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Artist, Osman Khan, Interactive Developer, Chris Natale, and Internet Marketing Company, Elliance, in conjunction with the August Wilson Center for African American Culture have collaborated to create an participatory installation that explores the pulse of Pittsburgh’s citizenry. Theh installation is located in the window front of the August Wilson Center. Onlookers are encouraged to voice their personal response to the prompts “I want”, “I need” by calling a particular number on their cellphones. Their answers are added to other peoples responses through a dynamic animated projection onto a screen in the window. Thus a collective archive emerges, at times humorous, at times sad, at times profound, at times banal, an evolving document of the desires and despairs of the people of Pittsburgh. Interested participants may send a text message beginning with I want or I need to 79649 We are hopeful that President Barack Obama will come to the August Wilson Center. And if he does, this is a picture … Continue reading

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On September 24-25, 2009 the G-20 Summit will take place in the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, where G-20 leaders, representing 80% of the world’s trade and two-thirds of the world population, will determine policies affecting our economic and financial futures. To foster engagement despite the insularity of these talks, Osman Khan, an artist, and our team at Elliance, are collaborating to develop heyG20 as a forum that will allow concerned citizen’s of the world to voice their thoughts and opinions to the Leaders of the G20 Summit. The project is an interactive installation that will take place during the G-20 Summit in the windows of Elliance’s offices located directly across the river from the Pittsburgh Convention Center. Interested participants may tweet their message to @heyG20 (http://twitter.com/heyG20), whereby their messages will be transformed to a multicolored morse code light show, illuminating not only the night sky but also the concerns of the world’s citizens. The morse code project … Continue reading

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The White House has announced that it will hold an inauguration dinner at the upcoming G-20 summit in Pittsburgh at our Client, The Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. “President Obama will host a working dinner for world leaders at the Phipps, chosen in part because of the green-friendly features of the facility that include an earth-sheltered welcome center and a Tropical Forest Conservatory described as the world’s most energy efficient.” Pittsburgh Business Times There is an interesting story behind this. Over a year ago, Phipps chose Elliance to build a beautiful website that will move their revenue needle with a marked increase in attendance, memberships, classes, and venue rentals. During our discovery process, we un-covered a latent desire that was being championed solely by Phipp’s visionary Executive Director, Richard Piacentini. He wants Phipps to become a national icon, and wants it to be nationally known as “The center for sustainable gardening”, not unlike how Monterey Bay Aquarium had taken a … Continue reading

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Help us ring in the new year by sharing your warmest hopes and dreams with the world. Share your hopes at: 2009Hopes.com Best Wishes, Your friends at Elliance

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In 2008, Pittsburgh will mark its 250th anniversary with a yearlong celebration. With the anniversary approaching, we thought about all the voices and ideas in Pittsburgh, and about Pittsburgh’s enormous potential still to be realized.We decided to challenge the region to look forward, and ask: What do you want Pittsburgh to be like in the year 2050? One year later, we have aggregated the most popular ideas shared by the community, and converted them into 5 posters which were published in the Pittsburgh Technology Magazine TEQ. Enjoy! If you need someone to build cool interactive experiences or beautiful infographics, contact us.

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