Real time sunrise and sunset as graphic design intervention on Whitney.org

Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir who form the collaborative Ecoarttech have a new web art piece that brings the physical cycles of the moon into the electronic realm of the Internet. At sunrise and sunset, fluctuating orbs of light disrupt the “digital landscape,” and the information environment of the website for the Whitney Museum of American Art (whitney.org).  The regular museum website is ruptured by ecoarttech’s visual intervention of blurry orbs overpowing the other online information timed to coincide precisely with sunrise and sunset in New York City (EST). The size and speed of the orbs will vary based on the number of visitors to whitney.org since the previous sunrise (for sunset) or sunset (for sunrise); higher visitation results in larger, slower-moving orbs.

Ecoarttech’s work has consistently explored relationships between landscape, technology, and culture, and their commissioned work for whitney.org metaphorically explores the museum’s information landscape as it is shaped by its visitors.

I am going to have my classes tune in live in Chicago on January 5 and 6, 2010 to observe this unnatural phenomenon.

Unnatural sunrise by Ecoarttech temporarily disrupts the Whitney's main web portal.