hello

January 1999 I began my quest to personally greet one million people. Holding a silver tally counter, I walked the streets of New York interacting with passersby. This piece has no physical recorded documentation, except for the clicker itself. Due to the media’s interest in ‘hello’, I have used an adapted version of their footage, as an extension of my project. January 2000, I appeared on Good Morning America. Unbeknown to the television host and crew I recorded the experience with a spy camera disguised in a lapel flower. hello Good Morning America weaves together behind the scenes video with broadcast footage to provide an inside look at how television and the mediation of human experience is produced.

Press:

New York Times: New York Up Close, City Section – hello project, Tom Roe, January 2, 2000
Good Morning America: ABC TV, January 4, 2000 “Say hello Woman”, Interview by Charles Gibson and Elizabeth Vargas
The Nature of Mathematics, 12th edition: hello project, Section 1.3, Scientific Notation and Estimation, 2007+ by Karl J. Smith
SF Gate: Jan. 2000 – Weekly online art column, hello GMA appearance, SF Chronicle, Beth Lisick
SAT 1 TV: TimeZone Television, 5 minute artist documentary. German National Television
WNYC radio: hello interview for The Next Big Thing – Arts and culture radio magazine. NPR. November 2000
hello project, Radio Appearances; KRDO Colorado Springs, 99.3 Springfield MA, KFGO Fargo ND, New Zealand.

hello Good Morning America looping exhibition, single screening and live invited appearances. 2000/01

Downtown Arts Festival: hello and I am Videotaping You Right Now. Live Performance, web and video objects.
hello Stage appearance at Club Largo, Los Angeles