January 07, 2019

Public art is very public - 500 ft underpass in Austin

January 07, 2019/ Laurie Frick

I thought I understood how it felt to make large scale pieces and have strangers see your work. But nothing fully prepared me for installing a 500 ft underpass (that’s almost 2 football fields) - people stopped and yelled thankyou out their car window, and beeped their horn to give a thumbs-up. A heavy traffic spot that was really grim has turned into an spot that makes you smile.

This past weekend my husband and I (he’s amazing) went and took care of all the weeds and blew all the debris off the sidewalk. Tidiness counts!

Video by Christian Bruncsak is pretty great, amazing photography + the drone shots from above are incredible. Massive thanks to the City of Austin, Cultural Arts and especially Art in Public Places. Love you lots.

LAURIE FRICK

Data artist exploring the future of data about you.

Email me at: laurie@lauriefrick.com

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December 2021
- Dec 12, 2021 Lexus asked me to make art about a new car Dec 12, 2021
April 2021
- Apr 3, 2021 Vaccinated, installing art across the country Apr 3, 2021
December 2020
- Dec 13, 2020 How does data tell a story with large scale physical art installations Dec 13, 2020
June 2020
- Jun 21, 2020 Glass and the pandemic Jun 21, 2020
March 2019
- Mar 11, 2019 Women in the arts Mar 11, 2019
January 2019
- Jan 7, 2019 Public art is very public - 500 ft underpass in Austin Jan 7, 2019
December 2018
- Dec 19, 2018 I've discovered you can dye things Dec 19, 2018
September 2018
- Sep 16, 2018 Don’tcha love a time-lapse? Sep 16, 2018
August 2018
- Aug 19, 2018 Why being tall as a kid made me curious about the future. TEDx 2018 clip. Aug 19, 2018
February 2018
- Feb 18, 2018 Friend nutrition -- who to see, know, ignore Feb 18, 2018
November 2017
- Nov 4, 2017 Why is this not data visualization? Show me the data. Nov 4, 2017
September 2017
- Sep 4, 2017 Friend Nutrition: who to see, know, ignore... Sep 4, 2017
August 2017
- Aug 2, 2017 Relationships are ripe for machine learning Aug 2, 2017
October 2016
- Oct 28, 2016 How do your friends affect you? #friendtracking for TEDxLA experiment! Oct 28, 2016
August 2016
- Aug 17, 2016 I want my data, I want what I wanted as a little kid, to understand who I could become... Aug 17, 2016
May 2016
- May 14, 2016 Prediction: who you hang out with will become like diet and exercise May 14, 2016
March 2016
- Mar 13, 2016 What if art made itself... the art version of a self-driving car. Mar 13, 2016
November 2015
- Nov 5, 2015 Grow your own art... as wall texture from data collected about you. Nov 5, 2015
August 2015
- Aug 16, 2015 I rebuilt my website ....completely Aug 16, 2015
July 2015
- Jul 30, 2015 Technology will disrupt the art-world, just not in the way you think Jul 30, 2015
May 2015
- May 15, 2015 Personal data beginning to feel less sinister May 15, 2015
March 2015
- Mar 17, 2015 Will a data-selfie boost your immune system? Mar 17, 2015
- Mar 11, 2015 The tyranny of tiny tasks Mar 11, 2015
February 2015
- Feb 24, 2015 Time is both squishy and stretchy Feb 24, 2015
January 2015
- Jan 2, 2015 Do you feel bad about how you spend your time? Jan 2, 2015
November 2014
- Nov 1, 2014 FRICKbits is live!! It's free, no catch. Download it now. Nov 1, 2014
September 2014
- Sep 7, 2014 Holy crap... you did something great! Sep 7, 2014
August 2014
- Aug 31, 2014 FRICKbits? Where did this come from? Aug 31, 2014
- Aug 15, 2014 FRICKbits - press release Aug 15, 2014
- Aug 12, 2014 Take back my data... will art be the beginning of a data revolution? Aug 12, 2014
- Aug 9, 2014 Launching a kickstarter for FRICKbits tomorrow! Aug 9, 2014
July 2014
- Jul 31, 2014 How many things can you work on simultaneously? Jul 31, 2014
June 2014
- Jun 21, 2014 Floating Data piece during installation Jun 21, 2014
- Jun 18, 2014 Art from data slides, and why my motto is don't hide...get more Jun 18, 2014
- Jun 6, 2014 "Don't hide....get more" my motto for the new data transparency Jun 6, 2014
April 2014
- Apr 10, 2014 The beginning of collecting personal data Apr 10, 2014
- Apr 6, 2014 Don't hide....go get more (data about yourself) Apr 6, 2014
- Apr 4, 2014 Quantified Self meets a company of designers and developers... Apr 4, 2014
March 2014
- Mar 31, 2014 Creative Mornings in Austin Mar 31, 2014
- Mar 9, 2014 A genius from SXSW 2014 Mar 9, 2014
- Mar 1, 2014 The beginning of collecting personal data....part 1 Mar 1, 2014
February 2014
- Feb 10, 2014 A data portrait of a company Feb 10, 2014
- Feb 6, 2014 3 artists describe the show at Texas State University (Jan-Feb 2014) Feb 6, 2014
- Feb 2, 2014 ...one of the things Austin lets you do is reinvent yourself. Feb 2, 2014
January 2014
- Jan 17, 2014 New media uses handwritten questionnaire for interview Jan 17, 2014
November 2013
- Nov 21, 2013 What will all your personal data add up to? Nov 21, 2013
October 2013
- Oct 16, 2013 Art magazines beginning to write about Quantified-Self art...flip to p7 Oct 16, 2013
September 2013
- Sep 14, 2013 Art + Neuroscience = Laurie Frick Sep 14, 2013
- Sep 8, 2013 Marfa Contemporary | Oklahoma Contemporary: Walking, Eating, Sleeping show catalog Sep 8, 2013
August 2013
- Aug 20, 2013 Making work Aug 20, 2013
July 2013
- Jul 1, 2013 Austin scientist self-tracking experiment includes 3x weekly brain scan Jul 1, 2013
June 2013
- Jun 21, 2013 Walk thru the installation at OK Contemporary in about a minute Jun 21, 2013
May 2013
- May 22, 2013 Experiments in self-tracking - article in Second Sight May 22, 2013
April 2013
- Apr 21, 2013 Will our 'digital social pulse' diagnose and predict our behaviour? Apr 21, 2013
- Apr 5, 2013 5 questions Apr 5, 2013
March 2013
- Mar 16, 2013 Artify...will we talk about artification - same as we talk about gamification? Mar 16, 2013
February 2013
- Feb 25, 2013 Don't fear your phone watching you (the art of self-surveillance)....my TED talk from TEDxAustin Feb 25, 2013
January 2013
- Jan 4, 2013 Data becomes physical: data --> art --> 3D printing Jan 4, 2013
December 2012
- Dec 16, 2012 Texas Biennial catalog from last year just came online Dec 16, 2012
November 2012
- Nov 28, 2012 What if you could see exactly where you've been... Nov 28, 2012
October 2012
- Oct 5, 2012 10 things I learned from measuring 600 nights of sleep Oct 5, 2012
September 2012
- Sep 14, 2012 How to color code your zeo sleep data Sep 14, 2012
- Sep 9, 2012 Keeping track of yourself Sep 9, 2012
July 2012
- Jul 2, 2012 Fantasy future where wall texture is built from data about YOU Jul 2, 2012
June 2012
- Jun 11, 2012 3D printing - yes, absolutely we'll live in spaces with wall texture built from patterns of OUR self-tracking data Jun 11, 2012
- Jun 7, 2012 Smart people are out there Jun 7, 2012
- Jun 1, 2012 Self-tracking dashboard....handbuilt Jun 1, 2012
March 2012
- Mar 17, 2012 Researchers mapping the connectome might find the connection between neural patterns and how you experience the world Mar 17, 2012
- Mar 1, 2012 See the full installation of 'Death and Life of an Object' at Edward Cella (I come in at 3.30). Up til Mar 31, 2012 Mar 1, 2012
February 2012
- Feb 9, 2012 Can color capture your mood better than words? Feb 9, 2012
- Feb 1, 2012 Slides for the art-talk! Feb 1, 2012
January 2012
- Jan 31, 2012 First you make, make, make....then you talk, talk, talk. Jan 31, 2012
- Jan 14, 2012 KUT - NPR in Austin created a short arts story Jan 14, 2012
November 2011
- Nov 29, 2011 10 minute talk at Quantified-Self meetup in San Francisco - Oct 2011 Nov 29, 2011
- Nov 22, 2011 How do we ....really count and translate numbers? Nov 22, 2011
October 2011
- Oct 15, 2011 Quantify-me - timelapse of installation at the Headlands Center for the Arts Oct 15, 2011
- Oct 2, 2011 Beginnings of the 'Quantify-me' installation at the Headlands Oct 2, 2011
September 2011
- Sep 17, 2011 Sleep, self-tracking and art-making....you can pan/zoom and flip thru the slides quick here Sep 17, 2011
August 2011
- Aug 31, 2011 Quantifying-me: what if the the walls produced ambient patterns of how I'm doing? Aug 31, 2011
July 2011
- Jul 28, 2011 Use the blog to document an idea..... the bio-art-wall Jul 28, 2011
- Jul 26, 2011 Wavelet coherence - nice tools for visualizing patterns Jul 26, 2011
May 2011
- May 28, 2011 Am experimenting with a way to capture human pattern, quickly reconfigure, send it for free to your phone May 28, 2011
- May 24, 2011 More on sleep patterns - video of preso at Quantified Self meet-up in New York May 24, 2011
- May 15, 2011 "I'm on the radiooooo" May 15, 2011
April 2011
- Apr 19, 2011 When everything is perfectly in time, the mind tends to ignore it. Apr 19, 2011
March 2011
- Mar 26, 2011 Clearest explanation possible for brain rhythm and sleep patterns in 3 minutes Mar 26, 2011
- Mar 22, 2011 Reviewed in honest-to-goodness-SCIENCE-magazine Mar 22, 2011
- Mar 21, 2011 Neural rhythms - symbiosis of visual pattern and internal neural pattern.... Mar 21, 2011
February 2011
- Feb 23, 2011 Art-talk on Saturday with Laurie Frick and Stephen Nowlin, Feb 26 at 4pm Feb 23, 2011
- Feb 12, 2011 4 days of installation at Edward Cella Feb 2011 Feb 12, 2011
January 2011
- Jan 25, 2011 Solo show at Edward Cella in Los Angeles, opening Sat Feb 12, 6-8p thru April 2. Jan 25, 2011
- Jan 15, 2011 Sleep holds secrets - night rhythms not so different than waking rhythms Jan 15, 2011
December 2010
- Dec 17, 2010 3 hypothesis about relationship of art and science Dec 17, 2010
- Dec 5, 2010 Abstract statistical pattern underlies all knowledge Dec 5, 2010
November 2010
- Nov 17, 2010 Stop motion video of pattern crumbling - 7 stages, 6 categories, 264 ALS patients Nov 17, 2010
- Nov 16, 2010 Maybe talking head video can explain it better than words Nov 16, 2010
October 2010
- Oct 8, 2010 External preference for pattern matches internal brain structure? Oct 8, 2010
July 2010
- Jul 23, 2010 Do we crave the staccato beat of the internet? Jul 23, 2010
- Jul 22, 2010 Serotonin and the sense of well-being from art objects Jul 22, 2010
June 2010
- Jun 18, 2010 Imagining a predictive model of aesthetics Jun 18, 2010
- Jun 5, 2010 Brain scans for configurable art Jun 5, 2010
April 2010
- Apr 27, 2010 Taste buds = aesthetic taste? Apr 27, 2010
March 2010
- Mar 23, 2010 Randomness and the brain's search for patterns Mar 23, 2010
- Mar 9, 2010 The brain is mainly an image processing system Mar 9, 2010
January 2010
- Jan 21, 2010 More on neuroaesthetics Jan 21, 2010
- Jan 16, 2010 Why do you like what you like Jan 16, 2010
December 2009
- Dec 29, 2009 Art that targets the inner mind Dec 29, 2009
November 2009
- Nov 19, 2009 Evidence of non-conscious processing Nov 19, 2009
September 2009
- Sep 23, 2009 Your brain doesn't have arms, legs and toes Sep 23, 2009
August 2009
- Aug 25, 2009 This is your brain on Picasso Aug 25, 2009
- Aug 25, 2009 The familiar and the novel....and the tension between the two Aug 25, 2009
July 2009
- Jul 28, 2009 How much organization is enough? Jul 28, 2009
- Jul 21, 2009 Old posts Jul 21, 2009

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