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Doug Aitken to Wrap The Seattle Art Museum With LED Video Art Screen

Doug Aitken to Wrap The Seattle Art Museum With LED Video Art Screen

Seattle is about to get a new public art installation on the walls of SAM, the Seattle Art Museum. The museum that created the nearby Olympic Sculpture Park—one of the best public art spaces in the country—has commissioned artist Doug Aitken to install a new reflective wall on the corner of their building at First Avenue and Union Street. Aitken calls the wall installation Mirror and it is meant to “reflect the energy and movement of the city.”

The piece consists of a large LED display wrapping the building’s corner facade and up the building’s primary wall with scenes slowly filmed by Aitken of “images, surfaces, locations and landscapes.” These digital views will then be reduced to minimal compositions and alternate with empty landscapes and dense urban scenes of the Seattle region.

Further Aitken has programmed the piece to be “conditioned and programmed by local “weather information, pedestrian traffic flow, atmospheric conditions and traffic density. The digital facade Aitken imagines will be “like choreography with no music” and allows the images to “define the composition and patterns in real time and into the future.”


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