Re: [Ada_list] Media art and the city?

Hi Zita and ADA's.

Some of Lettingspace's series of works might fit your interest - and more
specifically, the project I did with them last year - Market Testament -
which was an installation/intervention that broke into the inner
architecture of a Wellington office block and ran the building's lighting
system via a data feed conversion of the day's stock market activity.

Interestingly to me the work appropriated the building's architecture
without changing its form - from the outside the building might appear to
be untouched, but it was being driven by a unique agency - that of stock
market changes. In the sense of public space - I find it interesting that
the private/public boundary is blurred - this private space broadcasts
publicly by its visibility, but the broadcast itself is hermetically sealed
within the building's insulating glass walls. In a way both
inviting/teasing (the curtains are left undrawn) and yet gated.

Letting Space commissioned an essay by Martin Patrick:
http://www.lettingspace.org.nz/essay-market-testament/

Pics here:
http://www.lettingspace.org.nz/images-the-market-testament/the-market-testament/9504651

cheers,
Colin

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