Carnegie Mellon University | CMU: Carnegie Mellon University alumni have once again fit the bill in creating phenomenal art.
From the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to contractors, they have played a role in the inaugural U.S. appearance of the Rubber Duck Project by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman.
The Rubber Duck Project is part of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust curated by Paul Organisak, vice president of programming for the trust. The festival welcomes American premieres of visual and performance art from around the globe.
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Well the first line is certainly a stretch. CMU has a massive and extremely successful network of alumni who accomplish amazing things. Recognizing this, it is odd sometimes how desperate they get to put their name on something. I think there is a difference between the designer who comes up with the idea and the contractor who builds it. The one creating the art is the designer, even if the contractor is doing the literal creation. I don't think CMU really has a right to claim this art piece. The article would have felt a lot less needy without that first statement.
Isaac, CMU is not claiming the art piece. With a project as public as the duck was, serious thought and planning must be put into the presentation, management, maintenance, and safety of the task, none of which the designer had anything to do with. I had the pleasure of working with Clearstory for this project in partnership with the trust and the detail that the Cleastory team put into the execution of this project deserves to be lauded. Everything to coordinating tug boats and incoming tides to final placement for optimal photography had to be carefully calculated on a stage where the entire country has their gaze fixed upon.
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