Blinc and you won't miss Adelaide Festival's 2015 digital light display Adelaide Festival artistic director David Sefton with images from UK artist Tony Oursler's multimedia installation The Influence Machine at Pinky Flat. Picture: Calum Robertson Source: News Limited A giant 3D elephant stomping in Elder Park, bees swarming on the Festival Theatre roof and figures scaling a waterfall cascading from the Adelaide Oval footbridge are just some of the mind-bending digital illusions which will be the main attraction of the 2015 Adelaide Festival. Architectural projections, laser installations and interactive sound and light displays will transform the Riverbank precinct and its surrounds into an illuminated outdoor art gallery every night during next year's event. The international survey of digital art, called Blinc, will double as the Festival's opening night event on February 27, starting with food by Fork on the Road and a free fireworks spectacular. Artistic director David Sefton's full program will be released tonight and available to view online at advertiser.com.au from 5pm. "Blinc is a curated collection of some of the finest digital art currently being created around the world, a showcase of what's possible with today's projection and lighting technology,"" Mr Sefton said. Picture: Calum Robertson I didn't want to just do Northern Lights again - everything has moved on since then. Some of the technology is just mind-boggling. It's the biggest free thing we've done on my watch."" Blinc began as a light-based festival in North Wales created by UK curators Joel Cockrill and Craig Morrison, who visited Adelaide twice in the past two years to map the area and commission site-specific works. "Because it's an arts festival, we've been able to attract a much higher calibre of artist than you normally get for this kind of event,"" Mr Morrison said from Copenhagen, where he was working with Danish artist Cecilia Westerberg on a piece for the new Torrens footbridge. The Adelaide Festival's Blinc light show - an illumination in the German city of Frankfurt. "It's a really interesting space ... you've got a park with a river running through it, which in any other city would be the centre of social activity in the evening,"" Mr Morrison said. It has such possibilities, so to show that in a new way is really, really exciting. That's one of the things that you can do with art."" Blinc will feature more than 30 digital artworks from 18 international artists and collectives, including American Tony Oursler who directed the quirky video for David Bowie's comeback single Where Are We Now? last year. Oursler's work The Influence Machine will project eerie faces performing monologues onto trees and smoke on Pinky Flat. The Adelaide Festival's Blinc light show - Submergence by Squidsoup. Photo: Paul Blakemore Elephantastic, by France's Top'la Design, will enable viewers to walk around and even underneath a 3D elephant illumination trapped in an archway which will be constructed in Elder Park. Laser displays will be projected from the roof of the Intercontinental Hotel onto the river and from King William Rd across the footbridge. Other site-specific works are being created using the latest building mapping technology for the Festival Centre and rear of Parliament House. A showreel of just some of the acts coming to South Australia as part of the Adelaide Festival of Art 2015. Elephantastic by Top'la Design (France). A three-dimensional elephant created entirely in light, trapped in an archway which will be specially constructed in Elder Park, enabling viewers to walk around and underneath as it stomps its feet and waves its trunk. Submergence by Squidsoup (UK/NZ). The Rotunda will be transformed into a virtual world where pixels on a screen are replaced by thousands of points of light suspended inside the space, which change colour and formation as viewers walk through. The Influence Machine by Tony Oursler (US). Smoke, sound and light are harnessed to transform the trees on Pinky Flat into ethereal faces that perform a series of monologues charting the growth of communications from the telegraph to the internet. Murmur (France). Under a roofed terrace beneath the Festival Theatre, viewers will be able to turn their own voices into splashes of light, creating an "unconventional dialogue between the public and the wall"." Swarm by Wendy Dawson (UK). Using the latest architectural mapping technology with a mix of sculpture, video and animation, live bees will appear to cover and possibly devour the roof of the Festival Centre. GALLERY: The Northern Lights