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Source: The Frederick News-Post, Md.文件倉Sept. 05--What is three times five squared?Perhaps that is up for interpretation.75.Who ARE you?75.Yeah, I just got a flier on my car ...30.75.The answer is 75.Noah McWilliams took a math problem and turned it into a social experiment. For the past six years, and more fervently in the past two, he created fliers with 3X52=? and a phone number on them, and put them on car windshields in downtown Frederick during the night.The Google Voice phone number then took callers to a simple message -- "Please leave your answer" -- and allowed McWilliams to collect the messages as mp3 files, which he used to create his show "3X52=?" at the Griffin Art Center this month, an audio installation that is extremely minimal in its visual presentation -- bare, white walls, aside from an enlarged version of his flier on one of them.Speakers throughout the room play one message after the next, overlapping and echoeing in a bizarre, dreamlike conversation, with the occasional "75" grounding it. For the show, he's collected some 500 voicemail recordings of about 20,000 total.He got hostile messages -- usually a reaction to an invasion of space, he said. He got sweet messages from old ladies. He got late-night, drunken messages. He got people's life stories that culminated in how they don't do algebra. He got people who thought he was trying to steal their identity, people who thought there was a religious connotation to the math equation, people who thought they were going to win a prize."Some people would answer it directly, or hipsters would call up and be dismissive or try to be funny, but they still didn't know what it was about," McWilliams said Sunday at the Griffin Center. "I mean, it was just a math problem with a phone number."Something as objective as a math problem, though, became completely subjective thr存倉ugh his process.Backtrack six years and McWilliams was delivering pizzas and sharing a parking lot with the Board of Education building. A different teacher seemed to come by every day and accuse the delivery workers of parking in their spaces, "which was totally ridiculous," McWilliams said. "We were paying for the spaces. ... So eventually I started putting napkins with math problems on their cars. ... I did it out of half boredom, half being obnoxious, but what was really funny is they would answer them and put them back on our cars."From there, he started flyering cars in a more organized fashion, leaving identical paper fliers of a math problem on random cars throughout downtown Frederick.During the past two years, he picked up the pace, flyering about 400 cars in downtown Frederick every weekend.It's been compared to Magnet Man, he said, the street artist who has posted hundreds of magnets around downtown Frederick with cryptic, philosophical messages on them -- "except Magnet Man wasn't taking a voyeuristic approach to people's reactions."During the past week, he started putting fliers for his exhibit on downtown cars, so there's a high likelihood that people who left voicemails will be at the opening reception on Saturday."These are gonna be the people," he said. "They're gonna hear their voices ... shouting at this inflammatory statement which is just a math problem."--What: "3X52=?" audio installation by Noah McWilliamsWhen: Opening receptions from 5 to 9 p.m. Sept 7 and 14, and by appointment through Sept. 28.Where: Griffin Art Center, 437 N. Market St., FrederickInfo: 888-666-0804; gallery@griffinartcenter.com; .griffinartcenter.com.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Frederick News-Post (Frederick, Md.) Visit The Frederick News-Post (Frederick, Md.) at .fredericknewspost.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉