A real-time data driven LED light installation, rippling up or down the street in time with the tidal cycle in the adjacent estuary, commissioned by the City of Yonkers as part of the ongoing Experience Digital Yonkers project. There were three separate orders of site-sensitivity to provide for:
1) relating the railway, roads, pedestrian walksways, and other built elements to their natural context, in particular the adjacent Hudson estuary;
2) driver and pedestrian safety: ensuring that the project would not introduce distracting or blinding hazards; ensuring that the installation would always provide at least as much light as the existing safety lighting.
3) compatibility with the existing relief sculpture on the parapet face, a prior Metro North public art commission with a thematic orientation to the flow of the estuary.
We did a bit of extra work specifying equipment and protocols for this project to help ensure long-term reliability/serviceability by using the same components and control systems that the city (and therefore its staff) were already using for architectural lighting at City Hall. Philips lighting system programming work by Josh Golberg, assisted by Joe Sicuranza at the City of Yonkers.