the pedestrian
...wandering around, finding favorite things...
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
99 Red Balloons
99 Red Balloons
...is a live action street game of collective surveillance
...proposes an alternate story, an oppositional one, performed through play in public space.
...[is] a mass of 99 red helium balloons sent up, up into the sky above Cesar Chavez Plaza and surrounding sites to take over surveillance of the city.
--is each a balloon 5 feet in diameter when inflated, outfitted with a small, hidden wireless camera, and connected to a 60 feet tether, held and manipulated by players during the game to control the height and position of the balloon.

The city becomes interactive, lively, visible, imagined, red, and passionate!
One can hunt forever looking for jems. Today the mine comes to you... Interactive City!!!