JACQUES-CARTIER BRIDGE ILLUMINATION
I’ve always found the architecture and engineering of bridges to be both beautiful and facinating. After reading Colangelo’s piece and entering into an internet click hole, I choose this piece by Moment Factory. This data display uses the existing structure of the bridge to bring to life urban data from social media in Montreal. This project highlights the “collectivity” aspect of massive media, the virtue of physical and networked visibility, “collectivity remains part of the magic of public space: that we experience the same thing at the same time and can sense one another doing so too.”
Here is a link to the project: Jacques-Cartier Bridge by Moment Factory
“As cities and their citizens become increasingly nocturnal we have to think about tactics that architects, artists, and lighting designers are using to create buildings that maximize both their day and night-time functions? Hint: slapping a big rectangular, opaque screen on the side of a building is not the answer!” – Colangelo