You pick a photo or video to work on, then switch over to the right editing program (although you can make quick, automatic adjustments, like "auto color" in the organizer itself).
And the crowd itself — organizers expected about 150,000 people to attend — was often part of the artwork.
At the event itself, organizers planned a series of conversations to get issues out into the open.
To promote itself, festival organizers hired Wing, a unit of the Grey Group of WPP that specializes in the Latino market, as their new agency of record.
A majority of the jurors also appeared ready to acquit two other defendants of most charges, and could not reach a verdict on charges against the two principal organizers and the foundation itself, which had been the largest Muslim charity in the United States until the government froze its assets in late 2001.
For almost a week at a hotel here, organizers immerse the group, which calls itself KlezKamp, in Yiddish and the folkways of the Eastern Europeans who spoke that language until Hitler extinguished their communities.
Rather than directly attack these issues, Mr. Ratliff allows the organizers' lack of knowledge to speak for itself.
The concert itself earned less than its organizers had hoped -- about $40,000 for each of four sponsoring charities.
The architects imagine the installation process as a performance piece in itself, something like watching event organizers blow up the balloons for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
As a challenge to organizers and audiences alike, the festival is regrounding itself as a showcase for new, untested work.
