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September 19, 2007
Future Perfect
Check out this mind-blowing video installation featuring Atlantic Yards.
Presented on three screens, Future Perfect compares and contrasts the architectural present with three different futures.
In December 2003, the controversial “Atlantic Yards” plan to develop this low-rise residential neighborhood was put forward by developer Bruce Ratner, proposing to build 17 skyscrapers and a sports arena. This proposal has met with much local community resistance, but has been pushed through nonetheless. Future Perfect seeks to visualize what this chosen future will look like, and to compare it with alternatives.
Each of the three screens shows the same Brooklyn streets, but each screen reveals a different future. The center screen shows a visualization of the officially approved Ratner plan, the right screen shows a visualization of the rejected alternative Extell plan, and the left screen shows my own animations of a future imagined and drawn by local schoolchildren.
Edward Purver, along with co-creators Ariel Efron & Christian Croft, conceived of Future Perfect as his thesis project for the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. The project is posted on the ITP web site, along with a fascinating description of how the project was developed.
For those of you who are interested in checking it out in person, Future Perfect will be running at the d.u.m.b.o. art under the bridge festival, September 28-30.
Posted by lumi at September 19, 2007 8:38 AM