Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Revised Program

I've revised my program since Monday, please give comments or suggestions if you get the chance. Thank you.

These spaces will be a series of newsstand kiosks combined with broadcasting centers for controversial news directly received from corresponding cameras in Iraq. Each kiosk will be strategically placed throughout the city in locations where there are masses of people who will see the broadcasts, specifically in tourist or government-run areas. The newsstands will each have their own architectural quality to correspond with the building/plaza/space that they occupy. The politically charged broadcasts will also change according to the placement of the kiosks.
In Times Square, for example, there will be soldiers' personal video blogs posted and broadcast inside of the kiosk. At the UN headquarters, there will be news from television and radio stations throughout the entire world, including Al-Jazeera radio programs. In Central Park, the kiosks will send out projections of the current landscape in Iraq and the destruction caused. Each station within Manhattan will correspond to a station in Baghdad, wherein either soldiers post their blogs to a computer, or speak directly into a camera about their experiences, a camera set up to absorb the landscape and the violence, or there are cameras where reporters are allowed to openly describe the conditions.
Each of these architectural spaces will allow for tourists and the general public to get a sense of what is truly going on in Iraq with an unfiltered, unaltered point of view. The camera “eyes” will be placed in a position in Baghdad mirroring that of the broadcast's position in Manhattan.

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