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Look!: Wegman's TV Stands in Madison Square Park

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Happening on these outdoor television screens at Madison Square Park, we were taken with their simplicity. Aside from the video being displayed (a William Wegman installation) the panels almost don't look electronic. They look like they could have sprouted right out of the ground like the beautiful plants throughout the park.

 
 

No wires, no boxes. None of that ugly stuff we're always battling at home is visible on these outdoor display panels. We're impressed and encourage anyone passing by to stop and have a look.

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Almost don't look electronic, beautiful plants, sprouting?

Maybe they appear that way in person but on the above image, they're more than ugly. Nothing organic-looking at all.

posted by SeanG on September 20th 2007 at 6:43am
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Yeah, I'm kind of mystified. They look like televisions outside?

posted by Monkeyme on September 20th 2007 at 6:47am
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as much as i like Wegman i find this very disappointing. one of the reasons i go to parks to get AWAY from television. this is ugly and i hope not the start of a trend.

posted by Kat1 on September 20th 2007 at 7:00am
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They appeared during the US Open festivities (along with a tennis batting cage and a projector of the main match of the day).

Please oh please tell the Conservancy to get rid of them!
info@madisonsquarepark.org

posted by chumley on September 20th 2007 at 7:53am
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just went to go look at them at lunch. they are nothing to look at.

posted by miss on September 20th 2007 at 9:33am
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It sort of reminds me of advertising monitors you see in airports...I don't get this at all, unless he's got some good Weimaraner dog video action happening on them.

posted by ehy2k on September 20th 2007 at 9:46am
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I will make an attempt to see this if I get the chance, was disappointed to miss the big Wegman show that happened recently.. I do think electronic art can intrude on the outdoors. When I was at Wave Hill there was a recording of repetitive bird song fragments that were motion activated and quickly became irritating. I wondered how real birds were affected by the bizarre vocalizations. This doesn't look like part of the garden to me but I guess it gives people a free art experience. I would enjoy encountering some Wegman and having a shake.

posted by Kate (NC) on September 20th 2007 at 11:40am
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Rain?

posted by Jon_B on September 20th 2007 at 12:06pm
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A thought provoking installation. Those flat screens remind of me indoor life, where reminders of life outdoors are enhancing (house plants, stone, wood.) Outdoors among the trees and plants, the reminders of indoor life (flatscreens) are hideous.

posted by PPan on September 21st 2007 at 1:43am
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