The Plan

The purpose is to allow people to participate in the creation of art. The "art" is trying to reveal what traffic cameras say about my city, Cedar Rapids.

I've chosen 16 cars, 4 for each city quadrant (NE, SE, SW, NW) and determined 1 starting point, the 10th Street & 1st Avenue E intersection (will call the GATE) where the first traffic camera was installed. ALL CARS MUST BE REGISTERED. No unregistered cars will be used.

1. Outfit each car with a GPS tracking device that will report in real time the streets being driven.

2. Create software that will "cut-out" streets "block-by-block" as driven by the participating cars.

3. Set a simultaneous start time for all cars to enter the process through the GATE.

4. Over a set period of time, show the "cutting-out" of Cedar Rapids in real time via a website. The cut-out streets would be "blacked-out." As all streets surrounding a city block are cut-out, then that block gets blacked-out.

5. The final resulting image of the transformed map will be the ART. It will be realized into a standalone artwork and donated to the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art or other like institution.

Any car that looses its registration or leaves the city, can be replaced by another Registered Vehicle. Replacement vehicles should come from same quadrant.

I also have a thought about I380. I will post that next.