The installation, featuring 12,000 lights and 4000 pixels, is one of 28 in the second annual Luma Southern Lights Project, which opened last night.
More than 10,000 people are expected to take in the exhibition, which includes sculptures, an outdoor cinema and an entertainment venue in the gardens.
The inaugural Luma festival was held last year, following a pilot project in 2015, as part of the Queenstown Winter Festival.
Luke Baldock, one of the event organisers, said this year’s event would be "brighter and deeper".
"We’re resisting that tendency to succumb to people’s impressions of wanting to go bigger and better, but I think what people can expect will be completely different from last year, with all-new activations and installations."
Luma is open to the public from 5pm to 10pm until Monday.
