Creative Time 2003 Art in Times Square Rfp Invitation ââ“ Times Square Kiosk
Times Square Arts has appear that MODU and Eric Forman Studio 'south Heart Squared is the winner of this yr'south annual Times Foursquare Valentine Heart Design Competition curated by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Pattern Museum . As this year's winning design, Heart Squared will be unveiled on January 30 at 11am at Father Duffy Foursquare, betwixt 46th and 47th Streets. The installation volition remain on view for the calendar month of Feb. Interested in renewing vows? Proposing? How nearly getting married ~ all on Duffy Square, info below.
Tilted in diverse directions within a steel frame that evokes the outline of an anatomic heart, the 125 mirrors of Heart Squared transform the spectacle of Times Foursquare into kaleidoscopic images of people, buildings, and brightly-lit billboards. While the position of each mirror seems random, the designers developed a specialized technique to calculate the specific angles in order to hibernate a playful surprise. As viewers movement around the construction towards a special marked location, those hundreds of reflections all of a sudden coagulate, revealing a pixel eye of urban life surrounded by a field of mirrored heaven.
Heart Squared brings people together to discover the heart within — a heart that reflects anyone and everyone who engages with it, its colors and composition changing every bit the sun rises and sets, equally billboard lights and screens shift, and every bit thousands of people pass through the infinite. Viewers tin can interact spontaneously with one some other through the mirrors or discover their own experiences within the piece, jubilant their beloved of the city and the incredible variety of people inside it.
This marks the 12th ceremony of the Times Foursquare Valentine Heart Design Competition, an annual event where Times Square Arts invites architecture and design firms to submit proposals for a public art installation celebrating Dear in Times Foursquare in February. Situated in front of the Red Steps each year, the Valentine Heart continues Times Square's commitment to celebrating great pattern — a delivery exemplified past the Red Steps themselves, which take won multiple architecture awards; by the Times Square Blueprint Lab initiative; and by Times Square'due south connection to events like NYCxDESIGN, which has stationed its Pattern Pavilion on the Broadway Plazas for the past three years.
On February 25th, Cooper Hewitt will host a public program with the designers to delve deeper into the design process story and explore the work in the greater context of public art and blueprint installations.
Middle Squared represents the collective heart of the city and as such, is an engaging borough statement well-nigh celebrating our differences and bringing people together in a fundamentally inclusive way," said MODU.
"We are using the magic of mirrors and light to remix the urban spectacle into something unexpected, to give people a new style to run across the city — and each other," said Eric Forman Studio.
Tim Tompkins, President of the Times Square Alliance, said "MODU and Eric Forman Studio's blueprint, Heart Squared, shapes the imagery of Times Square'due south iconic screens, various people, and ever-shining lights, turning a mirror on what draws so many of us together: the city itself."
"As America's Pattern Museum, Cooper Hewitt is delighted to collaborate with Times Square Arts to infuse inclusive and accessible blueprint at the Crossroads of the World," said Caroline Baumann, director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. "Through its innovative utilise of mirrors to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of urban life, MODU and Eric Forman Studio's Heart Squared demonstrates the power of pattern to foster community and spark connections."
The proposals for the 2020 Valentine Heart Blueprint Competition were reviewed by representatives from the Valentine Center Selection Committee and Sean Anderson, Associate Curator, Department of Compages and Pattern, MoMA; Victor Calise, Commissioner, Mayor's Role for People with Disabilities; Jean Cooney, Director, Times Square Arts; Kevin Davey, Director, UAP Company; Wendy Feuer, Assistant Commissioner Urban Pattern + Art + Wayfinding, NYC DOT; Jennifer Lantzas, Deputy Director of Public Art, NYC Parks; Andrea Lipps, Gimmicky Blueprint Curator, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Blueprint Museum; Nadine Maleh, Executive Director, Capital Projects, Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, Board Member and old Executive Director, Institute for Public Architecture; Suchi Reddy, Founder, Reddymade (2019 Valentine Heart Design Competition winner); Tim Tompkins, President, Times Square Alliance.
Now for the Gratuitous Ticketed Events to be held on Valentine's Day ~ Weddings ~ Proposals ~ Vow Renewal, all held on Feb 14th at Duffy Foursquare. Exist sure to secure your Tickets.
Virtually MODU
Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem have led MODU since its founding in 2012. They were awarded the 2017 Founders Rome Prize in Architecture, since 1897 an annual prize to those "who represent the highest standards of excellence in the arts and humanities." Recently, they take also been awarded the Emerging Voices accolade from the Architectural League of New York (2019) and the US-Nippon Creative Artists fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (2018).
About Eric Forman Studio
Eric Forman is a Brooklyn-based artist and designer working at the intersections between fine art, design, architecture, and new technology. Eric started programming as a child in the 1980s and was an early member of the groundbreaking online media entity Pseudo Programs in the mid 1990s. Eric Forman Studio was founded in 2003, and in 2012 was invited to be a founding member of New Lab, a adjacent generation innovation space in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. His studio's blueprint practice specializes in the latest interactive experiences and digital fabrication techniques for various clients.
Middle Squared marks the 12th Anniversary of the Times Foursquare Center Design Competition. The installation will be on view from January 30 through Feb 28, 2020 in Times Foursquare at Begetter Duffy Square between 46th/47th Streets.
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