Public Art: Bay Bridge Lights

The genius of the Bay Bridge Lights as a public Art piece is that it can be turned on, adding art/form to art/function, or off and gone.

It's generally not possible to turn off an art piece and have it be virtually unnoticeable.

Some people criticize the Bay Bridge Lights. I equate those people to the Parisians who hated the Eiffel Tower when it was first built.

Short sited. Critical without foresight.

The lights don't turn the bridge into a shadow. They add 21st century beauty and elegance to 20th century beauty and elegance that is often hidden in shadow or fog. The lights bring attention to the function and form Art can take, and the ways which technology effects us. Art and technology can build us bridges to cut travel times or light spaces to take us to places we never knew we could go. The lights helps us see the beauty of the bridge, and the simple fantastic production value of an algorithm and highly efficient light bulbs.

I'm a big fan of the lights and think the should be made permanent.

Oz Metaphors

The Wizard as 'Alexander the Great' #OzMetaphors

The Emerald City as Rome.

Oz as pre-Revolutionary War America.

Emerald City as New York City at the turn of the century.