Watch The Grand Lighting For ?The Bay Lights,? The $8.8M Art Project Backed By Some Of Tech?s Biggest Names

The Golden Gate Bridge has been an artistic landmark since it was finished in 1937, even serving as a modern-day muse for tech industry visionaries such as Jack Dorsey. But its plainer stepsister, the six months older San Francisco Bay Bridge, is finally about to have its long-awaited moment in the spotlight. That's thanks to 'The Bay Lights,' a project kicking off this evening that will turn the Bay Bridge into the world's largest LED light sculpture every evening for the next two years. The project, headed up by technologist and artist Leo Villareal, will illuminate the 1.8 mile western span of the bridge with 25,000 LED lights individually programmed with unique algorithms to show a never-repeating display -- it'll be viewable from San Francisco and points north, but not to drivers crossing the bridge. The Bay Lights will be illuminated each night from dusk until 2:00am through 2015.

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