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• FOG now has more than 70 members, and is growing fast. We’re a group of interested ciEzens, who want to be involved • We represent diverse perspecEves, talents & professions • While we have a strong arts focus, we are also urban planners, engineers, educators, entrepreneurs, marketers and communicaEons professionals
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Our vision will: • create conEnuity across program areas • create deeper connecEons with Bay Area communiEes • keep the focus on vital and dynamic interacEvity • invest in self-‐sustaining programs
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• We will provide examples of some of the most successful urban development and redevelopment projects around the country and the world, all of which used the arts as an organizing principal.
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Chicago’s Millennium Park drew 16 million visitors in the first 5 years,
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and is expected to increase tourist dollars by $2.6B over the first 10.
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• BaXery Park City on ManhaXan’s southern Ep is a highly successful, mixed-‐use waterfront community that integrated the arts in a rich way from the outset.
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NYC’s new High Line Park, fundamentally supported by it’s friends group…
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… is expected to generate $4B in private investment…
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… and some $900M in new city revenues over the next 30 years.
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Over 2 million people visited the High Line in its first year.
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The Gates, a temporary installaEon in NYC’s Central Park, drew 4M visitors…
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… and generated some $254M in new city revenue.
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Figment is a free, annual celebraEon of parEcipatory art & culture...
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… that has transformed NY’s Governor’s Island into a major art aXracEon.
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SeaXle’s Olympic Sculpture Park, built on a 9 acre industrial site, is now a beloved open space for rotaEng and permanent contemporary art.
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BalEmore’s HUD-‐funded live/work housing for arEsts anchors the city’s new arts and entertainment district.
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St. Louis’ City Museum draws 750,000 people per year in a city of 350,000.
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It is an interacEve play park fashioned from reclaimed materials and objects such as salvaged bridges and construcEon cranes.
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Visitors are encouraged to have up-‐close and personal experience of the exhibits…
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… such as this guy here with the model train display.
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Another example, Alexandria Virginia’s Torpedo Factory Arts Center aXracts 500K visitors annually…
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… houses 165 arEsts, an archeology museum and an arts school.
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London’s Tate Modern, constructed in a former power staEon…
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… is anchoring the economic resurgence of the South Bank, with its 4.7 million visitors per year.
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Moscow’s converted Red October Chocolate Factory (on Bolotny Island) now houses residenEal lohs, galleries, performance spaces, and a design college.
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Park de la VilleXe in Paris’ 19th arrondissement is a site where local arEsts and musicians produce exhibits and performances.
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In 2012, the harbor area in the Danish City of Koge will be transformed into a giganEc temporary exhibiEon where art, play and movement will join forces.
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In Germany’s Landschahspark, former factory buildings spread over 500 acres are being used for cultural and corporate funcEons. It features an oil tank that has become an arEficial diving center…
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… and an exEnct blast furnace is now a panoramic tower.
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La Princesse, a gargantuan anamatronic spider…
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… has been greeted by huge crowds in places as diverse as Liverpool, England and Yokahama, Japan.
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Tanks Art Center in Cairns, Australia is housed in three converted WWII oil storage tanks.
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It’s 4 kilometers outside the city center and plays host to a broad program of arts and cultural events.
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The Arts can and do foster creaEve economies. According to the Americans for the Arts recent report on Arts & Economic Prosperity: • Arts & Culture industries generate $166B in economic acEvity annually and supports 5.7 million full-‐Eme jobs. • In the US, government at the local, state and naEonal levels invests $4B annually in the arts, which in turn generates $30B in new government revenue per year. • according to the reports, communiEes that offer an abundance of arts and culture opportuniEes aXract and retain a disparate proporEon of talented young professionals
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In addiEon to strengthening the local social fabric and creaEng a sense of place, using the arts as an organizing principal would: • aXract naEonal and internaEonal tourists. • cultural tourists stay longer and spend more than other types of tourists; twice as much as their local counterparts. • an arts focus would provide opportuniEes for grant funding and private sector support. • as we’ll discuss in the context of our academy concept, this approach would foster engagement with the Bay Area’s corporate powerhouses of innovaEon and creaEve enterprise.
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The East Bay is the internaEonal epicenter of the new Industrial Arts Movement, a fact on which The Gateway should capitalize.
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The Flaming Lotus Girls’ Serpent Mother
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Michael ChrisEan’s Koilos
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The Panhandle Bandshell Project (made from reclaimed materials) was funded in part by the SF Dept. of the Environment.
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Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito’s Passage at Pier 14 on the Embarcadero
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Michael ChrisEan’s Flock
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Pepe Ozan’s Monicacos de Esperanza at Hunter’s Point
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Marco Cochrane’s Bliss Dance at Burning Man 2010
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Mike Ross’ Big Rig Jig at Burning Man 2007
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The Raygun Gothic Rocketship at Pier 14 on the Embarcadero
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David Best’s Hayes Green Temple Project
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Ann Hamilton’s Tower designed for sounds performances, commissioned by Steve Oliver.
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Pepe Ozan’s Dreamer in Golden Gate Park
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Aher the second public meeEng, we engaged in a rich online dialogue and generated a number of ideas. We’ve chosen six concepts that illustrate the strength of using art as an organizing principal.
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The Bay Area has an exisEng network of creaEon and exhibiEon spaces for monumental artwork. The Gateway could become the focal point for all this acEvity by creaEng an arEst in residency program that would be, effecEvely, a workshop in the public eye. ArEsts, from the Bay Area and around the world, would be invited to create Monumental Artworks and the general public would be invited to watch the process. Artworks would be displayed on a rotaEng basis not only within The Gateway, but also on: Treasure Island the new Blue Greenway Opportunity for naEonal & internaEonal exchange programs Perhaps uElize one of the historical buildings
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A center or think-‐tank that will aXract people from around the world to collaborate: a cross-‐disciplinary mixing of art, science, architecture, technology and industry. The Academy could host a twice-‐annual compeEEon to bring creaEve minds together to problem solve. For example, NY MOMA recently hosted the “Rising Currents Project” where architects, landscape designers, planners & ecologists came together to re-‐envision NYC in the context of climate change and sea level rise.
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This 45,000 square-‐foot “Nomadic Museum” was assembled from containers in ports of call around the world…
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… and served as the home for traveling art exhibiEons.
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This sunset observatory on the harbor in Incheon, South Korea was made from 5 recycled shipping containers.
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This shipping container café and restaurant…
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…was create by Germany’s Platoon art collecEve.
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"Sky is the Limit" teahouse in Yang Yang, South Korea
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This art school in Anyang, South Korea is made from containers perched atop one other creaEng space beneath for a public amphitheater.
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Student housing in the Utrecht created from shipping containers.
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1000 units of student housing in Amsterdam.
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Container City in London.
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Bridge being replaced for a reason. It’s seismically deficient. Some porEons are in good condiEon – primarily the spans. The main problem areas are around joints, bearings, piers, and foundaEons. When it’s not a bridge a lot of these problems go away. No cars, no joints, lower performance standard.
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Reuse op<ons Reusing or retaining the eastern spans make the most sense. Their scrap value has dropped dramaEcally of late. They are BIG – 300’x65’x42’. One of those spans makes about 40,000sqh. Opportunity for protected space. On land, they create an instant legacy, a huge idenEty piece for the Park.
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What you are seeing here are food carts in Portland. The mobile food cart scene has exploded in Portland, OR with nearly 600 carts registered…
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It is considered a tourist desEnaEon in its own right. The carts have low operaEng costs, offer prospects of self-‐employment…
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The Portland food carts have been covered by Gourmet, Bon AppeFt, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Splendid Table and the Travel Channel. Our idea is to have arEsts crah iconic container-‐restaurants, establishing an enclave of some 50 container-‐restaurants that showcase the best of the Bay Area food culture and that become, like the Ferry Building, a desEnaEon for foodies.
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They are perfectly-‐suited to creaEng a new hub for the Bay Area food culture. Adaptable and open to experimentaEon.
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• we envision a myriad of light art projects, from large to small, some temporary, some permanent • in concert, they create a vibrant, visual Gateway to the East Bay • a round-‐the-‐clock aXracEon • and an exploraEon of the IntersecEon of art & technology for which the Bay Area is famous
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This interacEve artwork allowed parEcipants to transform the sky over Vancouver, Canada…
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… using a three-‐dimensional web interface, people designed light sculptures by direcEng 20 roboEc searchlights.
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The Gateway could support a broad spectrum of light art projects (Dan Corson’s “Empyream Passage” in West Hollywood)
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From grand in in scale… (Janet Echelman’s new work in Phoenix, Arizona.)
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And one of Echelman’s pieces in Portugual, as seen during the day.
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Brian Eno’s sound and light project for the Sydney Opera House
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Portland’s Hawthorne Bridge, transformed.
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To those that are more inEmate. (Leo Villareal’s work at the Smithsonian.)
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Jaume Plensa, The Nomad
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… to the very human-‐scaled.
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A detail from the work of local light arEst Jeremy Lutes; he crahed an enEre interacEve Lily Pond that when you walked through it, responded as if you were walking through the water.
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Swiss TransportaEon Museum
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KineEc Cab Company
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KineEc Cab Company
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Paul Cesewski’s pedal-‐powered merry-‐go-‐round.
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KineEc Steam Works – what about a steam-‐powered ferris wheel?
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The Schweeb is a human-‐powered monorail track located in Rotorua, NZ.
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Google has invested $1M in the company for transit research and development.
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They are currently planning to build a transit Schweeb for public use.
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Using Art as an organizing principal would allow The Gateway to aXract major arts and innovaEon-‐based fesEvals and events.
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In Germany’s Ruhr Region The ExtraSchicht Night of Industrial Culture FesEval uses former industrial plants, acEve producEon faciliEes and decommissioned mines as venues.
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France’s Royale de Luxe open air theater company turns whole ciEes into stages with its mechanical marrionneXe performances.
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Nuit Blanche is an annual night-‐Eme temporary arts fesEval in Paris that welcomes 100’s of thousands of visitors each year…
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… and which is now being emulated by ciEes around the globe.
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A leader in the burgeoning “Maker Movement” Maker Faire last year drew 80K people to San Jose for its expansive demonstraEons of creaEve technology.
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The KineEc Sculpture Race in Arcata, CA is a 3-‐day people-‐powered land, sand, mud and water race, the Triathalon of the art world.
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This event in Sydney Australia brought people together for the world’s largest picnic…
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… and here in the states, over 1K people had brunch on the Hawthorne Bridge in as part of the Portland Bridge FesEval this past summer.
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Reach 100K+ people Rich and varied skill sets We are a bridge to the creaEve community
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