Time In, 2005

Computer Installation, Custom Software, Digital Prints
Dimensions Variable
 

This is the first collaboration between artists Yucef Merhi and Carlo Zanni. Merhi and Zanni hacked into the "Time Out New York Magazine" online queries database (the one that stores all the queries entered by their website's visitors) and created an ideal dynamic city to visualize information in constant flux. Live queries shift the scale of skyscrapers every minute while CNN news cover images take the form of choppers and zeppelins and a meteorology station (La Guardia airport) provides info to generate realistic skies. This contemporary networked landscape operates as a visual diagram and social metaphor of a public sculpture, as any urban center is.