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MIT Students Design Special Athens ExhibitIn celebration of the Olympics, the government in Athens commissioned a number of interactive art exhibits in the city's historic center. VOA News' Brian Padden follows the construction of three projects that range from the historic, to the inexplicable to the surreal.
One week before the scheduled opening of the Olympics, a group of students from the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology and their Professor Mee Jin Yoon are hard at work.
"The project is called white noise - white light, and it engages the pedestrians as they move through this plaza," the professor explains.
They are one of nine winners of an international competition conducted by the city of Athens to build modern art exhibits near the city's historical sites. Most of the other works are being created by more experienced artists like Costis Tsoklis of Greece.
"Visual Art cannot be expressed with words," he says.
And Demitrius Alithinos also of Greece, who is building a 5 meter tall modern rendition of the Greek god Zeus.
"The inspiration is the same god changing through time," he explains.
The MIT exhibit, called White Light, White Noise, is a fiber optic field which will emit light and sound when touched.
"If you get really close you can see it lighting up, but it's hard to tell right now," says professor Mee Jin Yoon of Massachusetts
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