Tonight in Philly: Art in the Air II

Keep your eyes on the PECO Crown Lights tonight shortly after 7pm and throughout the evening. Round two of Art in the Air will feature works by: Jamie Dillon, the Klip Collective and Brian Oakes. Artist bios and info about the Art in the Air program can be found HERE

PECO Crown [...]

Deadlines for Art in the Air 2010

Rachele Riley, PECO simulation

Updated information and the submission deadlines for the Art in the Air digital public art initiative are up. Regional artists (PA, NJ, DE) working with digital media are encouraged to submit work for review and possible deplay on PECO’s Crown Lights Tower. Click HERE [...]

Art in the Air artist: Rachele Riley

Rachele Riley is one the three artists selected for the launch of last week’s inaugural Art in the Air program. Rachele teaches at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts.  She studied Studio Art at New York University and Communication Design at the Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle in Germany, before earning her MFA in [...]

*Waiting for VBLANK*

Wil Lindsay, one of three digital artists selected for the inaugural July 4th Art in the Air initiative shot some home video of PECO’s Crown Lights tower in action. Wil’s 30 second clip is an extension of an ongoing project he works on called, VBLANK:

The name VBLANK is derived from the code used to [...]

A bit of 8 bit

Art in the Air launched to great fanfare over the July 4th weekend. Don Miller and Wil Lindsay, two of the PECO Crown Lights artists are involved with the 8bit music scene that uses obsolete console and computer hardware from the 8 bit era of video games — also known as chiptunes.

One website that posted about [...]

ART IN THE AIR

PECO Crown Lights display

Check out PECO’s Crown Lights display tonight (July 4th) and every first Friday of the month for the rest of the year to see digital art created by artists living in the Philadelphia/Tri-State region.  Breadboard is partnering with PECO to create – ART IN THE AIR – a new digital arts initiative  [...]

Breadboard & PECO partner on digital art initiative

view of PECO Crown Lights display

Breadboard is proud to partner with PECO on an exciting initiative that will launch as part of Philadelphia’s annual Welcome America Celebration.

From PECO:

“On Sunday, July 4, PECO will celebrate the first anniversary of the launch of its new energy efficienct LED PECO Crown Lights display and to further highlight the new system’s [...]