Cubed NY
Cubed NY is a portrait of New York City as a single living body — its parts moving, building, scattering, and cohering — made visible for one month, then released back into memory.
This month-long public art installation is a co-creation experiment exploring New Yorkers as a collective organism.
100,000 white cubes — roughly 18" × 18" × 18" — are dropped in the middle of Central Park. Sturdy, biodegradable, and environmentally designed, they are released into the city with no instructions.
New Yorkers are invited to do whatever they want with them: build sculptures, play games, graffiti them, tuck them into unexpected corners of the city, bring them home. The cubes scatter organically, moved entirely by the will and whimsy of the people.
1 - The Bones
2 - The Blood
Each cube is transparently tracked. The location data is encrypted and data relay is delayed by 24 hours (so no one can chase a cube in real time), and fed into a single output: one large electronic billboard, somewhere near Central Park.
On that screen, a fluid, living visualization maps the choreography of the cubes — and by extension, the choreography of New Yorkers themselves. A painting made of movement. The bloodflow of a city-body made visible.
The data lives nowhere else. No app, no website, no feed.
3 - The Brain (The Heart)
A handful of massive cubes — 12' × 12' × 12' — are introduced into the landscape. Each has four sides fitted with LCD screens, glowing white or near-blank by default.
At unpredictable moments, a giant face appears on one side of one cube. It's Robert Sinclair a charming, funny, curious and intelligent human. He can see and hear those in front of the screen and they can see and hear him.
He jokes, riffs, plays games, freestyle raps, prompts them to dance, sing, make faces and make cube art. He also asks deep questions, encourages them to tell meaningful stories, and many other forms of engagement. All kinds of ways to stimulate the mind and the heart of New Yorkers who happen to be walking by.
He can only inhabit one screen, on one cube, in one place at a time. The encounters are live and unrecorded. You can't plan for them. You either catch one or you don't.
He can also surprise interrupt the main large scale billboard.
Documentation
No official online presence. No social media campaign. Photographers will capture some of the sculptures New Yorkers build, the strange places they leave cubes, the unexpected creativity of the collective — an archive of the city's imagination. That archive may surface somewhere, eventually. But the heart of Cubed NY is ephemeral: connections that happen in the world, not on a screen.
