Arts Fest Proposals: Due Wednesday, March 31

The Studio Arts Fest is fast approaching! The date for the event is Friday, April 30th- the Intermedia Department has traditionally participated in its own Open House, but this year we will be a part of the larger, all-school event.

I would like us to think about ways that we might participate as a class- a group project, event, collaboration, a flash mob, performance, etc. What can you think of? Something that might encourage viewer participation or that engages viewers in some way.

As a way to brainstorm ideas, please write a one-page proposal for a project. This will be due Wednesday, March 31st. The turn-around is quick- the goal is to get ideas down on paper for us to discuss. In your proposal, please include the following:

1. Project Title

2. Description of the project/what would happen

3. Description of the people participating and their roles

4. List of materials needed

5. Estimate of time needed to carry out the project/a timeline

Think of this as an exercise in writing a proposal for a grant- as an artist, this is a necessary skill. These are just some of the areas you might write about if you were applying for a grant for an artist project. So consider this an opportunity for you to exercise your writing skills and put ideas down on paper.

I look forward to hearing your ideas.

Landscape, Place, and Mediation-Ice Records

Landscape is still frequently experienced through representation and mediation, not actual experience of the place... Curator Steven Bode is quoted in a recent ART News article related to this topic: “The idea of ‘wild’ and the ‘other’ and the ‘unexplored’ is less seductive. We end up having to build a new relationship to landscape out of the portable frames of references that we all individually carry” (Wolff 2).

Artist Katie Paterson connected a cell phone to an Icelandic glacier: visitors to her gallery exhibition could hear the sounds of the hissing and cracking of its ice melting. In the Turning Over a New Leaf article in ART News, Steven Bode, director of the Film and Video Umbrella, is quoted: “What we’re seeing now, especially among younger artists, is this ominous idea of celebrating landscape while it’s on the verge of disappearing” (Wolff 1).

Katie Paterson's Website

Ice Records

Ice Records...

Different Trains

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Different_Trains

Composer Steve Reich utilizes both "concrete sound" and traditional instruments to create this work. He forms the melody from the speech of the participants on tape.

Installation/Site Specific - Seashia Vang

"There are Nearly Three Times as Many Animal Shelters in the United States as There are Shelters for Battered Women and Their Children"





Day 2



Day 1

Wasted Garden!

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http://carolyngracescherf.blogspot.com/2010/02/double-click-to-go-there.html

How we can create a new map for new territories

This Intermedia project affected the artist more than he thought. We were told to go bigger than we may be able to realize. I think I did that. You can see on the blog I created for this project: http://guiltyasdriven.blogspot.com/ how my ideas grew. Right now I am in the process of telling people about the blog to get comments and bring another level of interaction of public, art and artist.

At first, I thought I would just document how owners of registered vehicles in Cedar Rapids, Iowa were now guilty because of the implementation of civil penalty traffic cameras. The art would lie in the unknowing transformation of man. What I didn't see was there was something greater here.

The map is the setting or place where the events take place. We are all part of an inescapable map. This map tends to be static for us and we see it as it is, a series of frames we pass through.

If the perception of a registered car has been transformed into a brush of guilt that paints the city streets it travels black with guilt, then there is an opportunity to transform the map. Drivers can control the cars to essentially "black-out" areas upon the map or make areas even more important by not "blacking-out".

What could be created is a "new map" as art. A new map of the transformed world around us thanks to the imposition of traffic cameras!

--Cyprian Alexzander