"IMPERMANENCE" art installation with Ipods
"Impermanence" is an art installation by David & Hi-jin Hodge, part of Exhibition "The Missing peace, Artists consider Dalai Lama": 
"A multi-media art exhibition that brings together over 75 well-respected artists, representing more than 25 countries. With the full life of the Dalai Lama as inspiration, the intention for this project is to shift the world's attention towards peace." (extract from the homepage)
The exhibition involves more or less 80 artists among which Yuriko Yamaguchi, Anish Kapoor, Marina Abramovic etc., and has as main purpose, the one of directing world's attention on peace..
The installation "Impermanence" is constitued by a set of 16 Ipods in circular disposition, each of them plugged on its "Ipod Hifi"; 
At all times, on every display, someone will be talking about impermanence.
There are more than 80 inteviews to several kinds of people, from street people to buddist monks, all speaking about their concept of IMPERMANENCE.
The hope of artists is that during the exhibit, each visitor can find "a face, a person, or a topic they can connect with in some way. Some viewers may choose to circle the room for a few minutes, taking in only a small sample of each speaker. Other may stay for hours." (extract from the project page).
"Beyond the installation": in addition to this, all the interviews will be available in Vodcast format, so everybody can download for free the interviews (there are funny, sad and wise ones); I think it is geat because the content of the interviews really makes you think, and could be an inredibly valid issue, either for psychological researches, either for school classes.
Today I've met the artists and seen some videos of the installation, besides technical aspects (they use Ipods and 100% Apple equipement!!!), there is always that thing that makes projects great: SIMPLICITY!!
Here some other images of the exhibition in Los Angeles.. In 2007 (or maybe 2008) will be at MACRO in Rome.
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