Silent Lights

Urban Matter Inc.

Funding Received: 2013
Brooklyn, NY
$33,000
Funding Period: 1 year and 5 months

Working in partnership with NYCDOT, Urban Matter Inc. will install Silent Lights, a series of six gates that light up sequentially based on the intensity of sound and vibrations from oncoming traffic, to a safer, inviting experience for pedestrian commuters as they traverse a loud, poorly lit and busy underpass at the intersection of Park Ave and Navy St in Downtown Brooklyn. 

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See below for recent updates, press, and events from this project

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By Valeria Bianco Update & Recent Win July marked the six months anniversary of Silent Lights. It was also exactly one year ago that we... Read More
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By Valeria Bianco Updates Last week our team organized a little field trip to visit our installation Silent Lights. It was over a month ago... Read More
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Silent Lights; photo by Shagun Singh Updates It has now been more than a month since Silent Lights was completed. We are pleased to say... Read More
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Silent Lights; photo by Rick Lin Updates We are pleased to announce that our first update for 2014 involves the completion of our project! On... Read More
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Silent Lights goes up on site on November 15th; photo by Shagun Singh Updates The last month has been the most intense month of the... Read More
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Community Board 2 meeting, introducing Silent Lights to the Community; photo by Shagun Singh Updates November is sure shaping up to be a busy month... Read More
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Silent Lights – Structure of one gate; photo by Rick Lin Updates This past month our team has been working on the many technical details... Read More
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Silent Lights – Section of installation. Drawing by 52 Studios. Update As we continued working towards installing Silent Lights, we visited the new site on... Read More
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Update The past month saw us working together with the Urban Arts Department of the NYCDOT to move to a new site in Brooklyn for... Read More
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Update During this past month our team has coordinated with our metal fabricator to build the structures of the first three gates of our installation... Read More
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Update These past two months, we have been working closely with the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) and our local fabricator Serett Metalworks bringing us... Read More