ArtWorks is proud to announce its partnership with MASARY Studios to bring Massively Distributed (MD) to BLINK,the nation’s largest light, art, and projection mapping experience! ‘MD’ is a free public web-app instrument by MASARY Studios used to create audio / visual compositions. The web-app which hosts sample audio and visual art allows users to create their own compositions using provided samples. The creations are then used in large-scale public installations.
By using samples recorded in and around Cincinnati, the web-app instrument offers the public (you!) an opportunity to play and create with elements of the city’s sonic and visual landscapes. After you submit your composition(s), these creations are then arranged together with others and activated through an interactive large-scale public projection and sound installation at BLINK.
A main element of MD is the recording of the audio and visual samples for the app’s users. The samples are created within the place in which the installation is being presented. All of the samples offered in MD for BLINK were recorded in and around Cincinnati. Through a partnership with ArtWorks, a group of four Youth Apprentices, Sylvie Tiro, Eva Robles, Adia Eagle, Nata Thiam and Teaching Artist, Joe Walsh, captured video, photo, and audio throughout the city this summer. Different areas of the city were sought out with direction from MASARY, giving the recording process structure while guiding the local team to be intuitive and define their own definitions of place.
Available across all devices, the web app is live as of 10.1.22 available for you to create with and then see your art at BLINK.
Create your own compositions using the samples and see your creations at Blink! The web-app is live across all devices – visit www.md.place to get started.
About MASARY Studios
MASARY Studios is a transdisciplinary artist collective reconsidering environments through site-specific installations using sound, light, interactivity, and performance. Based in Boston, the studio’s practice includes live percussion performance, electronic music and production, facade projection-mapped video, artistic research, technology and materials fabrication, and the expansive use of animation. The studio is artist-owned and managed and was founded in 2015.
About ArtWorks
Since 1996, ArtWorks has collaborated with community organizations and residents, businesses, governments, foundations, and nonprofits to build creative works of art that built the Greater Cincinnati region’s global reputation as an arts destination. ArtWorks has employed and trained over 3,500 professional artists and 4,000 youth, ages 14 – 24. We invest in our creative economy by creating jobs that support local talent, pairing professional artists to inspire and mentor diverse teams of youth, helping them build 21st-century career-readiness skills. Over the past 26 years, this collaborative approach has created a citywide gallery with more than 14,000 public and private art projects, including more than 250 permanent outdoor murals.
