The High Line & Digital Empathy

If you are planning to visit Manhattan this summer, consider checking out The High Line. Section 2 is now open, so the aerial park extends from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to West 34th Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues.

There is also a rotating schedule of temporary artworks in and around The High Line. Digital Empathy is a sound installation by Julianne Swartz - voices reading poetry, singing love songs, or just reciting pragmatic information are transmitted through the park's bathroom sinks, water fountains and elevators.

Digital Empathy plays on the notion that, in our culture, we turn to technologies like online social networking, blogs, and instant messages to meet our basic human need for friendship and personal connection.