| Projected light will again pierce the night skies as the “Great Wall of Oakland” continues a second year of media screenings in downtown Oakland on Friday, September 5, 2008, during ArtMurmur, the First Fridays Art Night. Located on Grand Avenue just west of Broadway, the wall will be the canvas for exciting, experimental media art from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. The theme of the September 5 program will be “Urban Landscapes.” The “Great Wall of Oakland” showcases the work of regional and international media artists as well as classic film and video selections. The program of short films and videos on September 5 will feature interpretations by fourteen international media artists of urban landscapes from all over the world, rendered in an eclectic array of styles and approaches from time-lapse photography to hand-drawn animation to computer-generated imagery. Artists featured include Muriel Magenta, Lori Hammond, Tal Rosner, Santiago Caicedo, Jonathan Wilkinson, Gary Breslin, Christopher Messina, Fouridine Ang, Elena Wen, Simone Patterson, Sheldon Brown, Aaron Koblin, Guilherme Marcondes and Tadashi Moriyama. The “Great Wall of Oakland” overlooks Grand Avenue just west of Broadway, above a parking lot behind Luka’s Taproom & Lounge. The 100-foot-by-100 foot images are projected across Grand Avenue from the roof of Signature Properties’ Broadway Grand condominium building onto the eight-story back wall of Metrovation’s building at 2201 Broadway. The Great Wall is the venue for a monthly series of giant-screen media projection events during ArtMurmur, the First Fridays Art Night. The “Great Wall of Oakland” is sponsored by Metrovation in partnership with Signature Properties and the City of Oakland’s Public Art Program, which is partially sponsoring this event as experimental development of a media arts corridor, known as the Luminous Oakland Project, in Oakland’s Uptown area. For more information on the Public Art Program, visit www.oaklandculturalarts.org. ArtMurmur, the monthly First Fridays Art Night, is a festive, arts-positive event that has grown quickly and received national attention. Gallery exhibits, openings, music and impromptu street performances are all part of the loosely knit spectrum of activity that characterizes ArtMurmur. For more information, visit www.oaklandartmurmur.com. |
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