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- screen shot of birds (released)
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- camera view of the game design
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- view of the birds (released)
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- screen shot of the origami birds with Twitter profile images (daylight)
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- screen shot of the origami birds with Twitter profile images (evening)
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- rendering of the Lincoln Memorial model
Each of the origami cranes in the projection represents a person who has expressed “hope” through a recent Twitter posting. During the time that the installation is running, cranes are continuously created, floating around as the wind takes them. If nobody approaches, the cranes drift off and are replaced by new ones. When people are active near the installation there is the potential that they will be released and will fly off into the distance. The setting is loosely based on the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial, but not as it appears today. The inspiration for this piece was a summer of flooding in DC that made me think about all of the predictions about global warming.
Animation & code: Bryan Leister, format : HD, media: mac-mini, sensors, plasma screen; completed: 2009