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À LOUER / FOR RENT

Interactive public art project by Niklas Roy features a “For Rent’ sign that follows passers-by of an empty shop window - video embedded below:

Sherbrooke’s downtown has many abandoned shop fronts. My installation was set up in one of them. And as nobody likes to stroll in roads with empty shop windows, I wanted to do this retail space a favour and help it to find a new tenant who can care about it.

… A surveillance camera is mounted on the facade of the empty building. A computer tracks pedestrians and moves the “À LOUER” sign right in front of them.

More at Niklas’ website here