Creative Capital

Marek Walczak, Martin Wattenberg Noplace

Discipline
Emerging Fields
Medium
Digital Art
Subject

Environment

Technology
State
New York
Year
2006
Status
Completed

Description

Noplace is an interactive installation and website that aggregates utopias into a shared vision of paradise. The artists have developed software that takes data, images and text from individuals via the web and uses these feeds to create virtual structures. These structures expand as utopias are added to the project. In the final installation, projected shadows on the gallery walls represent the architecture that’s evolved from the data, creating a physical browser that viewers can manipulate and transform with a wave of their hands.

Marek Walczak

Marek Walczak is an artist and architect who investigates the ways people participate in physical and virtual spaces. His projects include Apartment a…
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Martin Wattenberg

Martin Wattenberg’s work centers on the theme of making the invisible visible. Past projects include The Shape of Song, Third Person, The Whitney Mu…
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Project Updates

2008: The computer vision interface portion of Noplace is removed
2008: Noplace premieres as part of the Synthetic Times exhibition at the National Art Museum of Beijing
2008: The web component of Noplace premieres at Tate Online