Lighting Designer Creates Dynamic LED Art Installation with Traxon Technologies at San Francisco International Airport
24 Junho 2019 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Artist Johanna Grawunder composes multi-channel light
arrangement in long-term parking facility, complementing SFO’s wide
range of artistic installations
Traxon Technologies, an Osram
business and global leader in dynamic lighting solutions, is
brightening the skyline in San Francisco as the exclusive lighting
provider for an art installation at San Francisco International
Airport’s (SFO) long-term parking garage. The art installation by
Johanna Grawunder, titled Coding, uses a range of
Traxon lighting technologies to create a subtle light show that is
visible throughout the day and night, and uses the building’s
existing steel beams and mirrored windows to suggest dots and
dashes, ultimately spelling “San Francisco” in Morse code.
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(Cesar Rubio Photos) The lighting
installation in the long-term parking garage at San Francisco
International Airport, designed by artist Johanna Grawunder
(https://www.grawunder.com), titled Coding, uses a range of Traxon
lighting technologies to create a subtle light show that is visible
throughout the day and night, and uses the building’s existing
steel beams and mirrored windows to suggest dots and dashes,
ultimately spelling “San Francisco” in Morse code.
“We are in the age of coding,” Grawunder said. “San Francisco is
a city of layers that can be discovered slowly in neighborhoods and
microclimates, or breathtakingly all at once, such as from the
Golden Gate Bridge. Each layer has its own complexities and ‘codes’
to be cracked. Coding is an immersive environment installation
defined through layers of codes — decorative elements that each
express a specific quality and experience of the elevator tower at
the long-term parking garage. These code-layers are dynamic day and
night through the use of materials that respond to reflection,
luminosity and programmed color-changing light.”
The artistic lighting installation at SFO, commissioned by the
San Francisco Arts Commission, uses dynamic lighting solutions from
Osram’s Traxon Technologies, including Dot XL-9 RGB and Washer
Quattro RGBW as well as dynamic lighting controls by Osram’s e:cue.
In the elevator cabins and shafts, Traxon’s Washer Quattro RGBW and
Dot XL-9 RGB create an immersive experience through coordinated
light shows which change throughout the day and night.
Additionally, customized light boxes internally lit with Traxon Dot
XL-9 RGB create a soft-glow of color-changing lighting that adds to
the dynamic installation. A centrally located control system
operating e:cue SYMPHOLIGHT lighting control software coordinates
the lighting between the light boxes and elevator shafts and cars
to execute Grawunder’s artistic vision.
“Art creates an emotional experience, and we’re excited to work
with Johanna Grawunder to help bring her artistic vision to light,”
said David Brooks, Head of Traxon e:cue, North America. “Traxon’s
innovative lighting technologies have a wide range of applications,
from artistic expressions such as Johanna’s installation at San
Francisco International Airport, to interior and exterior facades
in a variety of industries including retail, hospitality,
entertainment and many more architectural applications.”
“San Francisco International Airport has established a
reputation as not just a place where one catches a plane, but as a
destination for some of the country’s most ambitious public art
installations,” said Tom DeCaigny, Director of Cultural Affairs,
San Francisco Arts Commission. “With each new capital project, the
San Francisco Arts Commission has the opportunity to innovate and
stretch the imagination of what public art at an airport can be. We
are incredibly grateful to the airport for partnering with us as we
continue to push artistic boundaries.”
Grawunder’s Coding art installation will be on permanent display
at SFO’s new long-term parking facility as one of the many art
installations at the airport.
For more information about the products go to
www.osram.us/traxon, and for more information about
Osram, visit www.osram.us.
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with a history dating back more than 110 years. Primarily focused
on semiconductor-based technologies, our products are used in
highly diverse applications ranging from virtual reality to
autonomous driving and from smartphones to networked, intelligent
lighting solutions in buildings and cities. OSRAM utilizes the
infinite possibilities of light to improve the quality of life for
individuals and communities. OSRAM’s innovations will enable people
all over the world not only to see better, but also to communicate,
travel, work, and live better. As of the end of fiscal year 2018
(September 30), OSRAM had approximately 26,200 employees worldwide.
It generated revenue of more than €3.8 billion from continued
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exchanges in Frankfurt and Munich (ISIN: DE000LED4000; WKN: LED400;
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companies located in North and South America. As a leader in
lighting solutions and services specializing in innovative design
and energy-saving technology, the company sells products under the
brand names OSRAM, Traxon, ENCELIUM and SYLVANIA. The portfolio
ranges from high-tech applications based on semiconductor
technology, such as infrared or laser lighting, to smart and
connected lighting solutions in buildings and cities. The OSRAM
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