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Mesmerizing light shows, edgy art pieces, strobing lights and curious sites await visitors to Prague, Czech Republic, this weekend.
The city's annual Signal Festival is kicking off.

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One of Europe's largest light festivals is set to begin Thursday (10 October) in Prague.
It's the first year the city's fashionable riverside district is hosting the festival.
Signal Festival is an annual public art installation festival, featuring video mapping and installation art pieces in public and private spaces throughout the city.
Viewers can observe - and in some cases take part - in the displays.
"Signal Festival is important because it brings current art, or modern art, into the streets and it makes (it) available for the people who are not visiting galleries. It shows them gallery installations in the street," says program coordinator, Matej Vlasanek.
Among the highlights is "Simple Harmonic Motion for Lights at the Czech Museum of Music" by Turkish artist, Memo Akten.
He says his work tries to illustrate how all human knowledge works.
"This is what chemistry is, biology, finance, economics, psychology," explains Akten.
"So, what I hope is people to spend a lot of time in here, to either just let themselves go, be mesmerized, or to look at it, lose themselves, try to find patterns and then fractals of patterns and more patterns."
Video mapping is a form of ephemeral art, where artists create moving designs and images to be projected onto buildings or objects.
One example is on the exterior of the Baroque-style Tyrs House. It's titled "R.Evolution," by SKILZ, a creative studio from Kiev, Ukraine.
The piece highlights the theme of this year's festival - "revolution."
Signal Festival, which is celebrating its seventh year, has grown to be the most visited cultural event in the country.
This year's event features 18 art installations by artists from the Czech Republic and abroad.
The expected number of visitors may reach, or possibly even exceed, half a million people over the festival's four days.
It runs nightly from 7pm till midnight for most outdoor displays and indoor artworks and will run till Sunday 13 October.

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