YBCA Grand Lobby & Mission Street Plaza
FREE
See more at http://ybca.org/murmur-wall-opening
Commissioned by YBCA as a site-specific installation, Murmur Wall, designed by Future Cities Lab is a unique combination of sculpture, light and data collection along the wall at the main entrance to YBCA that will provide a gathering place for data voyeurs seeking out information about compelling issues and topics.It will accompany the Lab’s Lightswarm (2014), currently on view on the south façade of YBCA’s Grand Lobby.
What will the city around us be thinking, seeing, and reading in the near future? How will its desires and fears manifest? What will be most important? Offering a glimpse into the immediate future, the Murmur Wall is an artificially intelligent, anticipatory architecture that reveals what the city is whispering, thinking, and feeling. Words harvested from trending search engine results will momentarily be displayed on the wall inviting visitors to view, contemplate, discuss, and debate randomly selected phrases. Constructed out of a complex weave of steel, illuminated fiber optic rods, and digital displays, the Murmur Wall will create a playful interface for this civic stronghold to reflect and indulge the anxieties and desires of its occupants.
Read more about both public art installations at:
http://www.future-cities-lab.net/murmurwall
http://www.future-cities-lab.net/lightswarm
OPENING CELEBRATION SCHEDULE:
5–6:30 PM: Interactive Prototypes Show & Tell
Experts from Future Cities Lab will discuss and do a hands-on demonstration of the technologies, fabrication, and interaction design strategies they used to produce Murmur Wall and Lightswarm.
6:30–7 PM: Gallery Talk by Future Cities Lab
Jason Kelly Johnson, Nataly Gattegno, and collaborators at Future Cities Lab will discuss the concepts and details underlying their two installation art works installed at YBCA. Future Cities Lab is an experimental design studio, workshop and architectural think tank operating globally out of San Francisco, California.
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