Introduction to the course
> Examples:Grand Scale Community and Locative Project: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/eproyecto.html
UNDER SCAN is a large-scale public art project commissioned by the East Midlands Development Agency in England. Thousands of "video-portraits" taken in Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton and Nottingham will be projected onto the ground of the main squares and pedestrian thoroughfares of these cities. At first, the portraits will not be visible because the space will be flooded by white light coming from the world’s most powerful projector. As people walk around the area, their shadow will be cast on the floor, revealing the video-portraits. The short video sequences begin with the subjects in a still position turned away from the camera. As they appear within pedestrians' shadows, their bodies move and their heads turn to look straight at the pedestrian, potentially giving rise to an interesting range of interactions. When a shadow moves away from a portrait, the portrait likewise reacts by losing interest and looking away. With the assistance of a large team of developers, ArtReach production and Stage Right staging.
Smaller One Week Scale Surveillance Project: Works with local community where the students attempt to engage the local community in their work and get some kinds of interaction from them. The students start out very proper in their approach and in the end are practically stalking them.
Tomaotoes and Other Surveillance Works Koeln 2003
Locative Community Project
Aware Environments Project
Forming the ideas
- Which project do you like? Pick and split into two groups. Divide into two rooms.- Brainstorm and discuss project areas. What is it about? What issues might we encounter? What areas come to mind inside these sub-themes?
- During this discussion you will find yourself gravitating to some themes over others. Find like minded students and form groups of 3 around a sub-theme (or set of sub-themes)
- Take away ideas to research background and develop further
- Read the suggested papers and bring notes to discuss next week