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LAX Public Video Art Project: SEE CHANGE

Permanent Installation:
Tom Bradley International Arrivals Terminal

Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) / LAX
Work by 17 Artists commisioned BY L.A. Dept of Cultural Affairs

System designed and Programmed by Jon 9
96 Screens, 60 Media Servers
Project Directed by: Felicia Filer,  Los Angeles Dept of Cultural Affairs
Art Manager, Los Angeles World Airports:  Sarah Ciffarelli
Art Consultant / Curator:  Anne Bray

“a colorful and engaging display that will put the ‘Wow’ in Tom Bradley International Terminal for many years to come…” – Ronnie Garrett, AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT MAGAZINE

Digital Art at LAX

JUNE 25, 2010 — 3:11 PM PDT
UPDATED JUNE 25, 2010 — 4:05 PM PDT

By Katie Obrien

The next time you get off a long trans-Pacific flight, you might just want to stay at the airport … and if you’re picking up a friend who is flying in to LA, you might want to make sure you’re there really early.  That’s because now, at the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, you’re not just a traveler … you’re a viewer in a high-tech art gallery.

The terminal is midway through a major renovation project, and it’s more inviting, exciting, and easy to navigate than ever before.  Best of all, in the recently-unveiled meet-and-greet area on the arrivals level, the centerpiece of the redesign is a huge public art project.

Passengers, friends, and families are now privy to one of LA’s most exciting art projects.  It’s a digital art display with over 100 screens positioned around the meet-and-greet area. The screens are part of a unique, complex, custom-made system that showcases work from artists around the country. Bright colors, gripping images, and a strong thread of Southern Californian identity unite the works.  Who needs the LACMA or the Getty?  LAX is bringing some of the best and most high-tech American art right to your gate.

http://www.aerochannel.com/2010/06/art-at-lax/

A Public Video Art Installation Arrives at LAX

February 2010 – Santa Monica, CA – Los Angeles, renown for its mural art, is also famous for its public art program, which requires City departments and private developers to contribute one percent of construction costs of new buildings to public art.  The current expansion of LAX’s Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) is therein realizing one of the largest, most impressive video art project installations at any airport worldwide.

The Department of Cultural Affairs Public Art Director Felicia Filer and LAX’s Airport Art Manager Sarah Cifarelli are overseeing the project that will become on view by mid-March and completed by this summer.

The video art will be showcased in two areas of TBIT’s Arrivals Level Lobby.  Seventeen artists and artist teams from Los Angeles to New York have been commissioned to create site-specific video artworks for display on a video wall or from a ceiling-suspended linear 90-feet filmstrip.  The video wall offers twenty-five 46” LCD screens in a 5’X5’ matrix, while the 29-channel filmstrip provides fifty-eight, back-to-back, 46” LCD screens.

Key contributors to the project include multi-screen digital technologist and programmer Jon 9 of Holonyne Corporation, architects (Ted Wheaton of AECOM; Leo A. Daly), contractors  (PARSONS, Richard VanderMeide), construction and installation (CMJV/SASCO), technology providers (Green Hippo of London and its U.S. distributor TMB), and artist and media arts coordinator Anne Bray of L.A. Freewaves, and the LAWA I.T. Department, among others.

The MultiMedia Display and Control System (MDCS) designed and programmed by Jon 9, processes approximately 1,658,888,000 individual pixels of visual information per second, producing images with resolutions up to 37,120 pixels wide – the width of 16 digital movie screens side-by-side. Equally consequential is that never before has a group of artists had access to such high-end image processing technology.

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System Schematic
Designed by Jon 9