March 7th, Saturday night at the Chelsea Art Museum. Actors in the windows paired with SMS created dialogue sent from passersby in the street. NYPD swung by to check it out, they are huge fans.
Performances by Anna Fikhman, Ellpetha Tsivicos, Noah Miller, John Zurek.
Special Thanks: Sam Bardaouil, Till Felrath, Gemma Lumley, Nicollette Ramirez, Louisa St. Pierre
The video is put to the song ‘Skeleton’ by the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s.
‘The Only Certainty, Death and TXT’s’ Interactive Installation commissioned for The Leonardo for the Body Worlds exhibit in SLC. It ran from from October 08 - January 09. While people were working through the lines to the exhibit they could pass time by making a 30 foot projection of a skeleton speak by text messaging in the dialogue. The skeleton animates into different poses when it receives a text.
Special Thanks: Kersten Swinyard, Dennis Evans, and Alexandra Hesse
…and the only reason we pulled this off were the countless volunteers who dragged SMS after SMS to the “skeleton” folder for 4 months!
Skeleton animation done by Miguel Sanchez
The Only Certainty, Death and TXT’s from paul notzold on Vimeo.
For the past ten days my friend Soren Sorensen and I criss-crossed Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and PA working for the Obama Campaign ground game… I’m happy to say we had a clean sweep of the states we visited, though Indiana was a toughy. Here are some of the results from the interactive projections we put up in the cities we swung through. Participants were invited to text message up to the display, answering the question “I’m Voting Because…” The content was sent in from people on the street showing there support for new possibility.
Along our trip we were called faggots, socialists, communists, terrorists, and witnessed Obama stickers being torn off of cars at rest stops. We met all the negativity with polite smiles and recording equipment. BUT this is not par for the course, we were greeted with thank you’s, cheering and positive support from A LOT of wonderful people. We spent Halloween on the Ohio State University where the local campaign office created a dance party in the streets. People were excited out here, and there was electicity in the air.
More updates and a thorough recap of the trip coming soon. Some photos below:
From State College Pennsylvania… Slightly pre-mature on Monday night, but more than appropriate now!!
Pittsburgh, PA:
Cleveland, OH:
Columbus, OH. OSU Campus:
Cincinnati, OH:
Athens, OH:
Columbus, OH:
East Lansing, MI. MSU Campus:
Indianapolis, IN:
Bloomington, IN:
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On the road for Obama… October 25th - November 3rd
DUE TO CAMPAIGN RESTRICTIONS I WILL HAVE ALL THE DOCUMENTATION FROM THIS TRIP UP ON WEDS NOV 5th.
The interactive projection battleground tour schedule is as follows… Bloomington IN 25th, Indianapolis IN 26th, East Lansing MI 27th, Kent OH 28th, Athens OH 29th, Cincinnati OH 30th, Columbus 31st, Cleveland 1st, Pittsburgh 2nd, State College PA 3rd…
I was invited over to Brussels by the wonderful folks at Square to celebrate the year before opening their meeting center with some interactive projecting. The nights before the scheduled party I brought my bicycle cart and went out on the town. With help from local Joris De Beer, we set up a projection in front of the EU parliament. Pictures from parliament projecting and the party below.
This is text message enabled freestyle rap. The story telling ability of freestyle rap fed with user generated content via text messaging allows those that are not so rhyme inclined to hand over their ideas to those that are more lyrically enabled. The live release was at BLVD in Manhattan. An audience text messages in the content that they want the MC’s to freestyle from. The messages are fed to the MC’s via a monitor on the stage, the messages are also projected large behind the rhymers fo rthe audience to see. This ain’t easy people, the MC’s have no idea what’s coming next. MC’s involved: NYC aka Never Yet Contested, Jah-C, Folk Lore, and The 1SHANTI. DJ - KUNAL MERCHANT.
The Next performance is Thursday October 9th. 10 pm at Public Assembly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Putting up speech bubbles in Calgary. Had a great time working with Truck, Ideal, and the New Gallery. Check out the new fast attack bike cart that I developed with Aaron Wieler. It unfolds to create a mobile projection platform, and then packs in on itself for check in at the airport. Perfect for that jet setting lifestyle.
TXTual Healing July 19, 2008.
… BRAND NEW !!! SMS enabled freestyle rap! Sneak Preview from my studio!
Working with The 1shanti, we gathered together some of New Yorks finest MC’s to take your input live on the fly and kick it out in their voice. MC’s are fed a text message then they freestyle, then they are fed another message and so on, eventually handing off the mic to another MC keeping the flow fresh. Think about it, how much would McCain love to deliver his speeches with Obama’s charisma and voice. Well come see your message dropped on the crowd in the voice of some of NYC’s bravest MC’s.
This is just the beginning! Come check out the FIRST LIVE event at BLVD on Friday July 25th, 10 pm.
I was invited to London by Channel 4 to get people texting about street crime in support for their series Disarming Britain. Besides the interactive projections I brought in film maker Shola Amoo to help capture some of the conversations happening in the streets about crime. Check out Shola’s piece on knife crime. It all went down June 25-26 2008. Special thanks to Profero for putting this together.
View larger format video here.
I was invited by the Brooklyn Museum to update some Utagawa prints with some interactive speech bubbles. I set up my new urban projection cart in the lobby of the museum and projected the prints with an interactive make over during the Museum’s First Saturday event. Ben Roth helped work the install.
Special thanks to Brklyn Muse Crew: Traslin Ong, Erin Silverstein, Shelley Bernstein, and Bobby Nardi.
video and music by Bobby Nardi…
Went out projecting with the crew from Mike Judge’s The Animation Show. We started off with an interactive american flag on the University of Texas’ campus. The piece was going well when a few fellows wrote the ‘n’ word along with some asian slurs. The UT police proceeded to shut the event down, I don’t blame them. When given the chance to write something spontaneous and anonymous, you are going to write the ‘n’ word? I’m not surprised, since I see a lot of ’silliness,’ but I wonder what’s going through someone’s mind to decide to write that. On the other side, given today’s politics, seeing the ‘n’ word being said by the american flag is somewhat appropriate and telling. But I don’t think the fellas that sent in the hate were trying to comment on societal belief’s. We then biked down to The Alamo theater and put up some more speech bubbles. Special thanks to Robert and Rebecca from the animation show and Sheldon and Bridget along for the ride.
