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Riding modern art in public places

It comes as no surprise that skaters and others use public art in many different ways. Just as public art itself can be a more and less  genteel territorialization of space. The suite of photographs, "Riding Modern Art," by Raphael Zarka at designboom based on an upcoming exhibition at the French Cultural Center in Milan,…

Artists’ libraries (recent)

"Comprised of approximately 7,700 titles from the artist's personal collection, the Library was opened to the public by Anton Vidokle in November 2005 as a storefront reading room at e-flux, on Ludlow Street in New York City. It has since traveled to Frankfurter Kunstverein; MuHKA, Antwerp; unitednationsplaza, Berlin; Institut National d'histoire de l'Art, Paris; the…

Congratulations!

Tiredly reading the newspaper this morning, scanning the list of 2009 MacArthur Fellows, jolted awake by the last listing: Camille Utterback. OMG!! Here is her official MacArthur profile along with some unofficial photos of Camille in action on projects I have worked with her on. Camille Utterback is an artist who uses digital technologies to…

Success!

Over the past week, Camille Utterback has been installing her as-yet-untitled (suggestions?) interactive sculptural artwork for the lobby of the Showplace Theaters in The West End, St. Louis Park, MN. It's all working! There are 6 tubes with LED lights hanging over the staircase in the lobby of the theater. The LEDs react to people…

Dry run with funnoodles

On Monday, Camille used some "funnoodles" to mock up final location of her interactive lighting installation in the theater at the new West End development. More pictures here. Today they install the real thing.

Installing at West End

Camille Utterback begins installation of her West End project today. I'm excited to go visit and see the installation. They plan to hang some styrofoam pool "funnoodles" as a mockup to lock in the column heights/locations. Here's a link to a set of photos from a site visit last week checking out the wood railing…

West End interactive art project

Back in April, Forecast Public Art helped organize an invitational competition for two public art projects at the West End complex in St. Louis Park, MN. Duke Realty is redeveloping approximately 40 acres at the southwest corner of I-394 & Highway 100. The $400 million mixed-use project is called “The West End”. The first phase…