LAST CHANCE FOR WHAT IS MISSING. MAYA LIN, WORLD-RENOWN ARCHITECT of the Viet Nam War Memorial in Washington, DC, has spent the last seven years creating what she calls her "last memorial." She has been traveling the globe to gain an understanding of species extinction and to highlight what scientists and environmental groups are doing to protect endangered species and their habitats.

Above: Frame from one of four videos by Maya Lin for What Is Missing. Copyright the artist, courtesy Creative Time.

The memorial consists of site-specific media installations, traveling art exhibitions, a printed and digital book, and other forms, linked through the project's website (www.whatismissing.net/). The four videos that are part of this expansive project designed to build awareness about disappearing species are currently on view at the giant 44-1/2 HD screen in Times Square.

According to the website, we are now in the midst of the sixth great species extinction, in which a distinct living species of plant or animal disappears every 20 minutes. At this rate, by some estimates as much as 30 percent of the world's animals and plants could be on a path to extinction in 100 years. What Is Missing asks us to pay closer attention not just to this crisis in biodiversity loss, but like Lin's other artworks will focus your attention on things that we have lost that we might not even be thinking about.

THROUGH SATURDAY, MAY 30: WHAT IS MISSING BY MAYA LIN, presented by Creative Time, can be seen on the larger-than-life, high definition 44-1/2 screen located on Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets, New York, NY. The viewing schedule is here.

Maya Lin is a participant in the Creative Time Global Residency Program, for which she has traveled to diverse parts of the world to connect with disappearing species for What Is Missing. Among the sculpture, video, sound, hand-held electronics, printed material and interactive website which are part of the project is the permanent installation of The Listening Cone at the California Academy of Sciences. The recorded tweets are sounds that Lin collected at Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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