Virtual children play a game of hide-and-seek in and among Atlanta landmarks in this public art projection.

Commissioned as a traveling public art installation by Atlanta Celebrates Photography, this work by Eshkar and Kaiser evokes two children as they play hide-and-seek in the make-believe urban geography of their imaginations, bringing the city to a new kind of life. Each child has a camera to frame and capture the city — and each other — as they cavort among the city’s landmarks. The virtual children are constructed in digital 3D and animated by motion-captured movement. The city, also virtual, is built from 3D models of the topography and architecture of Atlanta. The imagery balances abstraction and recognition in a kind of perceptual hide-and-seek of its own.

This work allowed us to explore some of the themes and locales originally storyboarded for the suspended Horizon project, but through the theme of the photographic image.

Hide and Seek opened at the new Atlantic Station on October 20 2005 where it was projected outside every night through November 20.