FOREVER PEOPLE

Role: Designer, Writer

Year: 2010 – 2011

National Award-Winning Public Art Interactive Narrative (Billboard, Phone Line)

“Forever People” is an interactive public art narrative told through a series of phone messages. The project was featured on NPR and was awarded the American Public Art Award Year in Review Award 2011.

The project was commissioned by Art in the Loop and presented on their ARTwall located at downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Audio episodes were updated every-other-week and ran for nine months.

“Forever People” is a science-fiction story about a a nameless couple sending recorded messages into the past to prevent a dystopian future.  However the two begin to use the recordings to confess their struggles of sustaining a relationship amid holographic love affairs and android rivalries.

FOREVER PEOPLE AUDIO ARCHIVE

EPISODE 1: “THE PRIMARY FEMALE PT. 1”

EPISODE 2: “JUST ANOTHER DAY FILLED WITH A BURNT RED SKY PT. 1”

EPISODE 3: “THE PRIMARY FEMALE PT. 2”

EPISODE 4: “JUST ANOTHER DAY FILLED WITH A BURNT RED SKY PT. 2”

EPISODE 5: “MEMORIES OF A FORGOTTEN PLANET”

EPISODE 6: “DATA LOSS”

EPISODE 7: “NO MORE ELECTRIC SHEEP”

EPISODE 8: “LUST DRIVES THE HEART IN AN ELECTRIC WORLD PT.1”

EPISODE 9: “ENTER THE PROGRAMMABLE MAN PT.1”

EPISODE 10: “LUST DRIVES THE HEART IN AN ELECTRIC WORLD PT.2”

EPISODE 11: “ENTER THE PROGRAMMABLE MAN PT.2”

EPISODE 12: “LUST DRIVES THE HEART IN AN ELECTRIC WORLD PT.3”

EPISODE 13: “ENTER THE PROGRAMMABLE MAN PT. 3”

EPISODE 14: “EMPTINESS AND THE NEON LOVE”

EPISODE 15: “PRIDE, PROGENY, PROCREATION”

EPISODE 16: “BROKEN PARTS”

EPISODE 17: “EXPIRATION PT. 1”

EPISODE 18: “EXPIRATION PT.2”

EPISODE 19: “THE FOREVER PEOPLE”