public art
Monday, January 30th, 2012
In a collaboration of New American Public Art and goodgood, I designed, built, and installed an interactive public art piece on the Rose Kennedy Greenway alongside Karen, Ben, Dan, Mattie, and Namita.
The piece consists of three analog projectors, a sculptural housing, and an LED video animation. The opening reception was on January 12th, 2012, and featured modern dancer Yuka Takahashi.
We took the opportunity to introduce a work of interactivity to a public space in Boston, exploring themes of play and creativity, while unifying the work with the goals of the Greenway and the Boston Harbor Islands.
Photos by Matthew Shanley.
Support for the materials for the work was provided by the Rose Kennedy Greenway. The Harbor Islands graciously provided the pavilion and the LED screens, which were integrated with the assistance of Boston Cyberarts and the Pavilion.
The work shows from January 2012 to mid March 2012, and is a block from the Aquarium T stop.
See associated posts with Lighthouse, including coverage by the Boston Dig, and a press release.
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on January 30th, 2012 under Blog, Projects.
Tags: goodgood, installation, lighthouse, new american public art, projection, public art, rose kennedy greenway, screen
Friday, January 13th, 2012
The Boston Dig wrote up an article on the opening for Lighthouse. They got a pic of us with the screen part of the piece:
Lighthouse is an interactive public art piece on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. It is up for the next three months. Pictured here are the collaborators for the piece: Matthew Shanley, Karen Stein, Dan Sternof Beyer, Ben Gaydos and I. Namita Dharia also helped design and build the piece, but is currently researching in India. We also had a dancer, Yuka Takahashi, which was incredible.
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on January 13th, 2012 under Blog.
Tags: coverage, lighthouse, new american public art, opening, public art, rose kennedy greenway
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
For the last few months I have designed and built a public art piece as a collaboration between goodgood and New American Public Art. The opening will be this Thursday from 6-8pm at the location of the piece. It’s by the Aquarium T stop. The piece is an accomplishment in the direction of introducing interactive art experiences in the public space.
Press Release:
LIGHTHOUSE : An interactive analogue projection installation.
goodgood Design in collaboration with New American Public Art presents LIGHTHOUSE, located at the Boston Harbor Island Alliance pavilion on the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
The opening ceremony begins at 6pm on Thursday, January 12th. It will include a brief presentations by the artists and by Nancy Brennan, Executive Director of the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, as well as a 15 minute dance performance by Yuka Takahashi that showcases the interactive quality of the piece. Sel de la Terre will be serving free warm beverages. Everyone is invited to an after party at Waterline Bar in the Marriott-Long Wharf hotel.
The installation uses three overlapping analogue projections to create a simple interactive light scape. The work’s form and materials echo the flow of the existing architecture and allude to old canvas ship sales and whale bones. These forms are reflected in the projected images as well as the generative animations shown on the 2 large video screens.
goodgood is a design studio based in Boston’s Fort Point. They specialize in custom design solutions for businesses and the private sector. With a strong focus on community, public art is also a passion for the goodgood team. They have collaborated with the Rose Kennedy Greenway in past years.
New American Public Art is a collaborative of artists, programers, engineers and community groups with the goal of developing interactive, responsive, and beautiful public art.
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on January 8th, 2012 under Blog.
Tags: goodgood, installation, lighthouse, new american public art, opening, public art, rose kennedy greenway, sculpture
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
micro-interactive art: interactions that can be made smaller, and easily placed around a city as public art
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on September 29th, 2011 under Idea Box.
Tags: interactive art, public art
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Yesterday there was a great session of short presentations by new media artists in the Boston area, centered around exploring public art. The event was hosted by the New England Foundation for the Arts. The first talk described a few projects that were based online, inspiring a question of whether or not it was public art- it wasn’t outside. A brief debate followed regarding the public-ness of the work which was interesting- with people on both sides. This sort of framed the evening for the rest of the talks.
All of the projects were pretty interesting. But what was highlighted to me- when I thought of my own views of public art and new media technology- was that there are great strides that still need to be made with introducing new media technology into public space as art. What I mean is that there are a ton of new technologies that are highly interactive, and allow for communications all around the world- how can these be included in the public? Few of the projects, I can only really think of a couple, involved something I could find outside in a city and physically interact with. That is important to me.
As one of the artists described- he is interested in how art can affect the public discourse. Similarly I am interested in how art outside can widen public space- how it can become a platform for serendipitous encounters, and for healthy interactions with others. Art can be something that not only creates meaning, but can help support and grow a community. This is a major function of public space, an it can be supported through art.
I am glad the session was organized. It gave a glance of a variety of technologies and ideas that are being explored around public art. But most of all, it was very encouraging.
For a future session, I look forward to seeing more details on the political negotiation involved in formally introducing technologies to public space. Now with NAPA we are in the process with a work for this coming winter, and it is not an easy process. Knowing how other artists achieved successes will be valuable information.
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on September 27th, 2011 under Blog.
Tags: napa, nefa, new media, public art
Monday, March 28th, 2011
I am part of a public artist collective who will be presenting a project idea, ‘Musical Intersection’, for review at the New England Foundation for the Arts tonight.
The submitted idea is for The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts’ Dundalk Avenue Streetscape Project. In short, the idea is to build an interactive musical installation with the surrounding community.
The NEFA session is part of a public art discussion series. Selected submissions will be openly reviewed to reveal insights about the public art review process.
This fourth discussion series will present a rare window into the public art panel review process. Come learn how and why an application advances to the final round; hear the kinds of questions and conversations panelists have with one another; ask a few of your own; and pick up some tips and tricks to employ in response to the next RFQ that comes your way.
The event will be free, from 5:30 to 7:30, at the New England Foundations for the Arts: 145 Tremont Street, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02111.
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on March 28th, 2011 under Blog.
Tags: 2011, baltimore, collective, nefa, new england foundation for the arts, public art
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
The piece began construction on Thursday December 13th 2007 and was worked on each night until Monday, December 17th. The piece was be taken down soon after, and no part of it was permanent. The following documentation contains the ideas preceding its development and then documentation of its growth.
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on December 10th, 2009 under Projects, trees inter twine.
Tags: 2007, A Thousand Plateaus, barthes, DC, Deleuze, growth, Guattarri, installation, interaction, milieu, nattiez, network, non-hierarchy, public art, rhizome, sculpture, temporality and narrative in new media, trees, twine
