My partner and I, artist Nina Yankowitz are preparing for the installation of an interactive project at the Guild hall Museum in East Hampton opening\u00a0June 21st. We’re in great need of hiring a student who would have skills to finish a set of five robotic mannequins. The work would involve sculpting expertise, (we need to build out the mannequins arm sections to look natural, some mechanical expertise, such as servo motors, pulley, and some electronics including some knowledge of Arduino programming. This could be two or three different people but preferably one super student.<\/p>\n
contact: \u00a0Barry Holden\u00a0<holden.barry@gmail.com<\/a> \u201cCriss~Crossing The Divine\u201d Opening reception Saturday, June 28 – 4pm to 6pm.<\/p>\n The exhibit will be on display from June 21 to July 27 2014<\/p>\n Guild Hall Art Museum 158 Main St, East Hampton, New York 11937<\/p>\n Copy and paste link\u00a0http:\/\/lnkd.in\/bFWm2yA<\/a><\/p>\n As the world turns, so do our perspectives. In an attempt to underscore that<\/p>\n religious intolerance is a function of something other than different religious<\/p>\n beliefs, \u201cCRISS~CROSSING THE DIVINE\u201d provides interactive games that<\/p>\n ordain each player as a collaborator; a co-participant in dialog with sacred texts.<\/p>\n As people enter the Guild Hall museum gallery space, here transformed into a<\/p>\n conceptual sanctuary, they encounter robotic Devotees of five major faiths. Three<\/p>\n are performing respective, rhythmic, quintessential gestures like actors<\/p>\n conversing with each other, playing roles to reflect thematic content in the video.<\/p>\n The scenario depicts a world where religious intolerance causes HOUSES OF<\/p>\n WARSHIP to eternally explode and shatter all shelters of faith. Two other<\/p>\n Devotees appear to levitate while inviting visitors to play the interactive games<\/p>\n on the gallery walls. Participants can curate topics and explore the tenets of five<\/p>\n different faiths. Using an infrared wand or paintbrush, people can search for<\/p>\n meaning in all the left and right and in-between places of religious texts,<\/p>\n assigning more or less importance to each topic-word they choose to search<\/p>\n while color-coded text results simultaneously display on the wall. These are<\/p>\n drawn from the unique ability of the proprietary database and custom software to<\/p>\n blend and integrate the player\u2019s weighted topic-words to inform the search results<\/p>\n that appear as an unfolding projected scroll. When the participant is ready to exit,<\/p>\n they press the SAVE button to receive a code number to retrieve an artist signed<\/p>\n printout of their personal search results at the museum store or view them at a<\/p>\n dedicated website to learn from which religions their color-coded texts originated.<\/p>\n *Nina Yankowitz, Artist, U.S. Director, Installation Design<\/p>\n *Mauri Kaipainen Se. multi-perspective search engine design<\/p>\n *Peter Koger, Vienna, Software\/hardware Interface Designer<\/p>\n *Barry Holden, Architect U.S. Project Coordinator<\/p>\n *Tim Mills Consulting, U.S. Robotic Engineer<\/p>\n *Consultants Pia Tikka & Rasmus Vuori<\/p>\n Nina Yankowitz team contact\u00a0nyankowitz@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n