Rainworks!
Thema: Rain-activated positive messages and art. Beschreibung: Rainworks are positive messages and art that appear when it rains. Their purpose: To make people smile on rainy days. We make rainworks to give people a reason to look forward to rainy days! It’s going to rain anyway. Why not do something fun with it? Each rainwork … Weiterlesen
On Broadway
Thema: A new visual metaphor for thinking about the city: a vertical stack of image and data layers. Beschreibung: The interactive installation On Broadway represents life in the 21st century city through a compilation of images and data collected along the 13 miles of Broadway that span Manhattan. The result is a new type of … Weiterlesen
Ghost Arroyos
Thema: A visual and oral exploration of San Francisco’s forgotten, invisible waterways on Market Street. Beschreibung: Every city has invisible histories embedded within its landscape. Up until the 19th century, ephemeral streams ran through nearly every valley in San Francisco, channeling rainwater to peripheral tidal estuaries. This project, „Ghost Arroyos“ seeks to reveal these forgotten … Weiterlesen
The Right to Flight
Thema: Urban observation. Beschreibung: This summer, artist and writer James Bridle is flying a balloon from the roof of Bold Tendencies, a multi-storey car park and art space in Peckham, South London. Attached to the balloon will be a variety of payloads, from darknet routers to aerial cameras, with the results of its experiments shared … Weiterlesen
Books about Town
Thema: Honouring London’s literary heritage. Beschreibung: The National Literacy Trust is working with Wild in Art to bring Books about Town to the streets of London in summer 2014. Trails of benches shaped as open books, decorated by professional illustrators and local artists, will appear for the public to enjoy. It will be a unique … Weiterlesen
Art Everywhere US
Thema: Images of great American art will be displayed as part of “the largest outdoor art show ever conceived.” Beschreibung: The Art Everywhere US campaign is a public celebration of great American art exhibited on thousands of out of home (OOH) advertising displays across America. OOH advertising displays include billboards, bus shelters, subway posters, and … Weiterlesen
In Praise of Air
Thema: A poster cleaning the air as well as extolling it. Beschreibung: The writing is on the wall for smog as the University of Sheffield unveils the world’s first air-cleansing poem, a new work by award-winning writer Simon Armitage. Simon, Professor of Poetry at the University, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Science Professor Tony Ryan, have collaborated … Weiterlesen
Park and Slide
Thema: Temporary urban transformation. Beschreibung: Enabling people to navigate the streets of their city in a new way, the slide is a simple architectural intervention and a playful response to the urban landscape. This massive urban slide transforms the street and asks people to take a fresh look at the potential of their city and … Weiterlesen
Project 24
Thema: Transforming a derelict, unused and unseen town centre location into a welcoming, vibrant, creative and pleasurable shared space. Beschreibung: Project 24 is a unique temporary art project on Bangor seafront. Project 24 is the new destination for Bangor – it is a creative hub for both residents and visitors. Project 24 includes 12 artist … Weiterlesen
Hy-Fi by The Living
Thema: A temporary urban landscape for the 2014 Warm Up summer music series in MoMA PS1’s outdoor courtyard. Beschreibung: Hy-Fi opens at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City in late June. Using biological technologies combined with cutting-edge computation and engineering to create new building materials, The Living will use a new method of bio-design, resulting … Weiterlesen
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