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Prospect Park Rose Garden Brooklyn, New York 2017
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A Pinwheel Paradise
Prospect Park Rose Garden Brooklyn, New York 2017
The Inside Out action is a way to thank peacekeepers, past and present, for their service and sacrifice.
As we commemorate UN Peacekeeping's 75th anniversary, we invite you to join us for an Inside Out action at 11am EST on 26 May in Times Squar
Add your voice to the call for peace by having your portrait taken and added to the collection.
United Nations Peacekeeping marked its 75th anniversary in a giant exhibition on New York’s Times Square. The Inside Out project featured bl
The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers has been commemorated annually on 29 May, in line with a UN General Assembly resolution adopted in 2002. The date marks the start of the first UN peacekeeping mission, the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), in Palestine in 1948.
The theme of the 75th anniversary of UN Peacekeeping is ‘Peace begins with me’, which recognizes the service and sacrifice of blue helmets, past and present. It also pays tribute to the resilience of the communities they serve, who continue to strive for peace despite many obstacles.
The annual ceremony marking the Day was held on Thursday at UN Headquarters in New York, where the Secretary-General noted that peacekeepers “are increasingly working in places where there is no peace to keep.”
The following day, the city played host to an interactive art installation in Times Square celebrating peacekeepers and all those who work together to build and maintain peace across the world, including community members and local influencers in places where UN missions operate.
Is Interactive Art the Wave of the Future?
Technology is transforming everything from marketing to museums. Bringing interactive narratives that immerse and encourage public participation.
With these forays into the mixture of tech and art, today’s artists are pushing to other creative boundaries. For this reason, it allows artists to be more expressive and relatable art.
Interactive art is an art that is controlled or manipulated by viewers or environment. It is increasing in popularity across the nation and the globe.
Interactive Art Informs and Delights
The Living Light exhibit in Seoul, South Korea allows people to control the exhibit by texting messages to it. As a matter of fact, it also provides real-time information about the air quality in the surrounding neighborhoods.
As air quality improves, a section lights up, giving neighborhoods a fun way to work on improvements while tracking progress and enjoying the installation.
This is just an example of the many ways interactive technology and art provides learning, improvement, interaction, and creativity in one beautiful package.
Sensity
An installation at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London uses real-time data from the museum’s own environment. This is the museum’s source to create works of art from the humidity, motion, light, vibrations, and more.
Just the act of entering the museum and observing the installation will cause fluctuations in the art.
And that’s part of the popularity of interactive art. The fact that observers can play a part in the art’s changing form or function.
Interactive art is drawing crowds
In part, due to its strong potential for sharing on social media and it’s “fun house” flair.
And that, of course, is a good thing.
More people being drawn to, and involved in the creative endeavor. They bring inspiration and imagination to the masses, not just to those well-off enough to afford art for their homes.
Some installations are so popular that people wait in long lines for hours, just for the experience of interacting with an exhibit.
And while these kinds of exhibits comprise a phenomenal new way for artistic ideas to be shared, they don’t preclude other, more traditional, art forms from capturing the attention and admiration they’ve always drawn.
In fact, some critics find interactive art to rely on sensationalism rather than a true art experience, while others claim there’s no “correct” way to view art.
No matter what the opinion, interactive art is here to stay.
An interactive art installation at the Canadian Film Centre's annual gala and auction at the Carlu in February 2012. Visitors are mapped into the constellations using Kinect technology.
CLOUD PINK by Everyware
Using touch to interact with video media that is projected onto a giant fabric screen.
Software used: Processing, GLSL
Superblue: "Knitting Nancy" made for the London Festival of Architecture (2010)
" inspired by the traditional knitting toy, the team created a giant version of the trinket and encouraged everyone to weave together a never-ending string of seating arrangements. The resulting installation and space reflects the theme of the festival of the festival, "the welcoming city", by engaging the public together in a common activity..."
Link: http://lamotif.com/author/sydned/page/14/
lost in a forest of living glass
Feel-O-Meter, A Giant Face That Reflects the Mood of a City