Fulton County Arts & Culture celebrating grand opening of Public Art Futures Lab

ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) – Fulton County Arts & Tradition in partnership with MARTA Artbound, Arts and Enjoyment Atlanta and Microsoft is celebrating the start of the new Public Art Futures Lab on April 21 from noon to 2:30 p.m. at Underground Atlanta, according to a push release.

The new Community Art Futures Lab explores the connection among art and technological innovation, which will build a tech-enabled art-obtainable practical experience for the neighborhood. As a result of its partnership with Underground Atlanta, the county now has a studio space to aspect artists-in-home and an exhibition place wherever citizens and other artists can show their perform.Pursuing a review and scoring from a numerous panel consisting of members from the arts, training, and technological know-how sectors, three artists have been chosen:

Salvador Iglesias was awarded an A&E Atlanta Residency. Iglesias will discover the use of augmented actuality to increase digital indicator engagement Downtown.

Max Woo was awarded the MARTA Artbound Residency. Woo will examine electronic activity development as a software to improve bus ridership.

Eddie Farr was awarded an A&E Atlanta Residency. Farr is a musician and technologist who will benefit from website traffic and pedestrian motion knowledge to produce real-time electronic artworks.

In addition, the Fulton County awarded a few Rising Artwork + Tech Schooling Stipends to TeMika Grooms, DeSitaa Lipscomb and Jamaali Lipscomb. Grooms will carry on her exploration of combined actuality though the Lipscomb sister and brother duo will check out NFTs and interactive media purposes. Stipend recipients will share their awareness with the arts neighborhood through the Lab’s educational programming.

The Fulton County Community Artwork Futures Lab and its companions joined forces to build an Artist-in-Residency Software designed to offer opportunities for artists exploring rising forms of creativeness by way of the software of technologies to tackle true environment challenges.

The intention of the Public Art Futures Lab is to make sure Fulton County Government and the Atlanta region get a countrywide purpose in foremost the broader adoption of technological know-how in the arts.

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