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Project Description::

Trash talk is an installation involving ordinary objects found on the streets of New York City. These items will be outfitted with carefully hidden motors, motion sensors, and small sound systems, giving them the ability to react with slight movements and noises to individuals who enter their territory. The pieces will respond to intruders subtly at first, with slight twitches, shudders, and sounds, reactions enticing to an observant eye but easy to miss on a busy city street. Viewers will be directly rewarded for their curiosity; the more time that they spend investigating this surreal scene, the more exaggerated the responses of the items will become. Each item will have a distinct “personality”, established by specific movements or noises, some more subtle then others.

Trash Talk presents its viewers with the unexpected, surprising and startling it’s audience through the anthropomorphic traits of the modified objects. Onlookers who stumble across this installation will be forced to reevaluate their everyday surroundings, shifting the familiar into a new context. The purpose of Trash Talk is not only to amuse onlookers, but also to remind them that exciting things can be discovered in the streets that they pass through everyday, if only they take the time to look.

(This project was originally conceived by Chris Cerrito, David Overholt, and EJ Park.)