Live video art installation (concept?) showing remote locations?

August 6, 2015 2:11 PM

I remember a live video art installation (or a concept?) about setting up large video screens in public spaces, with cameras, linked to video screens w/cameras in other cities (even international) where the general public would wander by and see the equivalent general public wandering by in the other location. A kind of public park "skype" that's always on & linked to another location. I'm looking for info about such projects, and my google-fu is failing me.
posted by jpeacock to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

Perhaps this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1021258/The-amazing-telescope-lets-New-York-Londons-Tower-Bridge.html
posted by nickggully at 2:22 PM on August 6, 2015

This Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere project ( pdf article) is similar but doesn't sound quite the same. There were a few iterations, but the one I remember is as follows

When participants entered the tents, they encountered a live life-size projection of their counterpart across the globe. The participants were encouraged to learn whatever they could of the dance they were shown, and then teach whatever they remembered to the next person in line. Each participant was able to share, learn, and translate sequences of movements so as to collectively produce a chain of what Hilton dubbed ‘movement whispers’. The movements were passed back and forth between participants in real time. Footage captured inside the tent was broadcast live to the big screens in Melbourne and Seoul.

posted by spamandkimchi at 2:52 PM on August 6, 2015

Hole in Space
posted by effluvia at 2:55 PM on August 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

Came by to say Hole in Space too but effluvia beat me to it!
posted by Chairboy at 3:51 PM on August 6, 2015

Response by poster: Both the Telescope and Hole is Space are close conceptually to what I remember (but 1980! wow!), though my memory was of a modern piece using web cams & large doorway-sized flat panels, not nearly as artistic as the Telescope.
posted by jpeacock at 10:07 AM on August 7, 2015 [1 favorite]