cindy bernard

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untitled[gel/sound]
Car 127, Los Angeles Metro Blue Line
collaboration with Joseph Hammer
Installed march - november 2002

untitled[gel/sound] uses theatrical lighting gels and near subliminal audio to intervene in the visual and aural field of the Metro Rail rider. The urban view is changed through placing colored gels on the tram windows and the sound of light rail travel is shifted through low to mid-frequency "interference." Gels are placed in 8-10 of the 16 car windows on one Blue Line tram (parts A and B) and one Green Line tram (parts A and B). We have chosen red, green and blue gels, which are both the primary colors and the colors designating the three lines of the Metro Rail system. The shades selected are the most subtle perceptually while still acting as screens for different bands of the color spectrum. The audio will be equally subtle - a low to mid-frequency ambient hum that interacts with the existing sound of the tram ride. The work of untitled[gel/sound] resides within the perception of the transit rider. Through subtly altering the experience of the daily commute we hope to heighten and intensify the awareness of the urban view as experienced through the tram window as well as the ephemeral social and perceptual space of mass transit.

untitled[gel/sound] was a project of Metrolab, a series of 4 temporary art projects sponsored by the MTA for the Metrorail system.