MARC HOROWITZ & PETER BALDES
Google Maps Road Trip (NYC)
Date: Saturday 9.19
Start Time: 2:00pm
Location: Rm. 101, Barney building
Marc Horowitz and Peter Baldes will perform a live virtual trip of NYC, in the vain of their recent cross-county Google Maps Road Trip project. They will take suggestions from the audience on what to visit and do on this journey. They will utilize google maps to navigate around, ustream.tv to broadcast the event live on the internet, youtube to see various NYC videos, and flickr to explore still images of the city.
Marc Horowitz is an artist, actor, writer, filmmaker, comic, and internet celebrity based in Los Angeles, California. In 2005, Marc gained national attention while working on a catalog shoot for Crate and Barrel. He wrote “Dinner w/Marc” along with his cell number on a dry-erase board featured in a home office shot for the catalog. When the catalog was distributed, Marc received more than 30,000 phone calls. He spent the following year driving across the country and having dinner with individuals that had called. This project was aptly named “The National Dinner Tour”. He was also given the distinction by People magazine to be added to their list of the “50 Most Eligible Bachelors”. Marc was featured in Nissan’s popular national ad campaign, “Seven Days in a Sentra,” where he lived in a 2007 Nissan Sentra for seven days. This unique campaign was written about in the New York Times Business section and AdWeek.
Pete Baldes studied photography and sculpture at suny albany before attending Alfred University’s integrated electronic arts program for his mfa. He then stumbled, happily, into a full time teaching gig in VCU’s painting and printmaking dept.
