July 14, 2020
WAVE, a video work created by G.O.N.G. – a team of our artist friends/collaborators – is being shown in Times Square in a message of support for essential health care workers, as part of a citywide public art campaign organized by Times Square Arts, Poster House, Print Magazine, and For Freedoms. This campaign, Messages for the City, features artist-designed PSAs and messages of love, gratitude, and solidarity with New York City’s health care and essential workers.
WAVE was designed to express gratitude to our essential workers—especially healthcare workers. Words of appreciation honor these individuals with poetry, translated to cymatic (visible sound) imagery, expanding this intention beyond the limitation of words.
WAVE is a convergence of science and art that broadcasts a heartfelt message, reflecting how each one of us, individually and collectively as a society, are deeply indebted for the sacrifices being made by those on the frontlines, as well as recognition of those enduring painful loss at this time.
G.O.N.G. (Gathering of Noetic Generation) and the idea for WAVE formed during a call with artist Mel Chin and a team of artists who have previously collaborated with the Fundred Project and Mel Chin Studio.
Artists include 2019 MacArthur Fellow Mel Chin (Egypt, NC), whose 2018 show “All Over the Place” covered 5 boroughs of NYC including Times Square; Jacob Brault (Athens, GA), Visual Artist; Pat Clifford (Cincinnati, OH), social worker and consultant for community based organizations and collaboratives; Fabiola R Delgado (Washington, DC), Museum Professional and Independent Curator; Maps Glover (Washington, DC), performance, painter, multi-media artist; Dawne Langford (NYC / Washington DC), independent documentary producer and curator/founder of Quota Arts; Ben Premeaux (Charlotte, NC), artist and Filmmaker at The smARTlab media; MichaelAngelo Rodriguez (Washington, DC), artist working with photography and poetry; Amanda Wiles (Marshall, NC), artist and Director of Fundred Project and S.O.U.R.C.E. Studio; Elijah Williamson (Washington, DC), artist and designer; Naoko Wowsugi (Washington, DC), conceptual artist and faculty, American University. Sound made visible imagery by CymaScope.com, founded by acoustics engineer and pioneer John Stuart Reid.
Final artwork was produced with translations and voices of Didi Bertrand, Audrey Liu, Tamalyn Miller, Fabiola R. Delgado, Haun Saussy, Olga Solovieva., sound made visible imagery by CymaScope.com, post-production by Ben Premeaux of The smARTlab, and support from S.O.U.R.C.E. Studio.
Read more about Messages for the City at Times Square Arts.