OPEN AIR Premier Set For Thursday, September 20 At 7:30 P.M.
OPEN AIR Premier Set For Thursday, September 20 At 7:30 P.M.
OPEN AIR Premier Set For Thursday, September 20 At 7:30 P.M.
“Open Air” is an interactive public art installation commissioned by the Association for Public Art and created by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Open Air will be running nightly from September 20 to October 14. The coolest part of OPEN AIR is that a free mobile app developed by Lozano-Hemmer’s studio allows participants’ voices and GPS positions to control 24 powerful robotic searchlights located on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway which then create three-dimensional “light sculptures.” The OPEN AIR opening night celebration will occur on September 20, 2012 from 7:30pm-11:00pm and is free to attend and will include a local food trucks, a countdown and a lighting ceremony, and presentations by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and others.
Open Air Details:
OPEN AIR by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
September 20 – October 14, 2012
Nightly from 8:00pm – 11:00pm
Located on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway (between 21st and 24th Streets)
Here’s the description from the Association For Public Art Website:
Open Air is the world premiere of an interactive public art project commissioned by the Association for Public Art and created by Mexican-Canadian media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The OPEN AIR project combines public art with mobile technology to create a spectacular participatory experience that will illuminate the night sky over the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Created specifically for Philadelphia, the project is designed for personal contribution. Using a free mobile app developed by Lozano-Hemmer’s studio, participants’ voices and GPS positions will control 24 powerful robotic searchlights placed along a half-mile section of the Parkway – creating giant three-dimensional “light sculptures.” A computer program will automatically analyze Open Air app users’ GPS positions and voices for frequency, intonation, and volume and will convert these characteristics into searchlight formations in the sky. The OPEN AIR lights will react, both in brightness and position, to each participant’s voice and words as they are being spoken. Forming a canopy of light over the city, the project will be seen from up to 10 miles away. Tens of thousands of individuals will be able to participate during the OPEN AIR project’s duration, and hundreds of thousands more will experience the project as viewers. The OPEN AIR app will be available soon in iTunes.
Association For Public Art
The Association for Public Art (formerly the Fairmount Park Art Association) is the nation’s first private, nonprofit organization dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning. Founded in 1872, the Association commissions, preserves, promotes and interprets public art in Philadelphia.
For more information check out the Open Air website.
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