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Week 4 (Feb. 19)– projections
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Week 4 (Feb. 17)– community art, interviewing, war memorials
  
Lab component:  creating shaped masks for projecting on objects
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field trip - Chicago Public Art Group; Jon Pounds
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1259 S Wabash Ave
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Chicago, IL 60605
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(312) 427-2724
  
Screening: Krzysztof Wodiczko [videorecording] : projections
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Questions:
  
Visitor:  Mat Rappaport (possible)
 
  
Project 1 due – critique.   
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- If you have an idea for a community art project, how would you go about getting the community involved?
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- How would you find sponsorship and get commitments for participation?
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- Please describe the impact of some of your projects on the local community and beyond.
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- How do you decide where to do projects/place objects?
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- do you have a summer camp for kids?  Do you think of your projects as art education as well as the other functions they serve?
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- when you decide to create a work, what factors determine the placement of the piece and how you go about gaining participation?
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- how do you feel about the permanence or impermanence of a piece?  who maintains them after they are completed?
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- how would someone get involved in CPAG?
  
Reading for next week: Rose, Barbara.  “Art as Experience, Environment, Process” in Pavilion, Experiments in Art and Technology, pp. 60-104
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==Interviewing==
  
Resources: Millenium Park and the Privatization of public space: [[http://newurbanist.blogspot.com/2005/01/copyrighting-of-public-space.html]]
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examples:
  
How to:
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would you want to emulate this interviewer?  [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O09L6xrdIDQ]]
[[http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/07/diy_mobile_art_projection.html]]
 
[[http://www.instructables.com/id/PROJECTION-BOMBING/ ]]
 
  
Artists:
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what if the interviewer is looking for something different from the interview than the interviewee?  (and what about running music behind an interview) [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NcMIoAJYPY&NR=1]]
Raymond Ghirardo and Megan Roberts
 
[[http://faculty.ithaca.edu/ghirardo/]]
 
  
Tony Oursler
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interactive work on criminal justice system that includes interviews  [[http://www.360degrees.org/]]
[[http://www.tonyoursler.com/tonyourslerv2/main.html]]
 
  
Bill Viola
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Where Are You From? interactive work on globalism and identity  [[http://www.hometransfer.org/where/stories.html]]
[[http://www.billviola.com/]]
 
  
C.E.B. Reas
 
[[http://reas.com/media/ti_s.mov]]
 
  
Drew Browning  
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For the interviewer:
[[http://www.evl.uic.edu/drew/PresDis.50d.mov ]]
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1.  What do you want to know?  what information is important for the audience?
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2. What questions can you ask that don't foreclose upon unanticipated results, or
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3. how can you ask questions that open up rather than close down communication?
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4.  What environmental or attitudinal factors could facilitate or inhibit communication?
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For Veterans (sample questions):
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1. When did you serve, and for how long?
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2.  What led you to join the service (what were your circumstances)
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2a.  What did you hope to achieve by serving?
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2b. Do you think you did achieve that?
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3. where and what were you assigned to do?
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3a. what was that experience like for you?
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4. What was it like when you came back?
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Matt Rappaport
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pose open-ended questions
[[http://www.v1b3.com/projects/rove.html]]
 
  
Susan Collins 
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LISTEN to the answer as a way to formulate the next question
[[http://www.susan-collins.net/]]
 
  
Krzysztof Wodiczko
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what does the person want to talk about?
[[http://web.mit.edu/idg/cecut.html]]
 
  
Daniel Peltz
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==War Memorials==
[[http://risd.tv/dpeltz/corner.html ]]
 
  
Paul Kaiser/Shelley Eshkar
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*What purpose do they serve
[[http://music.columbia.edu/~mando/Assets/PaulKaiserPage/pedestrianExcerpts.mov]]
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*Who/what are they commemorating
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*What is their attitude toward war
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*Where are they situated
  
Bill Viola:  He Weeps for You
 
[[http://www.sfmoma.org/espace/viola/dhtml/content/viola_gallery/BV08v.html]]
 
  
Renate Ferro:  Memory Trunk
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Tonight at Gallery 400, UIC, 5 PM [[http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/05_info.htm]]
[[http://www.renateferro.net/trunk_video.htm ]]
 
  
Editorial on public projection
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C.E.B. Reas
[[http://www.loreleipepi.com/siren/2006/09/projection-bombing-animated-city.html]]
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[[http://reas.com/media/ti_s.mov]]
  
SAIC panels on graffiti: 
 
4:30 Maclean center, 1307 OMA School of the Art Institute Film Screening “Style Wars”;
 
Feb. 20, 4:30 Graffiti Artist Talk,
 
MacLean Center Ballroom OMA
 
  
 
[[Category:IAM Classes]][[Category:Public Art]]
 
[[Category:IAM Classes]][[Category:Public Art]]

Revision as of 03:02, 15 February 2009

Week 4 (Feb. 17)– community art, interviewing, war memorials

field trip - Chicago Public Art Group; Jon Pounds 1259 S Wabash Ave Chicago, IL 60605 (312) 427-2724

Questions:


- If you have an idea for a community art project, how would you go about getting the community involved? - How would you find sponsorship and get commitments for participation? - Please describe the impact of some of your projects on the local community and beyond. - How do you decide where to do projects/place objects? - do you have a summer camp for kids? Do you think of your projects as art education as well as the other functions they serve? - when you decide to create a work, what factors determine the placement of the piece and how you go about gaining participation? - how do you feel about the permanence or impermanence of a piece? who maintains them after they are completed? - how would someone get involved in CPAG?

Interviewing

examples:

would you want to emulate this interviewer? [[1]]

what if the interviewer is looking for something different from the interview than the interviewee? (and what about running music behind an interview) [[2]]

interactive work on criminal justice system that includes interviews [[3]]

Where Are You From? interactive work on globalism and identity [[4]]


For the interviewer:

1. What do you want to know? what information is important for the audience?

2. What questions can you ask that don't foreclose upon unanticipated results, or

3. how can you ask questions that open up rather than close down communication?

4. What environmental or attitudinal factors could facilitate or inhibit communication?


For Veterans (sample questions):


1. When did you serve, and for how long?

2. What led you to join the service (what were your circumstances)

2a. What did you hope to achieve by serving?

2b. Do you think you did achieve that?

3. where and what were you assigned to do?

3a. what was that experience like for you?

4. What was it like when you came back?


pose open-ended questions

LISTEN to the answer as a way to formulate the next question

what does the person want to talk about?

War Memorials

  • What purpose do they serve
  • Who/what are they commemorating
  • What is their attitude toward war
  • Where are they situated


Tonight at Gallery 400, UIC, 5 PM [[5]]

C.E.B. Reas [[6]]