Hans Haacke's poster project - white posters featuring negative space of the World Trade Center towers' silhouettes - commemorates
September 11th. Starting on the six-month anniversary of the attacks through March 25, 2002, Haacke's posters appeared on scaffolding
and media walls across the City with remnants of previous posters occupying the void of the missing towers. Haacke's project reminds us
that the events of September 11th have created a filter through which we experience and measure our everyday realities.

To extend the gesture to the surface of our computer desktops the project is available online as a downloadable desktop application.
In the desktop version, screen-savers, browsers, files, and applications become the shadows of the World Trade Center towers.

The Haacke project is Creative Time's second poster campaign in response to September 11th. The medium bears particular relevance for
a public art project due to its widespread public visibility and historic implementation by artists.

Hans Haacke is an artist based in New York. For decades, he has produced challenging works that focus on interaction and conflict,
both in nature and in society - how they affect our visual culture, and thereby our sense of the world.


Special thanks:   Daniel Radovanovic (PC)     David Frenkiel (MAC)     HONEST     Vardit Gross     Anne Marie Rogers JRI/NPR     Jessica Sucher


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