NVA Creative Director Angus Farquhar’s proposal, ‘The Speed of Light’, partnered by United Visual Artists (UVA), is a celebration of human potential through a remarkable intermingling of sports and innovative cultural activity inspired by one of Scotland’s best known natural assets, Arthur’s Seat. The work will create iconic imagery of physical interaction with the landscape on an immense scale through the invention of a new human powered lighting system with thousands of participants nightly ascending a  set route. ‘Athletes’ on foot, in wheelchairs and on  bikes will be viewable moving at the differing speeds of their physical discipline across and around the hill creating flowing rivers of animated light patterns. The Speed of Light will be captured through photographic documentation to provide a permanent legacy.