We generated electroactive hydrogel light-guiding structures and demonstrated that their orientation, motion and thereby the direction of their light output can be precisely and remotely controlled through external electrical fields. This was achieved with a range of architectures including planar slab waveguides, individual and small arrays of cylindrical waveguides as well as long-range waveguide lattices (> 10 000 cm^-2). Waveguides were induced in electroactive photopolymerizable hydrogels by self-trapped visible beams from light emitting diodes (LEDs). These nonlinear waves are elicited when photo-induced refractive index changes counter the natural divergence of light beams launched into the hydrogels. Because the refractive index changes are irreversible, self-trapped beams permanently inscribe cylindrical waveguides along their paths. Since they are electroactive, we could apply and vary external electric fields using a simple vectorial analysis to dynamically control the bending, angular orientation and rotation (up to 360^o) of these pliant light-guiding structures without the use of computers or any other sophisticated equipment.