The Fulton Fence is a temporary installation in Fulton Street, New York City on view through the spring of 2008. The project is a response to the effects of development; in particular the visual pollution created by the presence of construction sites in a small concentrated area.
The project is also online as a 'digital' site and is linked to the street intervention by signs that show a mobile barcode and a URL which can be accesed by any mobile internet-enabled device.
This website parallels the physical intervention in lower Manhattan, and explores the notion of "site" as both location and information such as the project's process, localized widgets, street history and visiting traffic statistics among others.
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I really like the look of this, although I think I would have preferred if it had been erected around and near an actual construction site.
thanks larry; one of the proposals was actually built on a construction site: a whole street on Fulton was digged up to change an 150 year old water main. they gave us the fence around the perimeter of this construction as well as a temporary pedestrian bridge over the site to work on as shown below.
Excellent!
So it is a new fashion to combine concrete and dust with some sort of punk art. I like it. But not only construction sites are like this, The museum in my hometown was flooded and after the retreat of the water they had to do some massive water damage restoration. Because they didn't wanna close up the entire museum they've covered the entrance and the first floor with all sort of bizarre pictures without people knowing they are working behind them.