Re: [Ada_list] Media art and the city?

What is interesting is that this highly visible display of wealth transfer
(stockmarket reports, or the art work itself) is happening at a
corporate/private level, (increasingly so with the worldwide privatisation
of state assets) yet the fortunes of the public are increasingly dependent
on this very system they are being excluded from.

cheers,
Colin

On 24 May 2012 10:21, colin hodson <colinhodson@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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