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“Healing Tool” is a site-specific installation and visual realignment by media artist Brian Kane.

As part of his ongoing series “Art for Commuters”, this installation introduces a poetically enhanced digital image on a giant billboard in order to restore and realign the surrounding landscape.

Presented from June 28 to July 26 along interstate highways I-93 and I-95, this work translates Brian Kane’s ongoing effort to simulate photoshop effects in the real world.

For more info please contact Luise Kaunert

Photography: Nate Wieselquist and Simone Schiess. Design consultant: Joanne Kaliontzis

Part of an ongoing collaboration with Michael Oatman

HD Video: Terry Golob
Music: Crack’d Beauty by Aerostatic http://aerostaticmusic.com

Disc sculpture: Gardner Post
App development: Jose Rojas
Photography: Till Krautkraemer

Special thanks to everyone who came out for the party and everyone that helped make this happen!

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7/11/09

These images are from 3 nights of outdoor projection on the museum.

7th International Conference on Art and Technology, October 1st – 12th, 2008, Museu Nacional do Complexo Cultural da Republica, Brasilia, Brazil

I’ll be exhibiting some new video work and presenting:

Open Source Art: Proposals for Hyper-Collaborative Artworks in a Connected World

The internet, low cost cell phones, cheap laptops, and readily available electronic parts now allow giant groups of people, dispersed across the planet, to team up and create massive events.

How can we harness the power of these technologies to create meaningful art pieces? What are the cultural barriers which need to be crossed in order to get millions of people to co-operate with each other to create something together? How can a diverse and massive group of people come to a consensus on what the piece should be, and who, if anyone, should claim ownership?

The open source movement has a proven record of success in the software field, and has been instrumental to helping the growth of the internet. In this presentation, I will discuss a proposal for applying open source methodology to create the worlds largest sculpture, the Very Large Display (VLD), and the human and technological challenges facing such a large scale collaborative project.

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I look forward to a fantastic symposium and exhibition. Thanks in to Tania Fraga and everyone at Universidade de Brasilia and Museu Nacional do Complexo Cultual da Republica for helping to put this event together.

Special thanks to Chico MacMurtrie, Sven Travis of Parsons The New School of Design, the National Art Museum of China and the organizers of the Synthetic Times exhibition.

I was honored to participate in the exhibition, and delighted to meet so many incredible artists, including Verdensteatret, Kurt Hentschläger, f18 institute, Edwin van der Heide, Blendid, Herwig Weiser, and David Rokeby.

For more information on 16 Birds, see this page on the Amorphic website and this page from an earlier exhibition in New York City.