Harvard Square Art: Three for free
TWO
• Lumen Eclipse, an outdoor video installation set over the Information Booth next to entrance to the T in the epicenter of Harvard Square
Daily 5 A.M. - 1 A.M.
www.lumeneclipse.com
PART TWO
Videos are becoming the oxygen that feeds our mass culture. Video screens have popped up on iPods, at the checkout counter at the supermarkets, at your health club, and on cell phones. So why not erect a couple of monitors atop the Information kiosk a few yards from the Out of Town News stand? And load them with a confection of three short videos you can watch while you finish your latte and drink in the original people watching carnival that plays live every hour of the day in the pit leading to the stairs of the Harvard Square T. 
pt @ large assumes you’re hip enough not to be thinking how civic minded of Cambridge to present entertainment to the 53,000 people who walk by the booth every day. We’re talking commerce here. The videos are sandwiched between advertisements for a slew of businesses with a short sashay from the two monitors. If pt @ large were paranoid, he’d wonder if said establishments had a surveillance camera trained on the kiosk that tracked viewers right into their doors after being sucked in by the advertising.
The three videos are pleasant little potpourri of animation and reality: one allegory, one paean to sisters everywhere, and one riff on a modern day Alice in Wonderland tale. On the outside chance you’d prefer to see these videos without having panhandlers asking you to contribute to their housing or sustenance needs, you can view them (the videos, I mean) at www.lumeneclipse.com
OK, now that you’ve taken a breather, it’s on to the third stop of the “Three for Free” tour.
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