Joe Day

LED Astray, 2003-ongoing
Translux LED scroll
48 x 8 inches

Artist Statement
LED Astray is a text-based piece capitalizing on a “ticker-tape” LED sign installed in the entry deck of an up-slope residence, visible for both pedestrian and auto traffic. This sign has been messaging passers-by for over 15 years, but has taken on new resonance with the Covid-19 quarantine. For Drive-By-Art, the read-out will vary daily, with a thoughts, and perhaps some advice, on weathering quarantine times.

The inaugural quote, to be changed every couple days:
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
– Plato

deegan-day design llc:
The work of deegan-day design llc explores the merger of new design methods and advanced projection technologies. We are interested in both the practical and utopian extremes of architectural speculation, especially the myriad ways space and geometry orchestrate vision. Many designs map and reconfigure the fast-evolving ‘scopic economies’ of privacy, surveillance, exhibition and display. Current projects include a Media Center at Columbia College Hollywood and residential work throughout southern California.

Joe Day
LED Astray, 2003-ongoing
Translux LED scroll
48 x 8 inches

Joe Day
LED Astray, 2003-ongoing
Translux LED scroll
48 x 8 inches

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Joe Day
LED Astray, 2003-ongoing
Translux LED scroll
48 x 8 inches

Biography
Joe Day is a designer and architectural theorist in Los Angeles, where he leads deegan-day design and serves on the design and history/theory faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). His work explores the practical and utopian extremes of architectural speculation, especially the myriad ways space and geometry orchestrate vision.