The Tapestry of Travel
The Tapestry of Travel
Completed: Summer 2023
Client: MARTA Artbound, Fulton County Arts & Culture
Sector: Technology & Arts
Scope of Work: Application Design, Branding
What is the color of going home?
Over the summer of 2023, I completed a residency program with the Fulton County Public Art Futures Lab and MARTA Artbound that explored how we can make collaborative public art at scale using AI.
The problem I worked on over 14 weeks is this, in a nutshell:
MARTA Artbound commissions and installs lots of public artwork, but usually in the busiest train stations where it can have the most eyeballs
However, this excludes folks who never come through these stations, and all of the transit riders who never even enter a station.
How can we, using the power of AI + technology, give people a way to co-create artwork, from anywhere in the system?
What I did:
Built a very simple app that asks users a few questions, and then adds their answers to a predetermined AI prompt
Used the artwork created from their words is then woven into a larger digital tapestry that can be viewed by anyone inside or outside of the transit system
This happens in real-time, so that people can see how answers and the corresponding artwork changes throughout the days, weeks, and months that this project will run.
