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0The Bay of Lights
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I'm an artist based in New York and I'm working on a project called The Bay of
Lights, which is...consists of a light sculpture which is just under 25,000 white
LED lights which we're attaching to the suspender cables of the Bay Bridge.
And it's a 1.8-mile expanse of bridge between San Francisco and Treasure
Island.
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It's highlighting a part of the bridge of this incredible piece of infrastructure
that's so meaningful to so many people here in the Bay Area. But it's bringing
art, light, technology into the mix. And the other thing, you know, is that it's
site-specific. It's made specifically for this location. So I've been sitting out here
for over a month working on the sequencing and the programs and fine-tuning it.
But this is an abstract artwork. It's not a light show. It's something kind of new
in that it's using very new material, software and LEDs.
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People are attracted to light and I think they'll respond in whatever way. If they
know something about the history of art; light sculpture...they might be into
that, or technology or algorithms or, you know, programming. So, I think it will
touch on a lot of the things that are kind of key in the Bay Area.
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We've been testing and debugging, so everyone's been kind of watching the
process for several weeks now. But we're launching this piece on March 5 at 9
o'clock. And there'll be a lot of jubilation when it's finally up and it'll be up for
two years. And we're estimating 50 million people will see it so it's really a, a
really impactful piece of public art.
Highlighting: showcasing
Expanse: stretch, length
Be into that: be interested in that, be intrigued by that
Jubilation: excitement, happiness, joy
