Signal Festival

Its unique integration of art, city space, and modern technology has drawn over 2 million attendees to Prague in overall.

With its support of new works of art, the SIGNAL Festival has become a respected platform on an international scale and a sought-after venue for introducing the newest projects of the field.

After the success of video mapping which was realized in 2010 by The Macula group and Martin Pošta on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the Prague astronomical clock an idea of a large-scale performance in the field of light art in the Czech Republic by means of a festival occurred.

[4] Local landmarks used for projections included Charles Bridge, the Church of St. Ludmila at Náměstí Míru and the Petřín Lookout Tower.

[4] The 2015 festival began on 15 October 2015, and included for the first time an educational platform, named Transmit, intended for light design specialists, artists and other professionals from the light and digital design field, as well as a spherical dome, the Signal Dome, located on Klárov, the only pay-to-enter installation.

The Signal Dome consisted of a 15-minute spherical projection by French artist Joanie Lemercier, entitled Nimbes.

[12] As part of its 5th anniversary, the SIGNAL festival repeated all videomapping projections, which were shown at the Cathedral of St Ludmila in the Peace square (náměstí Míru).

[14] In the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: Far From Home, the characters visit the Signal Festival on a school trip around Europe.