Project Overview
Lightspan | Court Avenue Bridge
“The impact from street level is nuanced just enough to catch the eye of passersby and lead them into the park where they can see the bridge light up when they cross its span.”
Electroland studio (Cameron McNall and Damon Seeley, along with their team of tech engineers and architects) designed an interactive lighting design project for this pedestrian bridge, debuted 26 August 2010. It is motion-sensitive so that an endlessly variable series of dynamic color effects light the span of the bridge whenever people walk across it. The impact from street level is nuanced just enough to catch the eye of passersby and lead them into the park where they can see the bridge light up when they cross its span. Many thanks for the assistance of its volunteer selection committee, the Public Art Oversight Committee, the architecture firm of Ritchie Smith Associates, the Riverfront Development Corporation who built the bridge, and the efforts of the UrbanArt project management staff with the cooperation of City administrators as a part of the City of Memphis Percent-for-Art Program. As Memphis' first permanent work of new media public art, the artists feel it is a unique asset to the city for quite some time to come!
About the organization
Electroland, LLC (Cameron McNall & Damon Seeley)
Electroland LLC was founded in 2001 by Principal Cameron McNall and Partner Damon Seeley. The work of Electroland has received wide notice for its conceptual strength and originality and has been featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Triennial in New York. They live and work in Los Angeles, CA.
Principal Cameron McNall is an architect, educated at UCLA and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His many awards across disciplines include the Rome Prize in Architecture, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, and the Siggraph Theater for digital animation.
Damon Seeley is a designer and technologist who co-founded Electroland. In 2014 Damon left Electroland to join Google in Mountain View to do some more awesome work. Nevertheless, Electroland is still going strong.
