Walk the city streets with the haunting poetry of Public Record: Justin Hopper Brings Old and New Media Together
via POP CITY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2010
A haunting audio tour of the city’s sobering past is inhabiting the streets this summer. All you need is a cell phone to conjure the activities that took place in the shadows of 19th century Pittsburgh through a unique project called Public Record.
These were the days before plumbing, when Oliver Avenue was better known as Virgin Alley and homeless drunks raged poetic rants in the streets. Freelance writer Justin Hopper has created a multimedia art project woven from the lives of murderers such as William Kelly who stabbed another drunk at the intersection of Fifth and Sixth avenues downtown.
The technological twist is you can listen to the story as you cross the very street where it took place.
“This is a way of haunting the city itself with its own world,” explains Hopper, who also staged a visual component on the show this month on Liberty Avenue as an Old and New Media Artist-in-residence with Deeplocal and Encyclopedia Destructica…..
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