Fresh art at San Digeo Int’l Airport covers car rental center

DAZZLE at SAN courtesy Pablo Mason

 

San Diego International Airport (SAN) has a new giant art installation – called DAZZLE – covering the nearly one-third-mile  face of the airport’s Rental Car Center facing Pacific Highway.

Created by the artist team Uebrall International, the giant high-tech public art installation is made up of  2,100 solar-powered and computer-controlled e-paper panels that transform the building into a changeable, animated mural.

Computer controls allow the e-paper panels to act as individual pixels that, working together, are programmed to display more than 15 unique, artist-designed  animations “that evoke everything from water ripples to moving traffic to dancing snowflakes,” according to Ueberall artist Nik Hafermaas, , who chairs the Graphic Design department at ArtCenter College of Design. 

Why call it DAZZLE ?

The work is named for dazzle camouflage, a type of ship camouflage developed by Norman Wilkinson and used in World War I. Using stripes and other patterns, dazzle helped camouflage the outlines of ships.

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