Giant Head LED photo booth sculpture

Columbus, Ohio, United States

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As We Are is a 14-foot-tall sculpture of a human head by Columbus artist Matthew Mohr in the North Atrium of the Greater Columbus Convention Center. It is made of ribbons of LED screen and contains a 3D photo booth. It was revealed on 31 August 2017.

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A 14-foot human head made of light stands in the atrium of the Greater Columbus Convention Center, and its face is whoever stepped out of the photo booth in its neck a moment ago.

As We Are was conceived by Columbus artist Matthew Mohr, a professor at the Columbus College of Art and Design, and fabricated by Design Communications Ltd. of Boston. It is made from ribbons of ultrabright LED screens. Visitors enter a booth that takes 3-D pictures, then step out to see their portrait shown as the giant face for about 30 seconds. Images are stored in a database and rotate, fading one into another.

Mohr said each portrait is roughly 17 times the size of the person it shows: in his words, the eyes are as big as dinner plates. He said the magnification is meant to make viewers consider who that person is and the life they lead. The Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority, which owns the center, commissioned it as the signature piece in its art collection, part of a $3.5 million investment in art.

The authority says Mohr's proposal was selected in the summer of 2015 as part of the art initiative for the renovation and expansion. The sculpture was revealed at the center's grand opening celebration on 31 August 2017, and the authority invited the general public to visit on 12 September 2017.

A 2026 Columbus Navigator guide to public art lists the piece in the North Atrium at 400 N. High Street and notes it was installed in 2017 and describes the 3-D photo booth. Because it sits inside a working convention center, check access with the authority before visiting.

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Inside the North Atrium of the Greater Columbus Convention Center, 400 N. High Street. Visitors can use the 3D photo booth in the head and see their portrait shown on its face. At the 2017 launch, guest services hours were weekdays 9am to 4pm, weekends 9am to 3pm; confirm current hours.

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Indoor, in a working convention center at 400 N. High Street, Columbus. The authority invited the public in 2017 with staffed hours then; those hours are from 2017 and may have changed, so contact the Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority.

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