The art itself is fleeting & transitory, but in what promises to be a potent example of multimedia harvesting and display, the web's going to collect and arrange. A virtual attempt to recapture & preserve the experience. Visit gatesmemory.org for more:

The Institute for the Future of the Book and Flickr.com issued a call today for photos and stories documenting Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Gates Project in New York's Central Park. Using Flickr's unique photo-sharing platform, the Institute for the Future of the Book will gather pictures of the Gates from anyone and everyone who wants to contribute. The aim is to harness the creativity and insight of thousands to build a kind of collective memory machine - one that is designed not just for the moment, but as a lasting and definitive document of the Gates and our experience of them. "The photographs are a jumping off point for further exploration," says Ben Vershbow of the institute. "Ultimately, we are interested in collecting anything that can be shared over the web - film, audio, text - parodies and remixes."

Visit gatesmemory.org to contribute your media or to suggest ideas for presenting the collection.

via BoingBoing.


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