[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.45,0:00:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe in Philadelphia I often tell Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.26,0:00:05.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people my attachment to Philly is Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.61,0:00:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,visceral. When I'm downtown or a South Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.07,0:00:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Philly restaurant, I feel remarkably Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.66,0:00:12.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,connected. "Should I compare thee to a Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.21,0:00:14.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,summers day? Thou art more lovely and Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.91,0:00:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more temperate. Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.02,0:00:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Open air is a large scale interactive Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.84,0:00:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,installation, where very powerful Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.21,0:00:23.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spotlights are actually controlled by Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.25,0:00:25.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the voices of participants. Most of the Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.59,0:00:27.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time when you see a show, a light show in Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.42,0:00:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sky, it's actually following a score Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.70,0:00:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of music so the lights are moving to the Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.56,0:00:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beat. Instead here in Philadelphia, what Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.32,0:00:36.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're doing, is if those lights move it's Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.27,0:00:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they were reacting to the voice Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.34,0:00:40.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of someone who has sent a message either Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.47,0:00:42.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through a special iPhone app or through Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.51,0:00:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a webpage. That message arrives into our Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.86,0:00:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,servers, we analyze it for volume for Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.56,0:00:52.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intonation for frequency, and then when Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.29,0:00:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it gets played back in the Parkway the Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.60,0:00:57.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lights react to those parameters. So in Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.33,0:01:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,position and and in intensity." (music) Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.60,0:01:21.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The project is in a way it's kind of Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.43,0:01:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a rant line or maybe like a Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.05,0:01:25.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,voicemail system, where you send messages Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.03,0:01:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but instead of sending them directly to Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.10,0:01:28.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody, first they go into the night Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.63,0:01:31.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sky. People can listen to those messages Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.42,0:01:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the phone or through speakers Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.37,0:01:34.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are any consolable in Logan Square. Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.99,0:01:37.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the idea is, create a platform for Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.57,0:01:39.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,communication, but that is visualized and Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.73,0:01:47.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that takes over the entire park. "Baby, it looks like you never felt sky before, well let Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.65,0:01:50.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all rhythm read the fine morning before Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.05,0:01:51.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you go blowing out those stars of Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.97,0:01:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tomorrow and I'm Ray by the way. Then Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.08,0:01:59.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yeah". "When your message appears in the Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.32,0:02:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,night sky, the system notifies you it's Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.60,0:02:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like.. 'hey it's your turn here comes your Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.16,0:02:05.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,message' and all the lights actually find Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.74,0:02:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you with GPS tracking and all the lights Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.08,0:02:10.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are oriented toward you. So in a way you Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.33,0:02:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,become part of the show, you're part of Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.64,0:02:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the limelight so to speak but it's Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.80,0:02:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also a little bit awkward or violent Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.02,0:02:18.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you feel like all of these Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.37,0:02:20.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lights are actually tracking you over Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.68,0:02:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the park where you can't get away from Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.09,0:02:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them, so it's a project that has a a Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.48,0:02:27.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sense of seduction and participation but Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.73,0:02:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then also a sense of tracking and of Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.22,0:02:31.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,policing and just making people aware Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.87,0:02:33.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that these technologies have very Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.61,0:02:35.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accurate information about where we are Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.77,0:02:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who we are. Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.04,0:02:42.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I'm interested in is in Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.69,0:02:44.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self-representation, the idea that it is Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.67,0:02:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the people who make the decisions about Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.74,0:02:49.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the contents will be. What you're Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.29,0:02:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually seeing is what people have said Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.44,0:02:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you too can be part of that dialogue