Artist Leo Villareal Shines a Permanent Light on San Francisco with LED Lighting from Philips
January 28 2016 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
- The Bay Lights, a Dynamic installation
featuring 25,000 Philips connected LEDs, returns to Bay Bridge
- New system employs Philips ActiveSite
technology for efficient monitoring and maintenance
This Saturday, the non-profit arts organization, ILLUMINATE, the
California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), the
Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and world-renowned
artist Leo Villareal will officially re-light The Bay Lights, an
iconic LED lighting installation on the San Francisco Bay Bridge,
using equipment developed by Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA),
the global leader in lighting. The artwork, which originally
appeared in March 2013 as a two-year installation, will now
permanently illuminate the San Francisco Bay’s night sky with
25,000 Philips connected light points and an advanced cloud-based
connected lighting platform to remotely monitor and maintain the
lighting system.
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The new installation uses eW Flex Compact lighting from Philips
Color Kinetics, featuring individually controllable white light LED
nodes in a durable, flexible form factor, which are four times
brighter than those in the original installation. The unique
attributes of eW Flex Compact allow low-profile, low-power,
intelligent points of white light to be installed across nearly any
interior or exterior surface, making it an ideal choice for The Bay
Lights project. Dynamic capabilities of The Bay Lights project are
enabled by an underlying Ethernet-based data network, in which each
of the 25,000 controllable light points are linked for simultaneous
control. The installation is further enhanced by Philips ActiveSite
System, a cloud-based connected lighting platform that affords
remote diagnostics, reporting, data analytics and control for
efficient installations management.
“The re-lighting of the Bay Bridge is a testament to the impact
of Leo Villareal’s magnificent design on the San Francisco
community,” said Amy Huntington, President of Philips Lighting
Americas. “Philips is proud to be a part of the work by ILLUMINATE,
Caltrans and Metropolitan Transportation Commission to make this
one-of-a-kind light structure a permanent fixture over the San
Francisco Bay.”
Overall, the project uses roughly 4.5 miles of cable and 75,000
LEDs to create a monumental light canvas for Leo Villareal’s
complex algorithms and patterns, which dynamically recombine,
transforming the bridge into a living work of art.
“The original Bay Lights installation served as a major source
of pride in San Francisco and helped to increase tourism in the
area,” said Saeed Shahmirzai of Zoon Engineering, the Bay Bridge
MEP Integrator. “Thanks to advanced LED and system monitoring
technology from Philips, we are able to build on those benefits and
install an energy-efficient work of art that makes the Bay Bridge a
true beacon of the San Francisco Bay Area.”
About Royal Philips
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a diversified health and
well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through
meaningful innovation in the areas of Healthcare, Consumer
Lifestyle and Lighting. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips
posted 2014 sales of EUR 21.4 billion and employs approximately
106,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100
countries. The company is a leader in cardiac care, acute care and
home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new
lighting applications, as well as male shaving and grooming and
oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at
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About Leo Villareal
Leo Villareal is known internationally for his light sculptures
and site-specific architectural works. His work focuses on
stripping systems down to their essence to better understand the
underlying structures governing how they work. He is interested in
lowest common denominators such as pixels, or the zeros and ones,
in binary code. The visual manifestation of the code in light is at
the core of the artist's interest.
Villareal’s recent exhibitions include a traveling survey
organized by the San Jose Museum of Art as well as a presentation
of Cylinder II at the Hayward Gallery in London, which is currently
traveling to Auckland, New Zealand; Sydney, Australia, and Sharjah,
UAE. Recent works include The Light Matrix at 1306 Market Street in
Philadelphia, Buckyball, Dallas at Northpark Center in Dallas and
Volume (Renwick) at Renwick Gallery in the Smithsonian in
Washington DC.
His work is in the permanent collections of museums such as the
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY; Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan; and
the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
About ILLUMINATE
ILLUMINATE aims to alter the arc of human history through the
creation of transformational works of public art. Its mission is to
produce contemporary art with civic impact, social activation and
global reach to stimulate a culture of generosity and
collaboration. Illuminate raised funds and produced both the
original installation of The Bay Lights in 2013 and the permanent
reinstallation in 2016. It is gifting The Bay Lights to the
people of California so they will be maintained by Caltrans and
will lift the gaze and spirits of Bay Area residents and visitors
for generations to come.
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