The Santa Clara Street project will be called Sensing You and will include a mural covering the columns and "underside" of the overpass as well as LED lighting elements. Sounds great so far, no? It gets better. The project includes sensors that cause the artwork to react based on the volume of pedestrian traffic. There will also be a partnership with Google's Nitanic Lab--creators of the augmented reality game Ingress--that will allow players to have special abilities to interact with the artwork. Awesome.
Over at San Fernando Street, the project will be entitled Sensing Water. The LED artwork will vary day to day and season to season based on information taken from the Guadalupe River.
I'm very much looking forward to seeing both of these come to life, as well as the other artwork and interactive exhibits that the grant will bring Downtown!
Hat tip to Brent Pearse for sending this in.
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Very cool. Can't wait till it's installed. But since I have no choice I will wait.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea, and have followed this project since it was first announced a couple years ago. And I like the concepts and interactivity shown for these two underpasses. But I have to say, from these renderings it looks like it's still going to be quite dark underneath. Darkness = feeling less secure = greater perceived barrier = less ped traffic. If an "illumination" project isn't actually addressing the lack of lighting, how much good are we really doing?
ReplyDeleteCool beans! The lights will be really neat. Lets hope its doesn't take 2 years to implement.
ReplyDeleteThey should also stick some little shops under there..Sharks gear, concession stand type stuff etc. Pop-ups perhaps.
Lets just hope these paint sniffers dont go and ruin it sith thiergraffiti!
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