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Developments Autumn 2011
During a period of relative silence surrounding the project, eight students from the University of Applied Sciences Leiden did their internship for 20 weeks and worked hard to do research on how to make the Public Window platform more stable.
They documented their progress and achievements in their own blogs artofcoding.nl, swing.nderuijter.nl and instructables.com. Partly in response to these results we are now continuing building.
The pilot and the internship results brought us some good ideas. We are now looking for new options and funding to build a solid platform. From several sources interest has been shown.
In present day society a system like Public Window is a welcome addition to ensure that empty spaces and shop windows are filled and become more attractive, as audiences are drawn into the city and artists get a new stage for showing their work.
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Artistic teleoperation network of the future
The objective of the Public Window Foundation is to promote interactive art in public spaces. Artists get the opportunity to develop interactive work for the audience on the street and the internet user at a distance. The shop windows have been tranfered into software windows. The viewer can control the works through the use of touch-screens fitted to the window. The occasional passer-by can change form, movement and / or lighting of the works.
Public Window 001 and Public Window 002, both in Leiden, are the first in a series. Amsterdam, Delft, The Hague, Brussels, Basle, Dublin, Sydney and many other cities will follow. Artists will be able to reach new audiences throughout the world through this new social medium. Cameras will take the art beyond it’s local setting and the whole world will become it’s platform for communication.