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Guest performers work with MAW to create a rendition of "Colonial Chicken Love" (working title).

Link to High Quality Video here.

Participants use the touchable iPod interface to transition the many varied heads of Unkle Sinan.

MAW is a vehicle for activating public spaces with large-scale projections of sound and video. MAW develops software, hardware and methodologies for participatory urban projection, and helps artists and community organizations utilize these instruments to creatively claim and transform public spaces. MAW disseminates these instruments and works with artists interested in technology to promote mobile public projection. MAW aims to connect patrons with artists and artists with communities through commissioning programs. Commissioning programs are tailored to the needs of a specific event and include performances on-demand, training of artist with a mission, and collaborative development of public performance events sought by community organizations.

Commissioning paradigms include:
-Patron commissioning MAW for live-projection performance events
-Community organization commissioning MAW for live-projection performance events
-Community organization commissioning artist interested in working with MAW's instruments
-MAW commissioning artists to create works that become part of MAW's repertoire

MAW's activities include: public performances and interventions, experimental audio-visual works, interactive mobile media experiences or novel open source software instruments or performance tools.  

For a quick tour of MAW, watch Make:TV's profile of Minneapolis Art on Wheels and its founder.

Minneapolis Art on Wheels projection outing during Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art. The statements are a poetic reaction to Pres. Obama's tone towards Muslims and the Middle East in his inauguration speech.