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Monumental

Budget: 2,000 USD
Artists: Lisa B. Woods, Jerome Martinez, Barna Kantor
Medium: Projection mapping over low-poly foam-core sculpture
Technologies: OpenFrameworks, MadMapper, LogiTech Web Cameras, Short-throw Projectors

Event Description:
UNESCO Creative Cities Network: Fostering a Strong Future for Digital Artmaking." The discussion will highlight the challenges media artists face and the role of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) and their arts communities in implementing initiatives and best practices to support and promote digital art-making around the world.

Artist Statement:
"Monuments are always products of their time. Always reflections of power." -Paul Farber Our country, the U.S., is currently taking a critical look at the monuments in our public spaces and what they signify.

Monumental asks: What is worthy of commemoration? And who decides? Since many monuments are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the UNESCO Media Arts Exhibition is a symbolic space to re-examine the concept of civic monuments.

As a participatory installation, Monumental You invites the audiences to be a part of the conversation by projecting their faces to a large format sculpture, and asks to reconfigure the idea of a monument.

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