The 59th Minute

ARTISTS

MARINA ZURKOW, SCOTT PATERSON & JULIAN BLEECKER

Creative Time and Panasonic, in cooperation with the Times Square Business Improvement District, present PDPal (a.k.a Personal Digital Pal), conceived and created by artist Marina Zurkow, architect Scott Paterson, and technologist Julian Bleecker. Guided by the streetwise and witty Urban Park Ranger (UPR), PDPal is a multi-component public art project that allows audiences to map their own 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

Featuring a 60-second animation of the Urban Park Ranger's imagined Times Square, PDPal on the Astrovision will inspire other PDPal users and provide a playful respite from Times Square's marketing madness. In the animation, the UPR charges us to "write your own city" and, as a human torso in the background ingests diamonds, rings, cherries, and computers, to "map your taste for consumption."

PDPAL
September 01, 2003 - January 20, 2004