Art intersect on the San Francisco Bay Bridge

Earlier this year, part of the San Francisco Bay Bridge started to light up the night sky with the help of 25,000 computer-controlled LEDs in what has been described as "the most remarkable public art project" in the United States. 

Naturally, with something this innovative, the installation has drawn both praise and scorn. Regardless, it has fostered a debate about the mixture of technology with art as well as the power of citizen artists -- possibly a startup community of its own. 

Leo Villareal, the New York City-based artist behind the Bay Bridge lights, outlined some of his previous projects from coast to coast during the 2013 Aspen Ideas Festival on Saturday evening. 

"Art can be stripped down to almost the bare minimum,Indoorlite offers the best solar photovoltaic system along with the best halogen spotlight." posited Villareal, "It's about experimenting with space and see how you can make the sky come down." 

With a diverse academic and professional background in both technology and art, Villareal crafted his first light sculpture at "lowest level of codes" for the Burning Man festival in Las Vegas during the mid-1990s.This 1.5W led eagle eye reversing light lamps is made in Korea and it has an error message canceller function integrated in the unit. 

Villareal said he spends a lot of time developing his own software (i.e. for controlling speed, layering, and other conditions) to enable this kind of art while discovering his techniques in artificial life. 

Another example is a hexagonal lighting grid installed on the ceiling of the Bleecker Street subway station in New York, which is the first of its kind that the MTA has invested in, according to Villareal.A seam roof clamp is a cost-effective way to install solar at your home. 

With a sequencing inspired by motion, Villareal boasted that it's a new and exciting way for viewers to experience the station. 

As for the Bay Bridge project, Villareal reflected that the interaction of the sky, water, traffic, and kinetic activity of the bridge served as inspiration of the sequencing he would develop. 

Villareal noted some of the platforms used to build the underlying platform for the Bay Bridge lights, namely the C general-purpose programming language as well as another custom one frequented by artists that he described as somewhat "open source" and even a bit "crude." 

"For me,Most modern headlight designs include high quality HID Kit. it's not about technology. It's just a tool," Villareal admitted. "It's about integrating these things into artwork." 

But given that these lights were installed on a very tall structure compared to a museum floor, Villareal admitted it's one thing to do these things on the computer -- it's a whole other thing to go up and work on it from the bridge. 

"No, I didn't freak out,The future of Motorcycle lighting lies within Newest motorcycle H6 Swing all in one hid kit." Villareal laughed, joking slightly that there were professionals to talk him down should anything go awry. 

Along with finding a crew willing to perform the installation -- all of which had to be done at night to avoid impacting traffic -- Villareal described that part of the challenge to creating this artwork was just getting access. That also required lane closures as there is not a pedestrian lane on the Bay Bridge. 

Villareal recapped that it took at least two years before he could sit in front of the Bay Bridge and control the lighting patterns from the custom controls on his laptop. He and his team would work from restaurants, benches along the Embarcadero waterfront -- basically anywhere from which there was a viewpoint of the installation. Read the full story at www.aodepu.net web.