SHINE is an annual exhibition of temporary lighting installations within the city centre of Sunderland. 

SHINE 2010: The Urban Garden was a ten day event that showcased lighting within the in the Museum & Winter Gardens and major interactive installations projected onto buildings and pavements. University of Sunderland Art & Design faculties also participated in the event through a series of mini commissions for the City Library and Arts Centre Windows.

The Hive by KMA is a highly interactive public artwork commissioned for the Dublin Lightwave festival. Using the pavement as a canvas, light is projected into the area from a huge projector suspended 35m above the floor. The motion of the pedestrians moving below is tracked and analysed by the computer 'brain' at the centre of the system, which produces the sound and imagery that forms the body of the piece.

Digital artists SDNA presented Cinetaxis which was previously shown at Shunt, London in April 2008. The inspiration for the title 'Cinetaxis' is derived from research into phototaxis (insects automatic reaction to light sources), and a desire to explore the same in humans ‘attraction to light', both real and metaphorical.