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The Artist Community on Gentrification: Q & A with Justin Blinder

Posted on Monday, February 10th, 2014

Justin Blinder is another Envision New York 2017 artist whose submission addresses gentrification. Vacated uses Google Streetview to highlight the vacant lots where new buildings now stand in gentrifying neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn. The work is ephemeral in the psychical world, but online it exists long after these vacant site become shiny new luxury buildings. The result is a virtual walking tour of gentrification.

Exploring Spaces: More Art’s recent collaboration with Ofri Cnaani rediscovers the history of New York’s Meatpacking District

Posted on Tuesday, May 28th, 2013

More Art is excited to be working with internationally acclaimed, multi-media artist Ofri Cnaani for our latest project. As a dimension of the project, Cnaani has been working with a group of talented students from the Chelsea LAB School. Together, they have been re-envisioning the history of the Meatpacking district through a series of interactive,

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