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"Broadway" 2007/8
Found object kinetic sculpture generating live video and audio
65" h x 60" x 35"

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Ian Burns sculpture. Broadway. 2007         Ian Burns sculpture. Broadway. 2007         Ian Burns sculpture. Broadway. 2007         Ian Burns sculpture. Broadway. 2007         Ian Burns sculpture. Broadway. 2007

 

A piece made in the spirit of New York: toy taxis jostle for position on a treadmill, while the view from one cab's rear window is fed live (via a bolted-on camera) into the TV monitor above.

The control system of the treadmill is hacked to periodically stop its motion while the red light is switched on. On the TV screen we see the view from the back of a taxi making a hurried rush down Broadway from red light to red light, eager for the next fare.

 

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