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The Now, the first featured art presentation at Coolture Impact, the largest interactive public art platform on the windows of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Times Square, offers a journey into magical worlds, intertwining reality and fantasy, opening doors to hidden places and participatory environments. The Now explores transitory spaces and unseen parallel realities, in a cinematic voyage to visually striking realms, live painting, and animated characters with evolving narratives. Visitors are invited to walk, move and unravel the different storylines.

The Now was created by filmmakers and video artists Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (Laia Cabrera & Co) through video art, animation, video mapping and interactivity. Interactivity is provided by designers Lorne Covington and Bill Saiff (NoirFlux) and immersive experience developer Karan Parikh.

About Coolture Impact

At the edge of new digital frontiers, Coolture Impact is an incubator that explores and exploits new technologies,

A child of the Great Depression, Elaine Mokhtefi left the United States in the early 1950s. She was on the run from McCarthyism and from the provincialism she'd encountered as a student in segregated Georgia. After time in Paris, she moved to Algiers which, following independence in 1962, has become a beacon and safe haven for radicals all around the world. Freedom fighters, anti-fascists and political exiles flocked to it from Spain, Portugal South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and the United States. Mokhtefi, a journalist and translator, found her home here. She helped establish the International Section of the Black Panther Party, organised the first Pan-African Cultural Festival, translated for Julius Nyerere, befriended Frantz Fanon, appeared in Gilles Pontercorvo's The Battle of Algiers, and crossed paths with the likes of Eldridge Cleaver, Ahmed Ben Bella, Miriam Makeba, Jomo Kenyatta and Stokely Carmichael. 

Join Mokhtefi and writer Adam Shatz as they evoke revolutionary