In 2020, IAA collaborated with Oakland Art Murmur and artist Sally Weber to activate storefronts that had been emptied during the COVID pandemic.

Flux” can be understood as a light installation in which 28 laser pendulums hang above . . . two sand fields . . . swaying, gyrating, illuminating the sand, while leaving traces of their erratic paths. The interactions of the pendulums as they pass, twist and occasionally collide, reflect the energy inherent in nature on all levels, all scales.

- Singh, G., "Alchemical Transformation,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Application

Read the East Bay Express article on the Storefronts Initiative