support

Local Report is sponsored by the Baker Family in their ongoing commitment to bring art to smaller communities by commissioning artists' projects at their NRDC shopping centers.


additional support from

National Realty & Development Corp.
NRDC, headquartered in Purchase, NY, is one of the leading real estate development and management firms in the northeast. The Company currently owns and manages a portfolio in excess of 14 million square feet of retail, office and industrial properties in 15 states. The Company was recently ranked in the top 10 of privately held companies in the country out of the 75 shopping center owner/developers surveyed in one of the industry’s leading trade magazines. For a complete listing of NRDC’s portfolio, visit its website at www.nrdc.com.

Nokia
Nokia's Connect to Art initiative, founded on the belief that the combination of art and technology is a powerful catalyst for the advancement of human expression and achievement, seeks to actively
connect emerging artists and art-lovers to their passion. Connect to Art centers on active participation in the art world and encourages others to participate as well. Current exhibitions, including those designed
exclusively for mobile devices, can be found at www.nokia.com/art.

E.A.T.
Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) is a not-for-profit service organization for artists and engineers to provide artists with new technology, technical information and assistance by matching them with
engineers and scientists who can collaborate with them. It was founded in 1966 by engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer and artists Robert Rauschenberg, and Robert Whitman. E.A.T. has carried out
large scale collaborative projects like "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" a series of artists’ performances made in collaboration with engineers from Bell Telephone Laboratories; the design and
programming of the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan; and projects that extended the artist's activities into new areas of social concern: instructional television programming for India's satellite
television system; international telex project; and pilot projects with children and new communications equipment.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Education Lab

Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU

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