"id":173881,"date":"2025-09-06T06:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=173881"},"modified":"2025-09-06T06:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:15:40","slug":"how-light-and-code-can-transform-a-city-leo-villareal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=173881","title":{"rendered":"How light and code can transform a city | Leo Villareal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Villareal is an artist, but his tools aren&#8217;t paint and canvas; he manipulates light, color and computer code to create monumental works of public art. In a dazzling talk, he takes us inside his efforts to light up some of the world&#8217;s most iconic bridges \u2014 including an installation of 25,000 LED lights on San Francisco&#8217;s Bay Bridge and a piece uniting nine bridges along London&#8217;s River Thames \u2014 and shows how public art can transform a city.For a chance to give your own TED Talk&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/go.ted.com\/leovillareal\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Villareal is an artist, but his tools aren&#8217;t paint and canvas; he manipulates light,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173881-how-light-and-code-can-transform-a-city-leo-villareal.jpg",1050,591,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173881-how-light-and-code-can-transform-a-city-leo-villareal-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173881-how-light-and-code-can-transform-a-city-leo-villareal-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173881-how-light-and-code-can-transform-a-city-leo-villareal-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173881-how-light-and-code-can-transform-a-city-leo-villareal-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173881-how-light-and-code-can-transform-a-city-leo-villareal.jpg",1050,591,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173881-how-light-and-code-can-transform-a-city-leo-villareal.jpg",1050,591,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173881-how-light-and-code-can-transform-a-city-leo-villareal-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173881-how-light-and-code-can-transform-a-city-leo-villareal-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173881-how-light-and-code-can-transform-a-city-leo-villareal-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}