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Day for Night_
Date 6th June
Tags audio, video, exhibition, installation, USA, event, international
“Day for Night” is a public arts project commissioned by the city of San Jose, California and planned in conjunction with the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Festival of Art on the Edge. The temporary architectural environment operates on the street life of downtown by inverting relations between time and place, local and global.
The installation is hosted downtown within a vacant retail space. From this host space, it meets the street with an inflatable structure whose skin is surrounded by sensors that responds to visitors’ presence with a live audio-video feed. This feed is sent constantly from sources in various time zones removed from San Jose, perpetually dislocating visitors, giving a midday opportunity to occupy midnight and vice-versa; but at the price of leaving San Jose. The feeds include pubs, arts centres and public places, including Melbourne's Horse Bazaar.
Together, these elements make up an interior space that synchronizes itself with conditions from around the planet. We live with this sort of experience ever more casually today, but rarely examine its consequences or delights. What’s gained and lost? What do we not yet take advantage of? How do we inhabit architecture and cities differently from before?
Architecturally, Day for Night considers our time and place against the world surface as it has evolved since Virilio’s prophetic essay. Fabricated digitally, the project also revisits a local history (Ant Farm) of inflatable structures, how they were made, and the social scenarios that they fostered.
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