Tap
James Buckhouse, Holly Brubach, Christopher Wheeldon and Scott Snibbe
March 6 - July 27, 2002
Five Locations around Manhattan
Image courtesy of Creative Time
Tap, commissioned by Dia Center for the Arts and presented in cooperation with Creative Time, was a Palm-based wireless project offering male and female animated characters that "learned" tap dancing by taking lessons, practicing, giving recitals, and learning from each other. While digital media allows for perfect replication of data, Tap emphasized the process of repetition with a difference. It treated digital data not only as reproducible packets of information, but as seeds for new ideas that spread and evolve. As an artwork that relied on exchange, learning processes, and community, it became a metaphor for networked communication itself.
Tap could be beamed from public beaming stations designed by ORG. Creative Time took the project beyond the museum to new audiences with its public beaming stations.
Creative Time continued to delight New Yorkers with their ongoing exploration of how wireless technologies increasingly define new territory for the presentation of artist's work. Creative Time activated the public's engagement with invigorating content and a deeper awareness of our use and understanding of these emergent technologies.
Tap was available through the Creative Time Beaming Network at the following locations from March 6 - July 27, 2002:
1. Dia center for the arts
548 West 22nd Street starting March 1, 2002
2. Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave @ 75th Street during the 2002 Biennial
3. Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Union Square
33 E. 17th Street
4. Jeffrey, New York
449 W. 14th St @ 10th Ave
5. The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Ave @ 19th Street
