[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Liliane Lijn's "Solar Hills" Project Trial Run, July 5th, San Francisco, CA

[Leonardo/ISAST]

Mark your calendar for an extraordinary event happening on Saturday, 
July 5, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. 
 
The British-based artist Liliane Lijn, together with her collaborator, 
Berkeley-based astrophysicist John Vallerga, are setting up a temporary 
installation of their larger work-in-progress -- SOLAR HILLS -- on Hawk 
Peak in the Marin Headlands on July 5, 2008. Two computer-guided 
spectroheliostats will focus and beam back the sun's light 
prismatically, through a shifting spectrum of colors, creating an array 
visible from Crissy Field in San Francisco.
 
The planned time for the event is from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm.
 
A crew from BBC TV in London will be filming the installation for a film 
on "Artists Working With Light" (it includes James Turrell, Robert Irwin 
and Anthony McCall as well as Lijn) for the Imagine Arts program to run 
on BBC 1 in October. Director of the film is Tim Kirby, assistant 
producer is Hattie Bowering and the presenter is Alan Yentob. The artist 
will be there to respond to viewers' questions.
 
PLEASE NOTE: Successful installation is dependent on weather conditions 
and on receiving the necessary permits. We will have more definitive 
information regarding the above conditions 3 to 4 days prior to the 
event. Exact time and viewing location[s] will be posted closer to the 
event. Should Hawk Peak be fogged in on the morning of July 5th, the 
alternative installation site will be on Grizzly Peak in Berkeley later 
that day.
 
The concept and development of "/Solar Hills"/ is the outcome of Lijn's 
residency at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of 
California, Berkeley (co-sponsored by Leonardo/OLATS) in the spring of 
2005. The project is a collaboration with astronomer John Vallerga. For 
more about the project and the work of Liliane Lijn, visit: 
http://www.lilianelijn.com/

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