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

• 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)?

• 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)

QR codes, how to make and use them

Quick Response Code [1]

bar code generator

bar code generator

/ bar code decoder

mobile-barcodes.com

Free QRcode Creator and QR Barcode Tool

XRenQRcode

• Type or paste text into left window
• Click on Encode button to create QR code image in right window.
• Save icon in menu bar saves text.
• Copy icon copies QR image to clipboard. Paste into image software to save.
• Click on open icon to open a text file or QR code image file.
• Click on Decode button to decode opened image.

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[2]

Assignment due next week

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

• [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=

210416865969027066420.00047df18c0b53f66c6dc / IAM/IDA googlemap]

resources:

The City Formerly Known as Cambridge

playing in Crown Fountain

personal memorials at the Wall

playing on the Picasso