Documentation from Transit/Stasis
Here are installation photos of Transversing the Bay from the Transit/Stasis exhibition from April 2011
From MacArthur
Most of the above ground BART stations are placed alongside or in the middle of the freeways. Here are some relaxing sounds from the MacArthur platform
Ashby Jammin’
Drum Circle at Ashby Flea Market Every weekend that the Flea Market at Ashby BART is open, a group of musicians is there, near the bike racks, jamming away from early morning into the late afternoon. It just wouldn’t be Berkeley without a drum circle. [display_podcast]
A Brief History of Bay Area Rapid Transit
The history of the Bay Area Regional Transit (BART) system begins immediately following the end of World War II. In 1947 military officials sent a memo suggesting the state build a tunnel that went under the Bay. By 1951 the state legislature commissioned research into ways of relieving congestion on the Bay area roadways and...
Regional Explorations
Transversing the Bay is a study of the San Francisco Bay Area that utilizes mass transit systems, particularly the Bay Area Rapid Transit system and local ferries. By framing the movements of people and the spatial and affective domains created by these systems, our aim was the documentation and distillation of the emotional resonances and...