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Thursday, April 24, 2008

First Fridays Light Up the Night

By Dan
Projected light will again pierce the night skies as the “Great Wall of Oakland” continues a second year of media screenings in downtown Oakland on Friday, May 2, during ArtMurmur, the First Fridays Art Night. Located on Grand Avenue just west of  Broadway, the wall will be the canvas for exciting, experimental media art from approximately 8:30 p.m.–10 p.m. Scheduled for screening on May 2 are films and videos by international artists Pascal Dombis, Gary Breslin and Kun-I Chang.
 
The “Great Wall of Oakland” showcases the work of regional and international media artists as well as classic film and video selections. “We’re very pleased with the progress of our idea to provide a place for media artists to display their work to the public in the Uptown arts and entertainment district,” said Chris Curtis, Metrovation’s Project Manager for 2201 Broadway. “The ‘Great Wall of Oakland’ is fast becoming a must-see event and our success is due to our partnership with Signature Properties and the City of Oakland.”
 
The featured work on May 2 will be “Spin” by Paris-based artist Pascal Dombis. “Spin” bridges the divide between fine art and media art, depicting the proliferation of thousands of rotating circles to hypnotic effect. Also scheduled that evening are “Nightwatch,” an exploration of New York City at night by NYC-based artist Gary Breslin, and the multiple-award-winning short “Fission,” a meditation on our frenetically paced and image-obsessed culture by Taiwan-born, U.S.-based director Kun-I Chang.
 
The “Great Wall of Oakland” overlooks Grand Avenue just west of Broadway, above a parking lot behind Luka’s Taproom & Lounge. The 100-foot-by-100 foot images are projected across Grand Avenue from the roof of Signature Properties’ recently completed Broadway Grand condominium project onto the eight-story back wall of Metrovation’s building at 2201 Broadway. The Great Wall is the venue for a monthly series of giant-screen media projection events during ArtMurmur, the First Fridays Art Night.
 
Oakland artists and other residents with questions or ideas for future screenings on the Great Wall may contact the City’s Public Art Coordinator Steven Huss at shuss@oaklandnet.com.
 
The “Great Wall of Oakland” is sponsored by Metrovation in partnership with Signature Properties and the City of Oakland’s Public Art Program, which is partially sponsoring this event as experimental development of a media arts corridor, known as the Luminous Oakland Project, in Oakland’s Uptown area. For more information on the Public Arts Program, visit www.oaklandculturalarts.org.
 
ArtMurmur, the monthly First Fridays Art Night, is a festive, arts-positive event that has grown quickly and received national attention. Gallery exhibits, openings, music and impromptu street performances are all part of the loosely knit spectrum of activity that characterizes ArtMurmur. For more information, visit www.oaklandartmurmur.com.

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