Proposal:For my instillation
I would
like to bring the ever changing climate to the attention of the
everyday commuter.
I am proposing to require that every car in San Francisco city limits
be
equiped with a GPS tracking device. I would then inststsall a lasrge
LED
screen in union square. This screen would consist of hundreds of
thousands
of dots representing every car in the cities limits. When a car leaves
the
city limits the dot representing that car would disappear. The second
part
to my proposal would be the placement of another LED screen that would
act
as a counter. This LED counter is going to have a direct connection
with
the amount of Carbon Monoxide (CO) in San Francisco's air. I would be
working
with the Bay Area Air Quality
Management group which is a government ran group that monitors
pollutants in the air. When ever these levels change the counter would
change. This is to show everyone especially commuters the amount of
carbon monoxide they are producing in the city limits. The BAAQM
monitors these levels in Parts Per Million (PPM) which is the number of
parts of a given pollutant in a million parts of air. On average the CO
levels in San Francisco is at a five. Anything over that is considered
an unhealthy level.
History: The Global Positioning System, now commonly known GPS was
designed, built, operated and maintained by the U.S. Department of
Defense. The first operationl GPS
sattelite
was launched in 1978 snd By the mid-1990s the system was fully
operational
with 24 satellites. It was only a matter
of
time before artists began to appropriate this technology into their
work.
The first practical light-emitting diode
screen
(LED) was created in 1962. An LED is a diode made of semiconductor
material that glows when electricity is passed through it Although neither of these technologies were created
for
artists it was only a matter of time
before
they began to appropriate this technology into their work
