project title
Human-Scale Chess Game
project description
A cellphone-directed chess game which happens in real time with humans acting as the pieces and the grid of southside williamsburg as the chess board. Chess experts will be playing an actual game of chess in a central location. As they move the pieces from square to square on their board, I will be calling the corresponding humans on a cellphone to tell them which intersection to walk/ride/move to.
This will be the fourth staging of the human scale chess game. I've staged three others on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, in San Francisco's Mission district, and in Vancouver. The game has been covered by the New York Times, the SF Weekly, and CTV in Canada.
name
Sharilyn Neidhardt
location
Brooklyn, New York
profile
Sharilyn Neidhardt is a painter and conceptual artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She is the founder of the Williamsburg Chess Club for Wayward Men and Ladies. She is an active participant in several online communities, including fotolog.net and diaryland.com. She is one-half of the electronic music act Weapons of Mass Destruction.
links
human scale chess page
human chess fotolog
Williamsburg Chess Club for Wayward Men and Ladies
sharilyn's fotolog
weapons of mass destruction
sharilyn's paintings
