The Hello Wall: Twitter Controlled Public Art
We recently documented London’s Wasted Spaces, a group dedicated to turning abandoned and dilapidated properties into public displays of emerging arts. Their latest project moves public art it into the social arena with a Twitter based service.
Collaborating with large-scale installation artists Hellicar & Lewis, the duo have created an interactive installation for Wembley’s high road. Audience members are invited to tweet commands to @thehellowall. The subsequent directions will modulate the speed and appearance of various shapes.
The artists explain the concept further:
In visual terms, The Hello Wall will be a simple single colour background, with a foreground of simple shapes, in a physically realistic two dimensional simulation. Imagine a series of red circles on an orange background, bouncing off each other in zero gravity. The installation is designed to empower people, to allow them to have a creative input into the architectural space that they find themselves in – often without any sense of control or ownership.
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Lisa Baldini is a regular contributor to PSFK.com. As a student of Graham Harwood, Luciana Parisi, and Matthew Fuller, Lisa's interest in technology lies in how culture is changed from the bottom up through history, materiality, databases, user experience, and affective computing. A student of social media marketing, she sees how people try to engage consumers through technology and how much failure is at hand by misunderstanding the medium. A teacher at heart, she writes and curates in an effort to link the knowledge derived between the academic, art, and business worlds.
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| TOPICS: | Arts & Culture, Design & Architecture, Electronics & Gadgets |
| TAGS: | art installation, GRL, london art scene, street art, wasted spaces |
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