Dear friends: For the most current update on viewing times/location of
Liliane Lijn's "Solar Hills" trial on Saturday, July 5, please check "Upcoming
Events: Jul 5: Solar Hills" at dmax.bampfa.berkeley.edu/blog/.
This will be on the far right of the opening screen. I will post most
recent info late evening July 4.
Please check it out!
Best,
Marcia Tanner
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PS: FYI, DMAX, the digital media art program at BAM/PFA, is headed by new
media curator Rick Rinehart. It "is based on principles of innovation, critical
inquiry, social participation, and open access, and is an integral part of
BAM/PFA’s plans for a new building that connects the campus and city of
Berkeley. As the epicenter of the information revolution, the Bay Area is a natural
home for digital media art programs that serve inquisitive audiences. DMAX
fosters this broad-based community of seekers that overlaps with the art
world, and also extends into academia, sciences, and industry. DMAX presents
experimental exhibitions of new media art, new forms of educational and public
programs, research into preservation and open access of digital art forms, and
participatory forums for critical dialogue.
"BAM/PFA is one of the first museums in the nation to recognize the
emergence of new media culture with a digital art program. Among its distinguished
peers, BAM/PFA's DMAX program is distinctive in several ways: the _scope_
(http://dmax.bampfa.berkeley.edu/#scope) of the program that encompasses
_education_ (http://dmax.bampfa.berkeley.edu/#edu) , _collections_ (http:
//dmax.bampfa.berkeley.edu/#coll) , _community_ (http://dmax.bampfa.berkeley.edu/#comm) ,
and _exhibitions_ (http://dmax.bampfa.berkeley.edu/#exhib) ; _the intellectual
engine of UC Berkeley_ (http://dmax.bampfa.berkeley.edu/#engine) ; and the
program's _character and values_ (http://dmax.bampfa.berkeley.edu/#character) "
In a message dated 6/24/2008 12:19:17 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, Marcialart
writes:
Dear friends,
Please mark your calendar for an extraordinary event happening on Saturday,
July 5 in San Francisco.
The British-based artist Liliane Lijn [ _www.lilianelijn.com/_
(http://www.lilianelijn.com/) ], together with her collaborator, Berkeley-based
astrophysicist John Vallerga, are setting up a temporary installation of their larger
work-in-progress -- SOLAR HILLS -- on Hawk Peak in the Marin Headlands on the
morning of July 5. Two computer-guided spectroheliostats will focus and beam
back the sun's light prismatically, through a shifting spectrum of colors,
creating an array visible from Crissy Field in San Francisco.
The planned time for the event is from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm.
A crew from BBC TV in London will be filming the installation for a film on
"Artists Working With Light" (it includes James Turrell, Robert Irwin and
Anthony McCall as well as Lijn) for the Imagine Arts program to run on BBC 1 in
October. Director of the film is Tim Kirby, assistant producer is Hattie
Bowering and the presenter is Alan Yentob. The artist will be there to respond to
viewers' questions.
PLEASE NOTE: Successful installation is dependent on weather conditions and
on receiving the necessary permits. We will have more definitive information
regarding the above conditions 3 to 4 days prior to the event. I'll send an
email update at that time with exact times and viewing location[s]. Should
Hawk Peak be fogged in on the morning of July 5th, the alternative installation
site will be on Grizzly Peak in Berkeley later that day.
Hope you can make it! It'll be memorable.
Best,
Marcia [Tanner]
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