San Francisco-based conceptual artist Tom Loughlin and a couple of the officials associated with the very unique Bay Bridge Steel Program will be out on Treasure Island on Thursday, September 19 from 10am-12pm for a preview of Loughlin's new public art work, Signal, which debuts officially to the public September 22 and will remain in place on the island at least through 2022.
Signal is an interactive work made from three 12-ton girders from the former Eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge and a rare, original signal light from the top of the bridge. With a panoramic view of the Bay Area and its bridges, visitors can step into the sculpture and experience soft pulses of light from the signal lamp and a low, cyclical vibration calibrated to mimic a foghorn. Situated on the western edge of Treasure Island, Signal invites the public to consider our place in the natural landscape and the tools we build to traverse it.
This is the largest and most ambitious public art project to result from the Bay Bridge Steel Program, developed by The Oakland Museum of California and the Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee, to award just 15 artists and designers across California some of the former span's old bridge steel. This is also the first large-scale work selected to debut in the Bay Area and the first within the sightlines of the bridge itself.
More info: https://www.sfstation.com/2019/08/30/pieces-of-old-bay-bridge-repurposed-for-free-interactive-art-exhibit-on-treasure-island/
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Signal is an interactive work made from three 12-ton girders from the former Eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge and a rare, original signal light from the top of the bridge. With a panoramic view of the Bay Area and its bridges, visitors can step into the sculpture and experience soft pulses of light from the signal lamp and a low, cyclical vibration calibrated to mimic a foghorn. Situated on the western edge of Treasure Island, Signal invites the public to consider our place in the natural landscape and the tools we build to traverse it.
This is the largest and most ambitious public art project to result from the Bay Bridge Steel Program, developed by The Oakland Museum of California and the Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee, to award just 15 artists and designers across California some of the former span's old bridge steel. This is also the first large-scale work selected to debut in the Bay Area and the first within the sightlines of the bridge itself.
More info: https://www.sfstation.com/2019/08/30/pieces-of-old-bay-bridge-repurposed-for-free-interactive-art-exhibit-on-treasure-island/
San Francisco-based conceptual artist Tom Loughlin and a couple of the officials associated with the very unique Bay Bridge Steel Program will be out on Treasure Island on Thursday, September 19 from 10am-12pm for a preview of Loughlin's new public art work, Signal, which debuts officially to the public September 22 and will remain in place on the island at least through 2022.
Signal is an interactive work made from three 12-ton girders from the former Eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge and a rare, original signal light from the top of the bridge. With a panoramic view of the Bay Area and its bridges, visitors can step into the sculpture and experience soft pulses of light from the signal lamp and a low, cyclical vibration calibrated to mimic a foghorn. Situated on the western edge of Treasure Island, Signal invites the public to consider our place in the natural landscape and the tools we build to traverse it.
This is the largest and most ambitious public art project to result from the Bay Bridge Steel Program, developed by The Oakland Museum of California and the Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee, to award just 15 artists and designers across California some of the former span's old bridge steel. This is also the first large-scale work selected to debut in the Bay Area and the first within the sightlines of the bridge itself.
More info: https://www.sfstation.com/2019/08/30/pieces-of-old-bay-bridge-repurposed-for-free-interactive-art-exhibit-on-treasure-island/
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Signal is an interactive work made from three 12-ton girders from the former Eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge and a rare, original signal light from the top of the bridge. With a panoramic view of the Bay Area and its bridges, visitors can step into the sculpture and experience soft pulses of light from the signal lamp and a low, cyclical vibration calibrated to mimic a foghorn. Situated on the western edge of Treasure Island, Signal invites the public to consider our place in the natural landscape and the tools we build to traverse it.
This is the largest and most ambitious public art project to result from the Bay Bridge Steel Program, developed by The Oakland Museum of California and the Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee, to award just 15 artists and designers across California some of the former span's old bridge steel. This is also the first large-scale work selected to debut in the Bay Area and the first within the sightlines of the bridge itself.
More info: https://www.sfstation.com/2019/08/30/pieces-of-old-bay-bridge-repurposed-for-free-interactive-art-exhibit-on-treasure-island/
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Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA 94130
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