AWGTHTGTWTA by Tony Oursler (Are We Going to Have to Go Through with This Again?)
Video projection currently on display until November 2, 2008
Location: The Fulton Houses Playground, 17th Street between 9th & 10th Aves
open-PLAYER software has implemented the realtime scrolling SMS text message display for the outdoors public art installation / video AWGTHTGTWTA by Tony Oursler currently on display in The Fulton Houses Playground.
AWGTHTGTWTA is inspired by the gaming habits of contemporary kids. The artist worked with teens from Liberty High School and Clinton Middle School. The installation focuses on linking the public space of the playground with the children’s ideal fantasy worlds, compulsive online gaming, improvisational singing on youtube, and chanting of a youth chorus. The audience is asked to connect with the installation by sending text messages that become part of the work as subtitles. The artist has also written text to be performed by the chorus that is edited with other found footage from youtube. The final element of the installation is footage of students performing readings from a creative writing project that describes their images of the future and ideal worlds. This installation explores the link between the coding of games and the simultaneously productive and destructive use of creative energy.
For more information please visit http://www.moreart.org/
