Since 1980 he has carried close to 80 projections in several dozen countries on different continents. Using transparencies and video streams, shown in galleries and museum spaces or projected on building walls and public monuments, charged with political and social meanings, the projections dealt with the issues of human rights, democracy, violence and alienation. Starting with the Town Hall Tower Projection (Cracow, 1996), the artist began animating city monuments and public buildings with live sound and image(Bunker Hill Monument, Boston,1998; Atomic-Bomb Dome, Hiroshima, 1999; Centro Cultural Tijuana, 2001; façade of the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2005; Kunstmuseum, Basel, 2006, Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Warsaw, 2008, et al.). The artist is currently preparing a Creative Time-commissioned project for Governors Island, New York City). Another public projection is being planned for the Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna in 2010.
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Credits
Created by: Susan Sollins & Susan Dowling. Executive Producer & Curator: Susan Sollins. Series Producer: Eve-Laure Moros Ortega. Associate Producer: Migs Wright. Assistant Curator: Wesley Miller. Production Manager: Alice Bertoni. Production Coordinator: Kelly Shindler. Producer: Catherine Tatge. Editor: Steven Wechsler. Host: David Alan Grier. Director of Photography: Takahisa Araki, Richard Chisolm, Mark Falstad, Gary Henoch, Samuel Henriques, Mead Hunt, Tom Hurwitz, Joel Shapiro, David Smith, Ken Willinger, & Sérgio Zeigler. Sound: Tom Bergin, Steve Bores, Dwayne Dell, Bob Freeman, Roger Phenix, Merce Williams, & Sérgio Zeigler. Assistant Camera: Chris DeGuy, Craig Feldman, Brian Hwang, Steve Nealey, & Matt Thurber. Production Assistant: Matt Cavanaugh & Justin Leitstein. Assistant Avid Editor: Robert Achs, Jamie Courville, Sean Frechette, Mike Heffron, David Kreger, Cara Leroy O’Connell, Joaquin Perez, Aaron Sheddrick, & Lynn True. Voice-Over Artist (Cai Guo-Qiang segment): Clem Cheung. Translator (Cai Guo-Qiang segment): Ai Guo, Louisa Lam, & Mingxia Li. Still Photography: Alice Bertoni.
Creative Consultant: Ed Sherin. Art Design & Animation: Open, New York. On-Line