COFA Student in 2009 Art & About
Posted in Events, Exhibition, Festival, News on September 9th, 2009
COFA Presents Bec Young: Conversation Observation, as part of Art & About 2009, presented by the City of Sydney
COFA Bachelor of Fine Arts student Rebecca Young will have work included in Art & About 2009. The artwork, titled Conversation Observation is a site specific installation using LED moving message signs placed in the windows of various shops along Oxford Street in Darlinghurst. The variable message signs will display snippets of conversations overheard on Oxford Street, and will be constantly changing. The project will have a discrete ‘minder’ who will listen to pedestrians talking and program the signs through a computer or SMS service.
Conversation Observation taps into the way technology has changed our access to private information in recent years. For example, the boundaries between public and private become blurry as people scream the most intimate things into their mobile phones as they walk down the street. This artwork playfully highlights the fact that not only is big brother watching (and listening), everyone else is too.
COFA Presents Bec Young: Conversation Observation, an associated event of Art & About, presented by City of Sydney
For more information on Art & About please visit: artandabout.com.au
Conversation Observation will be available for public viewing at venues during Art & About October 1st to 25th , 2009 :
Beauchamp Hotel 265-267 Oxford St, Sydney NSW 2000
The Falconer Bar Cafe Restaurant 31 Oxford St, Sydney NSW 2000
Iku Wholefood 62-64 Oxford St, Sydney NSW 2000