Fulton Fence

I just read about this today over at Core77, and you can bet that I’ll be down there in the next week or so to take a look. The project is part of the Re:Construction Program, an art program taking place in lower Manhattan. The Fulton Fence was completed by three Venezuelan designers: Mateo Pinto, Carolina Cisneros, and Carlos Gomez de Llarena.

The purpose of the Re:Construction Program, and therefore the Fulton Fence, is to “clean up” the visual pollution of public constructions sites by introducing them as canvasses for emerging artists. (Funny how without permission, they just call that graffiti…) The most interesting part of the project, though, is the online component. As part of the piece, the team will continually be building a web-based project, which…takes the form of a continually scrolling web page….Just as the physical installation weaves elements of vernacular construction materials into the frame of the fence, the website will embed media driven ‘interventions’: process documentation, location information, online widget mash-ups, and mobile downloads among others. Check out the progress and online component at fultonfence.net.