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Jenny Holzer App to Bring ‘Great Books’ Home
For decades, the artist Jenny Holzer has projected phrases — often borrowed sayings — on surfaces such as building facades, ocean waves and mountains. But her new project, called “You Be My Ally” after a line by Sappho, includes her first smartphone app designed to let users at home superimpose some loaded quotes on their own surroundings. — Jori Finkel, The New York Times
Chicago students help Jenny Holzer get out the vote
Young citizens, many of them voting in their first presidential election, provide phrases to be shown on LED billboard trucks across the city. - Ruth Lopez, The Art Newspaper
How Does Jenny Holzer Get the Rights for All the Texts She Uses in Her Artwork? + Other Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered
I’m enthralled with Jenny Holzer’s new app, which allows you to recreate one of those pieces where she projects words onto buildings….My question is: How does she get the rights to all those words? - Katerina Feder, artnet news
With Augmented Reality, You Can Now Superimpose Publicly Exhibited Artworks in Your Home
Museums and galleries have been exhibiting site-specific augmented reality works by artists for a few years, but the University of Chicago is one of a handful of global institutions taking AR one step further during the pandemic—to bring publicly exhibited artworks directly into people’s homes. - Kathryn Tully, Smithsonian Magazine
Chicago architecture and virtual projections come together in a new project by Jenny Holzer, EX’74
Jenny Holzer, EX’74, rarely gives lectures. She seldom agrees to interviews. She prefers to let her artwork speak for itself. - Carrie Golus, UChicago Magazine
Renowned artist Jenny Holzer to debut project at UChicago using augmented reality
The text-based artwork is Holzer’s first augmented reality (AR) project using virtual projections in the United States and her first work created in collaboration with a university’s students and faculty. - UChicago News
Building ideas: Students help reimagine Core texts in renowned alum Jenny Holzer’s innovative artwork
“This project has been incredibly rewarding in so many ways,” Nasser said. “The fact that this is happening during a pandemic is especially significant for me, because it’s made me feel connected to the UChicago experience in a really profound way—both architecturally and by engaging with the texts that have informed so much of my thinking.” - UChicago News
Jenny Holzer’s "You Be My Ally" Walks a Core Less Common
From the recalibration of the College canon’s demographics, to her personal history with the Core, even to the diminutive effect of the A.R. on the language and the architecture, Holzer creates a version of the Core that doesn’t quite align with UChicago’s. - Suzanna Murawski, The Chicago Maroon
Jenny Holzer Debuts Timely Virtual Public Artwork 'You Be My Ally' in Chicago
‘You Be My Ally’ invites viewers to interact with their surroundings and forge new cultural and architectural meanings from the dichotomy of historic texts and lived urban environments. - designboom
Plenty of Museum Shows Worth Seeing this Fall
The first augmented realty work in the U.S by renowned text-based artist Jenny Holzer will be viewable on University of Chicago’s Hyde Park campus this fall and via app, at time, on nearby streets. - Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune
New Jenny Holzer installation to debut at U. of C., using campus architecture as surface for projections
The University of Chicago will play host to a new public art project by Jenny Holzer, a conceptual artist best known for her text-based light projections. - Christian Belanger, Hyde Park Herald
Jenny Holzer Makes an App
The University of Chicago commissioned the artist to create an app that lets users project 29 thought-provoking quotes onto their surroundings through the magic of augmented reality. - artnet news
Human Rights Core Featured in Jenny Holzer Augmented Reality Project
…(T)his week—and students enrolled in the Pozen Center’s Human Rights in World Civilizations Core sequence will be looking up at some familiar words projected against the campus’s impressive buildings. - Pozen Center for Human Rights Blog
YOU BE MY ALLY get-out-the-vote trucks prepare to drive through Chicago - Fox32 Chicago
Mobile U of C art exhibit aims to 'get out the vote' in 2020 election - ABC7 Chicago
Press Release - September 10, 2020
The University of Chicago (UChicago) will debut a new public art commission by world-renowned artist and alumna Jenny Holzer (EX’74), YOU BE MY ALLY, premiering October 5 on the UChicago campus and worldwide through a web-based augmented reality app. The textbased artwork is Holzer’s first augmented reality (AR) project using virtual projections in the United States and her first work created in collaboration with a university’s students and faculty.