Amsterdam Light Festival 2017 featured “.-.. …- (LV, Light Vessel)”, a light artwork by Sjoerd ter Borg and Nick Verstand in Amsterdam.
The navy used these signals to exchange messages from one ship to another. Now that the Dutch Navy has left the Marineterrein after almost 360 years, Ter Borg and Verstand pay homage to the location’s history with their own signal composition.
Programme information from Amsterdam Light Festival. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.