照亮SF™灯光艺术之旅上的11件装置

风挡板

标志性的挡风结构将公园固定在5M处, 一个新的, vibrant community connected to the surrounding fabric of San Francisco’s SOMA District by a cohesive network of public spaces, 是谁的创意 !Melk是一家屡获殊荣的城市设计和景观建筑公司. 为减缓风力而建, the baffles or “wind breakers” are artfully illuminated from the outside and complemented with a soft glow that radiates through the perforations in the upper zones. 虽然是钢做的, 与沉重和工业有关的材料, the baffles are often referred to as “flowers” for their stem and leaf-like design elements. Come nightfall, they transform into breathtaking sculptures and suddenly seem to float.

点云

点云 is housed on the pedestrian bridge connecting the north and south buildings of The Moscone Center. 这个装置是由Leo Villareal创作的，同样的艺术家 海湾之光. 点云 跨度100英尺，由858根钢棒和28根,288个LED灯泡, 就像海湾大桥上的那些, 每30秒换一次颜色. 你可以在莫斯康中心的开放时间里走过这座桥, 或者在霍华德街欣赏灯光秀.

中东和平

Taravat Talepasand的 中东和平 在基督教青年会大堂的永久装置. 悬挂在天花板上, 这个复杂的霓虹灯艺术品, 上面用波斯语写着“和平”, explores the cultural taboos that reflect on gender and political authority through Talepasand's lens as an Iranian-American woman.

爱胜于规则

Glowing 6-foot-6-inch letters spell out LOVE OVER RULES on the exterior wall of the Salma Family Building in the heart of the Yerba Buena neighborhood. 坐落在米逊街的小巷里, the light sculpture is the first permanent public artwork in the United States by New York-based artist Hank Willis Thomas. 向艺术家的堂兄致敬, 2000年被谋杀, the blinking white neon installation shares his cousin’s last recorded message to Thomas. Each word gets a line, encouraging different reads: is it “LOVE OVER RULES” or “LOVE OVERRULES?”托马斯, 谁在2004年从加州艺术学院的艺术硕士项目毕业, 与城市和当地文化有很深的联系. 这个大型的光艺术作品是Sites Unseen的第三个公共艺术项目.

白天换黑夜

At the top of the Salesforce Tower, the tallest building west of the Mississippi, you'll find 白天换黑夜这是吉姆·坎贝尔(Jim Campbell)设计的一个巨大而多功能的灯光艺术装置. 塔顶已被11层包裹起来,000 lights and video screens that allow daily scenes of city life to be displayed all night long.

白光

In the gleaming, sunlit rotunda of the new Salesforce Transit Center, Jenny Holzer's 白光 用智慧的话语激励通勤者和游客. The 182-foot-long LED screen displays the words of more than 40 writers for varying amounts of time. 有些是短暂的，45秒出现. 有些人逗留长达两个小时.

让我们发光

让我们发光 SF是一个假日投影映射活动，将于12月11日举行. 1 to 10. 激活是由Downtown SF产生的, the community benefit district which serves the Financial District and Jackson Square, 与A3视觉合作.

Let 's Glow SF将成为美国最大的假日投影地图活动.S. The nightly journey of light and color will feature the works of local and international artists. 惊人的古怪的, 摘要, and naturalistic winter-themed images will be projected onto four iconic buildings in San Francisco’s Financial District.
 

鸟的语言

鸟的语言 is a permanent 特定场地 sculpture installed at a pedestrian plaza linking 唐人街 and 北海滩. 每一件艺术品的悬挂“书”都模仿了一只运动中的鸟, 用不同的翼位所创建的形式的页面和绑定. 从羊群下面走过, 行人会注意到嵌入在广场地板上的文字和短语, 哪一个似乎是从上面的书页上掉下来的. 仔细观察, 堕落的词汇都是英语, 意大利语和汉语, 都是从附近丰富的文学史中挑选出来的.

在晚上, LED lights embedded within the books create visual patterns – at different times one might see the flock subtly pulsing or giving off a spectacular zoetrope effect. It is the first solar power-offset public artwork in California; the artists teamed with scientist David Shearer and Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Bookstore to provide solar power to the city’s grid, 抵消艺术品所消耗的能量.

巴基球

经验 巴基球 作者:Leo Villareal, a towering 25-foot illuminated sculpture that enlivens the Exploratorium's public space in both daylight and moonlight. 灵感来自未来主义者和发明家巴克明斯特·富勒的测地线圆顶, the spherical soccer ball-like form features two nested geodesic spheres comprised of 4,500个LED节点排列成一系列五边形和六边形. (Scientists discovered the form in a carbon molecule in 1985 and coined it the "Buckminsterfullerence" or "巴基球,科学家和材料工程师正在热切地研究这个问题。).

巴基球的S光序列是随机驱动的, 并且可以发出超过1600万种不同的颜色来创造旺盛, 不同速度的随机组合, color, 不透明度, 和规模. 简单的元素驱动着一个移动的全尺寸雕塑装置, 相互作用, 并最终发展成一个综合体, 动态形式，质疑空间的一般概念, 时间和感官愉悦.

螺旋跟踪

LUMA Hotel has given the gift of light art to passersby on the corner of Third and Channel streets. 当地艺术英雄吉姆·坎贝尔创造了另一个美丽的, 特定场地, dynamic light installation in the hotel's lobby that can be seen through floor-to-ceiling three-story windows. 多产的艺术家 白天换黑夜 atop the Salesforce Tower created this striking installation that looks different from every angle and uses the reflection of the windows to amplify its movement. 里面的人物爬上了一个无限延伸的瀑布, 让坎贝尔从身体的挣扎中创造快乐.

看到球

奥拉维尔·埃利亚松在美国最大的公共艺术品.S., 看到球, consists of five fifteen-and-a-half-feet-tall polished hydroformed steel spheres that stand in a circle around a central space. 每个球体支撑一个平面, 圆形镜面, 由一圈LED灯构成, which is oriented inward to reflect the mirrored faces of the surrounding spheres. 在一起, 它们创造了一个令人惊讶的多层环境, 同样的人和场景一次又一次出现的反射空间, 从各种意想不到的角度可见. 像隧道一样嵌套的反射在镜子中打开, 重复无数次，消失在远方.

位于大通中心25号,在体育馆东入口前，有一个面积达1000平方英尺的三角形广场, this striking new artwork establishes a prominent public setting in Thrive City for visitors to meet and interact.