December 2009
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November 2009
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Show Title ?
I was thinking of calling the show a different name than the class name. The New American Pastoral I don’t know that we really need to frame the show as different than the class but I wonder if the above title works better with the site and all the groups responses to the site. It seems to link the documentary, fish sculptures in a little better since there is no machine per se in those work. ...
New Links, NEW Lectures!
check them out.
edible walls
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/business/energy-environment/19WALLS.html?_r=1&hp
Jim Lommasson's Oaks Park Pentimento →
Watchview from the 12th floor of the john ross.
- liz.
augmented reality
Augmented Reality
http://www.xc-01.de/english/index.html
Take 2 & 3
Oh, and the performance aspect seems to have gone away. Personally, I thought it added a nice bit of humor, and liked the layers of watching a video, of people outside watching nature, on a TV, that’s showing the nature they would see without the TV. I think you don’t even need the living room, just people on a blanket even, like a picnic. Anyway, I liked that whole direction. I think...
Take 2 response
One of the assumptions or commentaries being made is that people mostly experience nature through a frame. I’m a bit hesitant about this. I think that you have two ideas, one is about framing nature and the other is how people experience nature.
Yes, I can see that people often experience nature through a frame, like a window or a TV, so then maybe your project expands to frames besides the...
Take 3 response
The value of the view… couple questions. Who is determining the price of the view? If you are looking at sold condos -the appraiser will assign it a $ value, but that is probably private information. You are probably suggesting unsold condos? Which is nice because then you are only looking at how the developer has assigned $value to the view. I think that you could also explore what the view...
TWO IDEAS.
we have two proposals and would love feedback on them as soon as possible. any thoughts?
CWN group, proposal take 3
From the 19th century idealistic landscape paintings we have idolized the idea of having the perfect view of nature. This notion of the “view” is something that has not been erased by time, in fact, it has only been strengthened. We have not surpassed the day where people have stopped buying these pastoral landscape images to adorn their homes and this time will probably not come to...
CWN group, proposal take 2
One can frame nature and life through windows, photographs, and televisions. While framing can be an effective way to abstractly understand a subject, we feel it is important to step away from this framing in order to truly connect with nature. We would like to address the issue of framing nature through television by installing a television in six locations outside. The television, while placed...
2009 Model Railroad Show in PDX
this weekend only… team Ghost Story take note!
details: http://www.cgmrc.com/Show/Show2009.html
Liz
I like the Spring in New York pieces.
Liska
Claire and Lee:
I like this idea. The classification thing. Somehow I find the tree idea most compelling - kingdom, phylum, genus, species, variety….an arbitrary way of linking people together - yet is classifies them. interesting. needs to remain straight and serious, as if this is done all the time. this is how people are classified. Brings up issues of classifiying, cataloging - questions actual...
sooo
Lee and i are working on our idea some-more,
here is what we’ve come up with,
having a party, invite the sowa residents, ask them to bring a houseplant, or is they dont have one would they like one? then we would photograph people with their plants. like a formal portrait set up… we would ask them 7 things about themselves. and we would identify the plant they brought(scientific...
likes spring in new york
Makes me wonder if we could use some of these ideas to create “haunting” images. Wha-ha -punny :-) wakawaka
a spring in new york. →
just found this on notcot.
- liz.
Liska likes Alex's link.
Seeing is Deceiving
If there is time and some money left this could be a cool route to explore.
http://www.everita.com/subversive-sightseeing-interactive-video-telescopes-bu0836
Learning to Love you More (posted by Liska) →
sketchup model of SWF
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=50d79088d1074b698a60a303236be65d
DESIGN PROPOSAL
ALEX MISAR - LYTTON REID
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
MACHIENE IN THE GARDEN
Falling Ap - ART
STATEMENT OF INTENT
It is our goal is to create an art installation along the bank of the Willamette River at the South Waterfront that exemplifies the beauty of nature’s cycles and processes. This installation will chart the transformation of earth elements into and out of well-known object forms. We will...
Guerrilla Gardening
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/669505/guerrilla_gardening_tips_how_to_make.html?cat=32
as far as this goes...
Before you read all this, Lee and I feel that we will not be able to get the results we want in such a short time… there is to much depending on the participation of a population that seems invisible. we think our help elsewhere would benefit the group as a whole.
1. what do we want to do?
for this project we want to create a dynamic visual representation of the inhabitants of the south...
response to connecting to nature group
Knee-jerk reaction, I like it. I briefly looked through it (before-bed internet check) and saw it posted. I especially love the plants watching the people watching the plants. I still think that filming the outdoor living room Jeff Corwin part so the plants could watch IT (instead of the closed circuit) would be amusing. However, I like the theater/performance element of the living room idea. I...
connecting with nature group
group members: allyson, liz, chris, priscilla.
PROPOSAL:
Ironic Surveillance: Who is watching whom?
Our intent is to address the issue related to exclusive visual interaction with nature, as commonly experienced through television shows. We are challenging the efficiency of natural surveillance by reversing the roles of the viewer and the viewed through the use of plants.
The South Waterfront...
Teams, Updates, Comments, and Etc.
Hi all, sorry for the delay, much work had to be done in the past couple of days. First off:
No worries about group switching Claire. In fact, I am thinking of jumping ship too, haha. I think we lost a bit of headway trying to create a new project last Friday, and the pieces didn’t really fit together right. Tad kind of hit it on the head with the Jedermann project… I think that...
Tracking Change Proposal doc
Proposal for Urban Legend Movie and Map
Theme: Tracking Change
Team: Charlotte Goldman and Daniel Sexton
Urban Legend: “an often lurid story or anecdote that is based on hearsay and widely circulated as true.”
Intent:
Our project is to create a 10-15min movie and a walking map that will imbue character into the site by exploring a fabricated past event. We also propose to install...
Lee??
proposals
Ok. If I was writing a proposal I would careful review all the responses thus far. I would then take a walk trying not to think directly about any criticism but rather focusing on what was my key intent was. Then I would return to my texts and collaborators and see if I can push the idea further and in a clearer direction. What is at stake? Is there a better way to get at it? Then I would rework...
Alex and Lytton!!
good work I like the idea of decomposing sculptrues… cradle to cradle… placing these sculptures is going to be very important as well as the quality of production. the final product (before) it decomposes i think should look very finished and sleek to fit in with the sowa scene.
maybe when it deteriorates it creates some sort of lasting garden?… you could plan what plants would...
nature group...
I really like the idea of watching plants grow… is it a video playing in your house like thoes new digital picture frames? would the plant be outside? down on the ground level or somewhere in the world? would the plant sway in the wind in the picture frame or would it be like timelapse?
as far as the other way around I got this funny picture in my mind of plants sitting on a couch eating...
People and Places
Lee,
I feel that one possible element which may be lacking in your proposal is the context in which these pictures are placed. I wonder if you might elaborate on this. How do they relate to their surroundings, where will they be placed and why, is a gallery the best location? It seems that relating these pictures to the site is the key issue that, in my mind, remains unresolved. Also,...
Movie/Legend
Charlotte and Daniel,
You have most certainly elected to pursue an ambitious, but none the less, exciting project. As others have expressed, I would encourage you to carefully find the balance between lending a satirical history to the place while making sure the project isn’t over the top - a fine balance to be sure. For this reason, and the time constraint, it may be best to limit the...
Project Clarification
Liz et all,
Sorry for the confusion. Admittedly, our initial outline was assuaged, if you will, in an effort to save the “wow” factor for Friday. However, this defeats the purpose of a group dialogue/getting feedback prior to the formal presentation on Friday, so…
It is our goal to create a series of biodegradable, nontoxic, impermanent sculptures along the waterfront. Similar to the Dung...
plant surveillance response
i find this strangely compelling. much will depend on the level of craft you bring — i.e. it’s got to be something that a SWF resident would actually want to hang on their wall and live with for a long time. doing background extraction on the video to isolate the plant is an interesting idea (but might be hard to pull off); you’ll probably want to think carefully about how you...
inside/outside proposal response
so, there are lots of ways that people bring “nature” indoors — houseplants, terrariums, winter gardens, etc. for this idea to be successful i think it has to do more than just project plants on windows. i wonder what happens when you push a bit harder…. maybe you highlight more extreme landscapes — jungle, tundra, mars, etc. the idea of encapsulating nature in a...
movie / legend
I think the movie idea has really possibilities. Seems fun and could be framed to pick up on some of the issues we are contending with — but of course that is the balancing act if you try to lay to much into it it will not work. The Blair Witch and Chris’ Elmo (on a smaller scale) became their own events. i would avoid “Indian sacrifices,” and big foot (for other reasons). I...
people and places
I think the basic idea of using the conventions of portraiture is good, it fairly immediately puts us into the framework of how identity constructed —be it the identity of and individual or a community. I think Liz is right, however, to question wether the ideas listed so far get at some of the issues you post about. There is a identity that the developers is selling regarding the relationship...
