Public Art class 2

Week 2 (Feb. 5) – QR codes, how to make and use them

Asn. 1 due. - view modification exercise from day 1

works as examples

With the readings in mind, how would you comment on each of these works

• what questions does it choose to ask or not

Working with existing public space and sculpture

• Luftwerk
• Andrea Polli, Particle Falls
• [http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/segment-krzysztof-wodiczko-in-power/

Wodiczko projections - Power]

Questions from readings

• what points does the reading make about notions of private and public?

• How does the hypocrisy of government support for privileged classes and exclusion of the homeless connect with the Occupy movement?

• Isn’t the very notion of democracy called into question, with its emphasis on individual rights (and presumed neglect of communal ones)

• Paul Garin on internet as public space
• to what extent can the visual be relied upon as an indicator of public space?
• Lawrence Lessig
• readings stress populism – engagement of the public with public art
• One way people can engage w/ public art is by re-interpreting and re-using it for their own purposes. Examples?
  • Crown Fountain
  • Gen’l Logan
  • The Wall
  • Picasso

• Who decides what a work of art means? Isn’t the artist’s intention the most important?

• Who should choose works of public art?

• Does public art (or any art for that matter) have a limited life span?

• Does public art have an obligation to address contemporary issues of importance?

• The city formerly known as Cambridge – brilliant in its choice of one mechanism of acknowledgment of history and importance and meaning creation to re-investigate and reinvest public space with personal and community significance – questions who is in control

• What about the idea of redefining something as a work of art (eg. the Boston Dig)?

QR codes, how to make and use them

Quick Response Code [1]

Wasp QR code generator [2]

• Type or paste text into window
• Click on Get Your QR Code button to create QR code image.
• Scroll down to use the embed code to place on webpage, or R click and Save Image As to save to a file.

QR code decoder [3]

• hit browse to navigate to a file on your hard drive (could be one you've generated or a photo taken with your cel)
• Submit Query
• will return text

Other tools:

mobile-barcodes.com

Free QRcode Creator and QR Barcode Tool

Examples of interesting uses of barcodes:

• Buttons
• mosaic
• art
• game board
• game board
• memorial marker
• memorial link

dimensions of display windows

• 106"h x 224"w
• which consists of 3 panels that 106"h x 47 3/4" w and one larger panel of 106"h x 76"w.
• from left to right it is two smaller panels by the one larger panel and terminating with another smaller panel.

• plan B
• Krzystof Wodiczko Homeless Vehicle
• Projection Bombing
• mobile projection

Reading for next week:

• Ganz, Nicholas. Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents. pp. 8-10, 18-19.;
• GoingPublic; GraffitiWorld;
• Chgo Ordinance 83
• Ch. 1,5, Public Art
• Tristan Hummel, develop questions for[4]

Assignment due next week

Asn. 1 - create/submit a googlemap entry on the IAM Public Art googlemap

• IAM/IDA googlemap

resources:

The City Formerly Known as Cambridge

playing in Crown Fountain

personal memorials at the Wall

playing on the Picasso