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Commission for Blackstone Hotel
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“My City” captures Chicago’s changing lakefront as it cycles through days, seasons, and ultimately, years. Commissioned for the historic Blackstone Hotel, Lincoln Schatz’s generative portrait displays a panoramic landscape on two plasma screens situated behind the check in desk. Schatz mounted a pan/tilt/zoom robotic camera on the northeast corner of the hotel’s roof, 24 floors up, programming the camera to move in a complex series of paths, sweeping across and zooming into the vista. “My City” takes in views of Grant Park, Lake Michigan, Monroe Harbor, Millennium Park, Art Institute of Chicago, Navy Pier, Michigan Avenue, Soldier Field, and the shores of Indiana and Michigan, relaying them all to the lobby where they will accruefor a minimum of eight years. |