MoMA PS1 YAP Finalist 2013: White Noise

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MoMA PS1 YAP Finalist 2013: White Noise

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WHITE NOISE (or THE BUZZ) reveals the latent potential of the
community. It is the sound of the talent and value around us. The
installation harnesses this latent value with an interactive sound
environment (a collaboration with ARUP Acoustics) embedded in a playful
series of figural abstractions, clad with white synthetic turf. The
foregrounded backdrop of the architecture highlights the project’s main
event, sharing and exchange among the people in the space, and
manipulates readings of scale.

The sounds are sourced via phone from visitors and passersby
who are asked to share what skills and resources they have to exchange.

The tactile turf invites visitors to participate through touch,
unleashing the altered sound input via sensors to control clarity and
volume.

The visual and kinesthetic experience of the project’s white
set pieces blurs both depth and scale. Visitors feel as though they are
inhabiting the space of a 2D drawing or paper model, playing object and
subject simultaneously.

The project explores two approaches to sustainability:
community-based and material-based. The community approach aims to both
expose local peer resources through interaction and to translate the
labor involved in building into ongoing bartered exchanges. Interactions
are encouraged to continue outside the walls in the creative bartering
community of OurGoods.org. The material approach converts the monetary
investment into afterlife possibilities - not only are sustainable
materials used, they are either fed back into the community as
playground covering, and materials for local artists, or returned to
their original use,
Special Thanks to:
Alban Bassuet, ARUP Acoustics, NYC
Anne Guthrie, ARUP Acoustics, NYC
Patrick McCafferty, Associate Principal, Structural Engineer, ARUP Cambridge, MA
Annabelle Pang, Graphic Design, NYC
Gabriel Mugar, Exchange Economy Consultant
OurGoods.org