Online 24 November 2015 — 31 December 2016 Free

Lightbulb is a digital artwork created by Michael Craig-Martin for the Serpentine Galleries Galleries on the occasion of his exhibition Transience. It is a drawing with six coloured elements, controlled by a software algorithm.

The image changes continuously, with each element of the drawing fading between the 47 colours in Craig-Martin’s palette. Several hundred colour steps take place during each fading process and there are millions of potential combinations.

Save your own lightbulb image to your mobile or computer: http://mcmlightbulb.serpentinegalleries.org/

Use it as your background wallpaper, email it, print it, or share it on social media.

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