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Illumination Migration
Illumination Migration by Frank Rozasy glows on Santa Monica Beach during the GLOW Art Festival on Sunday, July 20, 2008. Comprised of 950 variously hued glow sticks, vertically set in rows of 20 each and creating a 60 x 120 foot form on the beach, the sticks will be continually moved, from back row to front row, mimicking both the movement of the tide and more specifically the grunion’s coming ashore and returning to sea
GLOW
Guest examine a neon art piece at Santa Monica Beach during the GLOW Art Festival on Sunday, July 20, 2008. GLOW is presented by the City of Santa Monica in partnership with Bayside District Corporation, Pier Restoration Corporation and the Santa Monica Convention and Visitors Bureau. Inspired by the wildly successful Nuit Blanche in Paris, Glow is made possible through the support of generous sponsorship from organizations like the Norton Family Foundation. The event takes its spirit from the fabled grunions that live in local waters and come ashore several times a year to spawn in the sand creating a momentary sensation of iridescence.
The Migration of the Marine Tumbleweed
Dunnage Ball
Guest of GLOW art Festival climb into Peter Tolkin Projects' Dunnage Ball at Santa Monica Beach on Saturday, July 19, 2008. Composed of 30 dunnage bags (used to isolate and stabilize cargo during transportation), a 22’ diameter molecular-like structure was internally illuminated and placed on the beach in the northern end of the Glow zone. The public can sit within it and gaze out to the ocean and beyond.
Moon Theater
Moon Theater by Nova Jiang & Michael Kontopoulos is staged at Santa Monica Beach on during the GLOW Art Festival at on Sunday, July 20, 2008. Extending the common hand-shadow play of simple forms (i.e. the cast shadow of a rabbit), this project interjects the responsive capacity of specially constructed software to recognize basic forms and generate appropriate responses. For instance, if a visitor creates a rabbit form, the computer could trigger a response in which that form jumps off the screen, which will be in the shape of a full moon.
Nocturnal Affairs
Caroline Maxwell from the Department of Nocturnal Affairs types up a report during the GLOW Art Festival at on Sunday, July 20, 2008. Located on Palisades Park, The Department of Nocturnal Affairs, DNA, was a fully staffed and furnished field office for the collection of information regarding the nocturnal wildlife in Los Angeles County in general and in the Glow zone specifically. The public was asked to report wildlife sightings to the DNA, reports were recorded and made visible for the public by posting on a map and those reporting sightings received a glow-in-the-dark sticker.
SHINE
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SHINE, an all-female drumming and dance group, start the Glow all night art festival with a performance on Palisades Park and down the Santa Monica Pier on Saturday, July 19, 2008. GLOW is presented by the City of Santa Monica in partnership with Bayside District Corporation, Pier Restoration Corporation and the Santa Monica Convention and Visitors Bureau. Inspired by the wildly successful Nuit Blanche in Paris, Glow is made possible through the support of generous sponsorship from organizations like the Norton Family Foundation. The event takes its spirit from the fabled grunions that live in local waters and come ashore several times a year to spawn in the sand creating a momentary sensation of iridescence.
Viver Brasil
Viver Brasil processes to the ocean with live drumming, lively movement and song during the closing event to GLOW Art Festival at on Sunday, July 20, 2008. The ceremony celebrated life and power of the ocean and honored the beauty of the Afro-Brazilian salty and sweet water spirits, bearing gifts of white and yellow flowers presented to the goddesses, Yemanja and Oxum.