San Diego Airport DAZZLEs with High-Tech Public Art
Earlier this month the San Diego International Airport unveiled DAZZLE, a concerto of animations – a public artwork using E Ink Prism tile technology, taking shape across the façade of its new Rental Car Center. DAZZLE, a collaboration between E Ink, an innovator in electronic ink technology, and Ueberall International, an experiential design firm, transforms a 1,600-foot long façade into an interactive tech mural of over 2,000 individual solar-powered ePaper tiles that display custom animations across the exterior of the building. “The autonomous, solar-powered tiles use E Ink Prism, similar to the technology found in e-readers, but adapted for an architectural scale.” Each day, hundreds of thousands of airport visitors, motorists on the Interstate 5 Freeway and Pacific Coast Highway, and public transit users, will experience a work of art bigger than all its pieces, blending art, technology and animation, science, mathematics. DAZZLE takes inspiration from Norman Wilkinson’s “’razzle dazzle’ camouflage technique …
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