In an episode of the APL Volumes podcast, Cultural Arts Division staff member Calder Kamin interviews Urban Matter Inc. about public art and their new artwork Golden Afternoon, a public art installation in the Seaholm Redevelopment commissioned by Austin Art in Public Places.
Great shots of Golden afternoon and insightful sound bytes from John Rosato, principal of Southwest Strategies Group in Austin, on City View, City of Austin Government Access Channel.
This virtual pong game at NYU aims to restore social interaction to gaming and activate an abandoned storefront.
Playing larger-than-life Pong on a NYC storefront
Pop-Up Pong Game Promotes Storefront Interaction
Downtown Louisville Art Exhibit Makes Air Quality Visible
Local ‘Air Bare’ exhibit monitors the city’s air pollution
Seeing is believing: “Air Bare” installation merges pollution data and art to help clear the air in Louisville
Using data visualization art to tell Louisville’s air quality story.
Telling Stories About Louisville’s Air Quality Through Art.
Urban Matter Inc is a part of a Brazilian TV Program called Ateliê Urbano about different types of urban artistic expressions in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and New York axis.
Urban Matter likely to light up Austin’s Seaholm with art installation.
Urban Matter Turns Parking Garage Into Fiber Optic Installation.
Unnatural Nature : Embracing the city by transforming industrial blight into urban amenity.
Bangladeshi-American artist Fariba Alam uses geomteric angles, pixels and mathematical diagrams to define themes of migration and travel.
Good Night : A Dazzling New Era of Metropolitan Light, essay by Sandy Isenstadt
MYSTIC TRAIL, Review of ‘Lace of Stars’ by Amrita Varma
Urban Matter’s ‘Silent Lights’ turns New York City traffic noise into color.
Silent Light installation illuminated sound pollution in Brooklyn.
Silent Lights: Noise-Activated LED Gates Illuminate Passageway Underneath Brooklyn Queens Expressway.
New public art display ‘Silent Lights’ unveiled under the BQE in Fort Greene
Brooklyn Installation Turns Traffic Noise Into An Exuberant Light Vista.
How combining light and sound can help reveal local character.
Arup recently invited Urban Matter Inc. to install work in its New York lobby as part of a new rotating exhibition series. Connect caught up with the designers as they set up Wise Words.
Shagun Singh and Valeria Bianco give us insider details about Wise Words, a project as part of IDEAS CITY celebrating women immigrants in New York City.
The Magazine of the American Institute of Architects : US Pavilion, 13th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
ARTfarm Project Turns Gritty New York Streets Into a Green Haven.
‘Creating Urban Futures through Tactical Urbanism’ covers the role of tactical urbanism in creating sustainable urban experiences.
Silent Lights was published in the ‘By the City / For the City: An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York
Play Array was installed as an interactive pop up at the NYU storefront space in Downtown Brooklyn in May 2015.
Bare Branches created in collaboration with Fariba Alam was shown at Shirin Gallery in Chelsea, NYC, from June 11th to July 11th 2015.
Bare Branches was done in collaboration with Fariba Alam and was shown at the Shrine Empire Gallery in New Delhi as a part of the show Lace of Stars.
Wise Words was shown as a part of the IDEAS CITY FESTIVAL organized by the New Museum. This initiative explores the future of cities around the globe with the belief that art and culture are essential to the vitality of urban centers, making them better places to live, work and play.