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[the invisible city]

Lacy M. Johnson + Josh Okun + Rob Ray

Date & Time: Wed, April 9 at 8:00 am (also happening Thurs, April 10-Sun, April 13, for details visit invisiblecityproject.com)
Location: Various Sites

ABOUT THE PROJECT

[the invisible city] is an interactive multimedia project that unfolds across several interrelated plot-lines, each plot-line consisting of dozens of location-based installments, which can only be accessed when a reader’s GPS-enabled smartphone or tablet computer matches the coordinates of a specified location. Artists Lacy Johnson, Josh Okun, and Rob Ray create a framework in which contributing writers explore questions about the nature of community and place. Part performance, part digital installation, [the invisible city] asks visitors and natives alike to explore the city like never before — to run through downtown underground tunnels, to catch city buses, or to take a kayak down the bayou — all in pursuit of a story.

Artistas: Lacy M. Johnson x Josh Okun x Rob Ray
Título: [the invisible city (la ciudad invisible)]
Fecha: Desde el miércoles 9 hasta el domingo 13 de abril
Hora: En curso
Para obtener información acerca de los horarios de inicio y las ubicaciones, visite invisiblecityproject.com

Una representación itinerante y un giro moderno sobre la serie del libro de juegos “Choose Your Own Adventure” (Elije tu Propia Aventura), [the invisible city (la ciudad invisible)] se desarrolla a través de varias historias interrelacionadas, cada historia consiste en decenas de instalaciones basadas en la ubicación, a las cuales se puede acceder únicamente cuando un el teléfono inteligente con GPS habilitado o la computadora tableta del lector coincide con las coordenadas de una ubicación especificada. Los artistas Lacy M. Johnson, Josh Okun y Rob Ray exploran muchos distritos sociales, económicos y materiales de Houston, suscitando interrogantes sobre la naturaleza de la comunidad y el lugar de este proyecto interactivo de multimedia. [the invisible city] solicita a los visitantes, al igual que a los nativos, que exploren la ciudad como personajes ficticios, recorriendo túneles subterráneos de la ciudad, tomando los autobuses de la ciudad o tomando un kayac que descienda en la salida del río, todo en búsqueda de la historia.

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ARTIST BIO

Lacy M. Johnson is the author of THE OTHER SIDE, forthcoming from Tin House Books (2014), and Trespasses: A Memoir (University of Iowa Press, 2012). She worked as a cashier at WalMart, sold steaks door-to-door, and puppeteered with a traveling children’s museum before earning a PhD from University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Houston Arts Alliance, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Kansas Arts Commission, Inprint, and Millay Colony for the Arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin HouseThe Racial Imaginary (Fence Books, 2014), Fourth GenreLiterature: The Human Experience (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013), Creative NonfictionSentence, TriQuarterly OnlineMemoir JournalGulf Coast, and elsewhere.

Josh Okun is a futurist and innovator living and working in Houston, TX. He uses interactive media to explore the spaces where the digital and real worlds collide. He has received honors from Communication Arts, One Show, Webby’s, Adobe, AIGA, OMMA, and AAF.

Rob Ray examines technology in public/outdoor spaces and creates interactive public artworks, experimental videos, and sound compositions.

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