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The first Urban Echo event took place at dusk on Friday night, October 6th. Between 7:30 and 10:00pm, participants contributed well over 200 unique voice, text, picture and video messages. Here are some initial images to help you get a sense of the visual landscape.

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We have started promoting Urban Echo … here’s our poster. Here’s the project page.

Here’s a link to our abstract.

Urban Echo (6 Sept, 2006) (Quicktime Video: 0.6 mb)
Here’s a bit of video from the first showing of Urban Echo (the working title). Urban Echo is a large-scale publicly accessible video project that is projected onto large urban façades. For this showing, I was able to present it on the side of the beautiful Barker Center for Dance. Passersby (and those located elsewhere) are able to send text messages that appear on the screen in chronological order. Presently, I am not asking the public to respond to any particular question, but rather allowing them to have their say uncensored. One can imagine the unsavory bits that appeared later in the night as college students in cars drove by. But, despite its unresolved nature (in my mind at least) it received a very positive response. I plan to show it again several times during the next few weeks. Here’s a brief video from the opening and mini-promo-card. By the way — this piece is part of a series of artistic experiments leading up to our 2006 Artsmosis piece. Keep an eye out for that …

I just purchased airfare to San Jose for the ZeroOne/ISEA 2006 conference. I will be reporting on the trip as it progresses.

There are a number of events, meetings, parties and gatherings that I look forward to being a part of. More later …

Both Walking (2006) and 27 May, 2003 will be showing at the Fallout Urban Art Festival hosted by the Fallout Urban Art Center from 22 July, 2003 through the end of August. An opening reception will be held Friday night, July 21st, 2006.

We were informed that our grant proposal for ArtsMosis 2006 was accepted and funded. Now we just need to pull a team together to make it happen.

I am currently researching the benefits/problems with our original projection idea — particular the resusability of the structures and the long term disadvantages of projectors.