Artists have always done projects in the public space. The digital public space creates not only a new platform to perform, but is in itself a possible object of artistic interpretation.

Lu Leiping works for Hipic.org, a non-profit art project that collects digital pictures. Anyone can send their pictures from anywhere to the database and give them a 1-minute life. They appear on the Hipic-webiste, on fysical screens that are hung in the public spaces, and on virtual screens in Second Life or other websites. The screens show 1,440 pictures a day but never the same. This means Hipic can show the same pictures simultaneously at any place in the world.

Video below: talk by Lu Leiping at ‘Designing the Hybrid City’