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An art installation at the Cesar Chavez Park in San Jose by Hargreaves associates (in their younger days!!!). The installation is by Jenny Marketou, Katie Salen


Artist Statement:

Project Description:
Everyone should be offered the opportunity to play with those maverick flying red messengers.

99 Red Balloons is a live action street game in which players control large red balloons equipped with wireless cameras that are designed to capture and record the game play. Each game is recorded and broadcast simultaneously on five flat screens located in the headquarters and lounge of the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA.

99 Red Balloons takes place in and around the grounds of the popular Cesar Chavez Plaza dedicated to community activities. The game requires players to redesign a set of fantastical mini-games in collaboration with members of the public. Nine teams with two leaders participate in each round: one plays the role of the Spy Fairy and the other that of the Aerial Navigator whose first move in the game is to convince members of the public to join their team.

Players must use their imagination to create the most transgressive version of classic street games -- from massive multiplayer to spy and hide-n-seek in the sky games -- and then convince as many people as possible to come and play. The game is recorded live by Spy Fairy cameras attached to nine of the weather balloons that broadcast the footage back to the Game Headquarters, located in the Tech Museum. At the end of the play session (45 minutes in length), all players return to the Headquarters to view footage of the games, and to vote for the Spy Fairy and Aerial Navigator team with the best solution.

Players thus also become jurors in this topsy-turvy game of change, where reinventing rules is the only way to play.

This is my new Minox B camera. It's a vintage 1960s era sub mini film camera. It still works and I would really like to shoot it however it's rather expensive to buy and process the small film these days. Plus I'm not totally sure how it works yet!

Probably not the best choice as my first foray into film cameras but the price was so perfect.