Gregory Green Gregnik Proto II
About the Exhibition
Forty years to the day after the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into space, artist Gregory Green (b. 1961, Grand Rapids, MI) installed Gregnik Proto II, a prototype radio transmitter meticulously modeled after the original Sputnik satellite, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Mounted on a rooftop and visible from street level, this silver orb with five antennas appears to hover above the neighborhood and broadcasts unedited artist-created messages over a low frequency fm radio signal to Williamsburg residents.
Photo Gallery
Gregnik Proto II is a project of Public Art Fund’s In the Public Realm program, a series of site-specific proposals and projects by emerging New York artists.
In the Public Realm is supported with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency, and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, and through generous support from the Greenwall Foundation, the Heathcote Foundation, the Silverweed Foundation and friends of the Public Art Fund.
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