Billy Friebele
Art & Research
City of Ghosts
City of Ghosts was the culmination of a one-year Makers-in-Residence position I shared with Mike Iacovone at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC. We were challenged to incorporate the tools in the maker space to create an exhibition.
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Random Access Remix of "The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life" by Martin Luther King Jr utilizes a 3D scan of a bust of Dr. King Jr. from the library and Arduino microcontrollers to build an interactive experience. When the button is pressed the text from "The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life" speech delivered at New Covenant Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, on 9 April 1967 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is randomly accessed and printed for the viewer in the form of a receipt. The viewer can choose to take the text with them.



