Friday, June 17, 2005
don't eat the yellow arrow.
have y'all heard of yellowarrow.net? i haven't quite read up about it enough to come to any conclusions as to its relative awesomeness, but it seems kinda worth checking out. here's a little more information about it:
When does an object become art? What makes a landmark? Who says what counts?
Yellow Arrow™ is the global public art project of local experiences. It creates an open and interactive forum for people to leave and discover messages on location that point out what counts.
Participants place arrows to draw attention to different locations and objects - a favorite view of the city, an odd fi re hydrant, the local bar. By sending a text-message (SMS) from a mobile phone to the Yellow Arrow number beginning with the arrow's unique code, Yellow Arrow authors essentially save a thought on the spot where they place their sticker. Messages range from short poetic fragments to personal stories to game-like prompts to action. When another person encounters the Yellow Arrow, he or she sends its code to the Yellow Arrow number and immediately receives the message of that arrow on their mobile phone. The website YellowArrow.net extends this location-based exchange, by allowing participants to annotate their arrows with photos and maps in the online gallery of Yellow Arrows placed throughout the world.(...)
By collecting and sharing these spaces of personal signifi cance, Yellow Arrow allows the collaborative creation of a subjective atlas - a dynamic M.A.A.P. (Massively Authored Artistic Project) - that expresses the unique characteristics, personal histories, and hidden secrets that live within our everyday spaces. In a time of increasing polarization, it is our hope that the project facilitates movements of locally-driven and globally-interlinked communities to promote unity, toleration, creativity and a progressive culture. Yellow Arrow has established a broad network of global partnerships with organizations in Denmark, Germany, Australia, Brazil and the UK.(...)
Yellow Arrow first emerged at the Glowlab psy.geo.Conflux urban art festival on the Lower East Side of New York in May 2004. Since the next phase beta launch in September, 2004 the interest in Yellow Arrow has been phenomenal. From Argentina to Australia, Nigeria to Finland, and from nearly every Western European country, people have been requesting arrows and become involved. Arrows have reached almost every state in the US, and pictures and maps have shown up in the web gallery from big cities everywhere -- NYC, Berlin, Miami, Copenhagen, San Francisco, Stockholm, Boston, Florence, Antwerp, LA -- and smaller towns like Chapel Hill, NC, Freiburg, Germany, Boulder, CO, and Coalmont, TN.
Yellow Arrow was a part of the Art Basel Miami Beach festival, a featured performance at the recent Digital and Video Art Fair and was exhibited at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University during the Boston Cyberarts Festival. For a overview of press coverage to date, including articles in Wired, The Boston Globe, Politiken, The Miami Herald, De Volkskrant, Liberation, The Oakland Tribune amongst many others.(...)
When does an object become art? What makes a landmark? Who says what counts?
Yellow Arrow™ is the global public art project of local experiences. It creates an open and interactive forum for people to leave and discover messages on location that point out what counts.
Participants place arrows to draw attention to different locations and objects - a favorite view of the city, an odd fi re hydrant, the local bar. By sending a text-message (SMS) from a mobile phone to the Yellow Arrow number beginning with the arrow's unique code, Yellow Arrow authors essentially save a thought on the spot where they place their sticker. Messages range from short poetic fragments to personal stories to game-like prompts to action. When another person encounters the Yellow Arrow, he or she sends its code to the Yellow Arrow number and immediately receives the message of that arrow on their mobile phone. The website YellowArrow.net extends this location-based exchange, by allowing participants to annotate their arrows with photos and maps in the online gallery of Yellow Arrows placed throughout the world.(...)
By collecting and sharing these spaces of personal signifi cance, Yellow Arrow allows the collaborative creation of a subjective atlas - a dynamic M.A.A.P. (Massively Authored Artistic Project) - that expresses the unique characteristics, personal histories, and hidden secrets that live within our everyday spaces. In a time of increasing polarization, it is our hope that the project facilitates movements of locally-driven and globally-interlinked communities to promote unity, toleration, creativity and a progressive culture. Yellow Arrow has established a broad network of global partnerships with organizations in Denmark, Germany, Australia, Brazil and the UK.(...)
Yellow Arrow first emerged at the Glowlab psy.geo.Conflux urban art festival on the Lower East Side of New York in May 2004. Since the next phase beta launch in September, 2004 the interest in Yellow Arrow has been phenomenal. From Argentina to Australia, Nigeria to Finland, and from nearly every Western European country, people have been requesting arrows and become involved. Arrows have reached almost every state in the US, and pictures and maps have shown up in the web gallery from big cities everywhere -- NYC, Berlin, Miami, Copenhagen, San Francisco, Stockholm, Boston, Florence, Antwerp, LA -- and smaller towns like Chapel Hill, NC, Freiburg, Germany, Boulder, CO, and Coalmont, TN.
Yellow Arrow was a part of the Art Basel Miami Beach festival, a featured performance at the recent Digital and Video Art Fair and was exhibited at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University during the Boston Cyberarts Festival. For a overview of press coverage to date, including articles in Wired, The Boston Globe, Politiken, The Miami Herald, De Volkskrant, Liberation, The Oakland Tribune amongst many others.(...)
# posted by Sweatpants Money : 6/17/2005 09:55:00 AM
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Hey M, this may be a bit presumptious of me, but are you going to the gay festivities on Sunday? I am supposed to cover it for the magazine -- and I think I'm getting some free passes to a few after parties -- however I am at a complete loss as to the where and when this shimdig even takes place. Can you help a brother out with some info? if you are going maybe we can meet up. Drop me a line please... jasonpfreeman@aol.com
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