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“I in the Sky Art” Public Art Installation Transforms Times Square Posted by Nicole Hughes on March 10, 2008 at 12:02 am

Raul Vincent Enriquez, a Brooklyn based-artist, has set into motion his most recent installation, “I in the Sky,” in NYC’s Times Square. Eye contact, says Enriquez, is the most important concept he is trying to convey with the exhibition. Whether an invitation to a fight or a signal of empathy, it is one of the most fascinating characteristics that make us distinctly human. Good Magazine explains how the exhibition works below:

Forty-eight stories above Times Square, short video portraits”the end-result of a subject’s staring into a camera in the nearby chashama gallery for 30 seconds while 30 photographs are produced”are projected onto a towering 2,500 sq. ft. LED screen. Having been manipulated by computers and animators, the resulting images take on an odd, flickering flip-book quality.

The aim of the project is to create and display 10,000 unique portraits over the next seven weeks. If you’re in the NYC area, by sharing a side of your own humanity with others and participating in Enriquez’s public art project. There is an open casting call from 12pm to 8pm, Thursday through Saturday at 112 W. 44th Street in Manhattan at the Chashama Gallery.

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CATEGORIES:  Culture, Global Health, Human Rights


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Posted by Juliana on March 11, 2008 at 12:43 am

Hello! Actually “I in the Sky” has no “casting call.” Anyone may participate.

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