"With the advent of the mobile telephone, telephone booths lie unused.
We rediscover this glass cage transformed into an aquarium, full of exotically coloured fish; an invitation to escape and travel."
Posted by Steve Dietz on December 23, 2007 7:58 PM
Ken Lum'sPi
is a permanent installation, which uses LEDs behind half-mirrors in an underground passage beneath Karlsplatz in Vienna to "mix" reflections of passers by with various factoids such as the number of malnourished children in the world, people killed or maimed in landmines since January 1, and the number of days until Chernobyl is considered safe for human habitation.
Roboat is a new research project designed for "protests on or near aqueous points of interest." Perhaps the M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I during the RNC and the UnConvention?
Posted by Steve Dietz on December 23, 2007 12:21 AM
The exterior of the Uniqa Tower in Vienna has been equipped with a LED-grid, a
wide-meshed net of picture elements capable of receiving video-data, witch
are fitted into the gaps of the building's facade. An interplay between the
architecture and the electronic data feed changing over time, evolves: The
building does not simply serve as a screen or message-board, as is
commonly the case with electronic billboards, but becomes an integral part of the urban landscape as abstract, constantly modulating architectural form. At first, the
electronic data corresponds to the architectural structure of the tower, but
during the course of its choreography, repeatedly detaches itself from the
concrete shape of the building, establishing new spaces which dynamically
interweave. Ever new virtual layers are thus added to the building. Mader Stublic Wiermann
Posted by Steve Dietz on December 21, 2007 5:28 PM
Since at least 1992, Jon Winet with collaborator Margaret Crane and others has produced a major work around the U.S. Presidential elections. In 1992 they created a trio of installations: The First Day of the Rest of Our Lives, The Voting Booth, and The Best Years of Our Lives.
In 2000, Winet and Crane were commissioned by the Walker Art Center and Intermedia Arts with support from the McKnight Foundation to produce Democracy-The Last Campaign.
Winet and team recently announced the launch of their latest quadrennial project, The Electoral College (TEC), writing on November 4:
"We're delighted to announce the launch of the web site for "The Electoral College." Over the next year, the project will focus on the 2008 presidential elections in the United States. The Electoral College is a hybrid new media art|journalism project that recognizes the unique moment in history of this election, and the opportunities and challenges presented for democratic, civic engagement.
"The web site is imagined as a headquarters from which to view the various parts of the project.Over the next year, we'll roll out a number of project elements. Click on the arrows to view initial projects—and preview some in the works."
What would campaign coverage be without The Picture Show, which we hope to feature as part of the coverage of The UnConvention during the Republican National Convention in the Twin Cities? And if the alternatives of the TEC website are not enough for you, Mac users can dowload a
TEC widget, a hypertext widget that focuses on the issues and candidates of the Iowa Caucuses. A cross-platform version is in production, but in the meantime, you can also get TEC via SMS.
