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Creative Time and Panasonic, in cooperation with the Times Square Business Improvement District, present PDPal (a.k.a. Personal Digital Pal), conceived by artist Marina Zurkow, architect Scott Paterson, and technologist Julian Bleecker with web implementation and collaboration by Adam Chapman. Guided by the streetwise and witty Urban Park Ranger (UPR), PDPal is a multi-platform public art project that allows audiences to map their personal vision of a public space—in this case, Times Square. PDPal bridges the digital and physical worlds with its three locations: The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) beaming stations, and pdpal.com. PDPal launches in Times Square and online on October 9 and will run through December 12, 2003.
For information on the PDA application, beaming stations, pdpal.com and the paper maps
For information on PDPal as part of the 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision
Special Thanks and Credits
Press
PDPal Merchandise
What constitutes your experience of New York City or of any place? Moreover, what constitutes place? PDPal is a multi-platform mapping tool for Times Square, and a forum where daydreams, memories, or simple observations can be recorded and shared with others. With PDPal, users can chart physical, subjective and, perhaps, emotional coordinates–whether your admiration of landmark buildings, fleeting sidewalk encounters, or impromptu personal fantasies. A digital diary in which to log the sensory impressions we experience at any given moment in Times Square, PDPal heightens our awareness to the social systems and the physical environment in which we live. Initially developed at the Eyebeam Atelier artist residency program, PDPal was co-commissioned by Creative Time and the Walker Art Center, which currently features PDPal in the museum sculpture garden.
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