sunshine monument



"Sunshine Monument" was commissioned for the Whitney Museum of American Art's Sunrise/Sunset program in 2023. This program presents internet art projects that mark sunrise and sunet in New York everyday, displayed both online and within the museum's physical architecure. As the project curator, Christian Paul, describes it:

Peter Burr’s Sunshine Monument consists of a series of seven animated architectures—one for each weekday—that reflect on museum structures literally and symbolically. The scrolling animations reference both the underlying formal principles of whitney.org and the current moment of Web design. Each of the animations in Burr’s signature style of animated black and white graphic elements, for example, translates the layout of the blocks of text and images on the Whitney’s website into an abstract building populated by wandering figures, while maintaining the site’s adaptability to the vertical and horizontal orientation of computer screens and mobile devices. The animations strive to channel the atmosphere of the late Web 2.0 landscape of social media and user-generated content, characterized by an increasingly indexed, optimized, and gamified environment.

Learn more about the project at the Whitney's website here.

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ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS
- programming by Oren Shoham

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