Virtual Street Corners

This is the most brilliant project I have seen in a long time!

In an effort to bridge gaps between two neighborhoods of Boston, digital media artist John Ewing created the public art project Virtual Street Corners. The project, set to unveil June 2010, uses live video feeds between Boston suburbs Brookline and Roxbury to encourage neighborly affection between the predominantly African-American and Jewish neighborhoods.

In conversations with the public, Ewing found people kept to their own neighborhoods, rarely venturing beyond familiar stomping grounds. Virtual Street Corners aims to mediate that disconnect by using video and microphones to encourage virtual dialogue.

via Cool Hunting