"Criss~Crossing The Divine" invite
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CRISS~CROSSING THE DIVINE : Multimedia project - Nina Yankowitz Opening Reception: Saturday, June 28 th 4pm - 6pm Exhibition on display from June 21 to July 27 2014 at Guild Hall Art Museum 158 Main St, East Hampton, NY11937 http://lnkd.in/bFWm2yA Nina Yankowitz and her interactive technology experts Invite you to enter a virtual sanctuary to play groundbreaking interactive games that appoints each player a partner, a co-participant, in dialog with various sacred texts as they search for meaning in all the left and right and in between places. As the world turns, so do our perspectives. In an attempt to underscore that religious intolerance is a function of something other than different religious beliefs, “CRISS~CROSSING THE DIVINE” provides interactive games where participants can curate topics and explore the tenets of five different faiths. Nina Yankowitz has transformed the museum gallery into a conceptual sanctuary where the public can encounter five robotic sculptures representing devotees of five major faiths. Three perform rhythmic, quintessential gestures, like actors in conversation with each other in roles in the video projecting on a wall. The video scenario depicts a world where religious intolerance perpetually causes HOUSES OF WARSHIP to eternally explode and shatter all shelters of faith. Two Devotees appear to levitate while inviting visitors to play the interactive games on the gallery walls. Using an infrared wand or paintbrush, people can select and move topic-words to assign more or less importance to each topic they choose to search, while color-coded text results simultaneously display on another screen. These are drawn from the unique proprietary database and custom software that blends and integrates the player’s weighted topic-words informing the search results. When the participant is ready to exit, they press the SAVE button and receive a code number to bring to the bookstore to purchase an artist signed print of their personal search/results, or receive a dedicated web address to view, and learn from which religions their color-coded text results originated. Gallery talk with Nina Yankowitz Sunday July 13 from 12-1:30pm Discussion with Curator/Museum Director Christina Strassfield about the cultural norms of the day due to the advent of the Internet; including Fashions-In-Motion performance intervention by Ian Holden *Nina Yankowitz, Artist, U.S. multimedia “Sanctuary” design, project director & video projections Interactive games with technology team :
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Robotic Devotees Invite YOU into a virtual sanctuary to play interactive games in an installation that ordains each player a collaborator, a co-participant, in dialog with respective sacred texts as they search for meaning in all the left and right and in between places.
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CRISS~CROSSING THE DIVINE: Multimedia project - Nina Yankowitz Opening Reception: Saturday, June 28th 4pm - 6pm Exhibition on display from June 21 to July 27 2014 at Guild Hall Art Museum 158 Main St, East Hampton, NY11937 http://lnkd.in/bFWm2yA
Nina Yankowitz and her interactive technology experts Invite you to enter a virtual sanctuary to play groundbreaking interactive games that appoints each player a partner, a co-participant, in dialog with various sacred texts as they search for meaning in all the left and right and in between places. As the world turns, so do our perspectives. In an attempt to underscore that religious intolerance is a function of something other than different religious beliefs, “CRISS~CROSSING THE DIVINE” provides interactive games where participants can curate topics and explore the tenets of five different faiths. Nina Yankowitz has transformed the museum gallery into a conceptual sanctuary where the public can encounter five robotic sculptures representing devotees of five major faiths. Three perform rhythmic, quintessential gestures, like actors in conversation with each other in roles in the video projecting on a wall. The video scenario depicts a world where religious intolerance perpetually causes HOUSES OF WARSHIP to eternally explode and shatter all shelters of faith. Two Devotees appear to levitate while inviting visitors to play the interactive games on the gallery walls. Using an infrared wand or paintbrush, people can select and move topic-words to assign more or less importance to each topic they choose to search, while color-coded text results simultaneously display on another screen. These are drawn from the unique proprietary database and custom software that blends and integrates the player’s weighted topic-words informing the search results. When the participant is ready to exit, they press the SAVE button and receive a code number to bring to the bookstore to purchase an artist signed print of their personal search/results, or receive a dedicated web address to view, and learn from which religions their color-coded text results originated. Gallery talk with Nina Yankowitz Sunday July 13 from 12-1:30pm Discussion with Curator/Museum Director Christina Strassfield about the cultural norms of the day due to the advent of the Internet; including Fashions-In-Motion performance intervention by Ian Holden *Nina Yankowitz, Artist, U.S. multimedia “Sanctuary” design, project director & video projections Interactive games with technology team:
*Mauri Kaipainen Se. multi-perspective search engine design *Peter Koger, Vienna, Software/hardware Interface Designer Installation Team
*Barry Holden, Architect U.S. Project Coordinator *U.S. Robotic Team Engineers *Consultants Pia Tikka & Rasmus Vuori, Updated from CROSSINGS interactive Art Installation with team 2007-2009 Premiere at The Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece ’09 Originally conceived “House of Worships Not Warships” 2000 Nina Yankowitz Other projects can be viewed at - http://nyartprojects.com/content/links2012.pdf
