Murmur Wall

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Title: Murmur Wall
Photo Credit: Peter Prato
Lead Artist(s):

Description:

Offering a glimpse into the immediate future, Murmur Wall is an artificially intelligent, anticipatory architecture that reveals what the city is whispering, thinking, and feeling. By harvesting local online activity—via search engines and social media—Murmur Wall anticipates what will soon matter most to the city. Constructed of an intricate weave of bent steel and acrylic tubing, digital displays, and electronics, Murmur Wall allows visitors to witness data-streams coursing through the air in the form of animated LED lights and text displays. The entire structure was installed without altering or attaching to the existing wall. Viewers may contribute their own “whispers” to the wall at murmurwall.net. These real-time, anonymous digital graffiti shoot through the artwork, appearing only once and are never collected, reused, or shared. As a continuously evolving interface, Murmur Wall provides a place for the city to share, indulge, and reflect on the real-time desires—and anxieties—of its citizens.

PROJECT LOCATION

Museum/Gallery
Public Space
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
United States

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PROJECT TEAM

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Deborah Culliman
San Francisco Art Commisssion
Future Cities Lab
Jason Kelly Johnson, Nataly Gattegno, Ripon DeLeon with Jeff Maeshiro, Collin Schupman, Ji Ahn.
PROJECT DETAILS

Temporary
300,000
Grant
Private
Digital, Sculpture
Electronics, LED, Light, Metal, Plastic
2015
2016