Speed Shift

Speed Shift

“Speed Shift” challenges conventional perceptions of time and space. The work features two ribbons of white LEDs installed along the floor and ceiling. Based on computer-controlled changes in LED brightness, wave-like patterns of light emerge that run counter to each...
Poetry Spirals and Medallion

Poetry Spirals and Medallion

Two busy streets intersect; there’s a traffic light, turning cars, buses, bikes and pedestrians crossing the street. Most people are headed toward the bus center where they arrive just in time to catch their bus. If too late, they wait for another to arrive. Today...
Poetry in Motion

Poetry in Motion

Formerly known as MetroLines, the Poetry in Motion project continues to be sponsored by AIT, now in partnership with the Poetry Society of Americas Poetry in Motion Program. AIT also maintains regional partnerships by working with River Styx and SIUE souester to...

Hoi Polloi

Hoi Polloi, one of nine commissioned for MetroLink’s new extension, consists of large metal screens facing one another across the station’s long curving entry ramps. Perforations in the screens create an optical illusion, known as the moire effect, and...
Art Bus Fleet (*Retired)

Art Bus Fleet (*Retired)

** This piece is no longer on display. Please see our Retired Public Art Installations page for more information. AIT’s community art buses are ordinary fleet vehicles transformed into art on the move. They are designed by artists who paint them with the...