This has to be one of the most interesting productions I have ever seen. Lynn Sachs and Susan Agliata are the artists and producers of this interactive online art exhibition, which is collaborated with eleven additional artists in New York City. Sachs and Agliata both have backgrounds in filmmaking and media studies. The remaining eleven are Joseph Tekippe, In Choi, Alisa Besher, Beth Botshon, Janine Fleri, David Gatten, Barbara Hammer, Heather Kramer, George Kuchar, Ethan Mass, Scott Nyerges, and Erik Schurink ,which all specialize among digital media, filmmaking, photography, media arts, and other fine arts.
Their goal is to take 26 unusual words following in alphabetical order and create a relationship between said word and sites in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island using original video footage, animation, photography, and sound.
I find it very interesting how these artists are using media tools to create this interactive online exhibition to capture the culture of New York City through a series of selected words. Each word is extremely unusual; they are those words that you never find yourself using, yet these artists have found ways to apply them to their selected visual and audible representations of New York culture.
This exhibition almost reminds me of a form of ethnographic work in that it captures what it is to be in NYC. There are definitely emic and etic views to each representation.
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http://rhizome.org/object.php?o=47250&m=1048649
http://www.abecedariumnyc.com/
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