who’s afraid of blue, red and green? (embedded), 2006
mobile installation in the greater boston metro area, 2 billboards mounted on tractor-trailer truck, each ink-jet print on vinyl, 275 x 1585 cm.
exhibition: günther selichar — media machines, tufts university art gallery, medford/boston, 2006.
who’s afraid of blue, red and green? (embedded), 2006
mobile installation in the greater boston metro area, 2 billboards mounted on tractor-trailer truck, each ink-jet print on vinyl, 275 x 1585 cm.
exhibition: günther selichar — media machines, tufts university art gallery, medford/boston, 2006.
© video: ian mcfarland.
© photos (from top to bottom): jeanne v. koles; jeanne v. koles; jeanne v. koles; günther selichar; günther selichar; günther selichar; jeanne v. koles.
amy i. schlegel
selichar has extrapolated his concerns with colored screen surfaces to the public realm in several public art “interventions” which he has staged since 1993 on display at venues in new york city, shanghai, china, various european cities, and now in boston.
most recently, in 2004 selichar was invited by creative time, a temporary public art commissioning agency in new york city, to create a digital animation for its program “the 59th minute” on the nbc astrovision panasonic screen in times square.
in boston, selichar’s public art intervention is mobile and co-opts traditional advertising space. he typed the word “embedded” on a computer, photographed the screen, and enlarged it to monumental proportions (9 ft. high x 52 ft. long), employing the rectangular cinemascope aspect ratio perfectly suited to the format of a tractor trailer. concept and image are perfectly united in this project.
from: amy i. schlegel, günther selichar – media machines, tufts university art gallery/aidekman arts center, medford/boston 2006