Screenshot of Will Pappenheimer’s “Proxy, 5-WM2A” (2014) (all images by the author for Hyperallergic)

Last night the Whitney Museum said goodbye to its Marcel Breuer building on Madison Avenue with a gala and party. There, the institution announced the opening date of its new home in the Meatpacking District — May 1, 2015 — and unveiled the last artwork commissioned for the Breuer building: an augmented reality app called “Proxy, 5-WM2A,” created by new media artist Will Pappenheimer for the occasion.

“I’m very interested in making works in technology that are specific and integrated into the place and social situation in which they take place,” Pappenheimer told Hyperallergic. “So giving out a drug works well in this way, and I have been doing a series of works that in some way pose drugs as a cure for various social problems. … So [I thought] that I could offer the Whitney community, myself included, the opportunity to ecstatically engage with and detach from the Breuer building.”....Continue Reading

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