Art Basel Miami may have seemed, at times, the pinnacle of art world revelry, but it’s time to rally up that stamina because the art fair circuit is from over. For seven days the Des Cours Architecture and Art Festival, presented by AIA New Orleans, is taking over the downtown area of the city in the form of thirteen installations.

One exhibition site at 200 Carondelet Street in the Central Business District was an exciting example of ground breaking new media. A group of Japanese designers created an installation inside a converted bank. The dark room was scattered with elongated LED displays, which looked like nothing more than single lines of colored lights. People around the room were staring at the lights and shaking their heads back and forth.

A bit strange, perhaps, but it turns out the lights are actually images and words broken into sections and flashed quickly across this tiny vertical screen. Moving your head is the only way to see these hidden pictures.

Hideyuki Ando, who was responsible for the LED circuit system, explained that as our eyes move quickly back and forth we are picking up these images and able to perceive the so-called “after image” which is momentarily suspended in our brain.

Sounds like the perfect mix of avant-garde technology and artistic thought, if not at the very least, trippy.