Category: Project

Boston T1 Party

It’s just past dusk at Boston City Hall Plaza. I’m immersed in a fluid crowd of about 30-odd onlookers, to see the second night of the Symphony of a City presentation. Lila Kanner is here and so are most of the remaining members of the project’s epic crew. That includes two directing artists (Liz Canner […]

BOSTON POPS

Boston’s City Hall, a gloomy cement structure near the picturesque town houses of Beacon Hill, suggests a Soviet monolith more than the red-brick character of the city. But on the evening of April 27th, Boston documentary film-maker and muralist John Ewing introduced some personality to this stark box by projecting four giant color-video images on […]

The Project

Symphony of a City is a public cyberart documentary project by Liz Canner and John Ewing that is designed to create dialogue and reflection about housing and community building. Dynamic individuals, from a homeless person to a multi-millionaire, were nominated by over 50 community groups from across Greater Boston, to wear tiny video cameras on […]

SYMPHONY OF A CITY

Boston, a city known for tight quarters and high rents, is facing perhaps its worst housing crisis yet. Repeals of rent control, market forces, and avarice have allowed landlords to yank up rents inordinately, leaving low and medium-income tenants insecure, poorer, and often homeless. But as opposed to the years when rent control was on […]

VISIBLE REPUBLIC TO PRESENT MAJOR PUBLIC ART WORK, SYMPHONY OF A CITY, IN BOSTON: APRIL 27 & MAY 4, 2001

(Boston) — Guided by their desire to explore urban diversity through art and technology, local artists Liz Canner and John Ewing have created an innovative public art project entitled Symphony of a City. The work will consist of video projections generated by selected people using small, unobtrusive camera headsets or “wearcams” as they go through their daily activities. […]

Juxtaposed 

We juxtaposed the day of John Copolla, a multi-millionaire landlord and Mike Murray a homeless University of Massachusetts student. The videos were edited to reveal how each of the subjects moves through public and private space. Mike spends all of his day in public space beginning with his early morning bathroom rituals in Mcdonalds. In contrast, John starts […]