I KNEW YOU PT. 1 (DEAR JAMES) CAME DOWN01/30/20110 Comment(s) Today we changed out “I Knew You Pt. 1 (Dear James)” for its final iteration, which read, “No You.” It only stayed like that for 10 minutes, though, while we developed a strategy for de-installation. The “No You” was about acceptance, a stage in the grieving process I haven’t yet reached. It seems somehow appropriate that the installation stayed with the overwhelming legal pads for as long as it did, followed next by a long stretch with “I Knew You” and a shorter stretch of “New You” and then this and nothing.
The last and final iteration
Coming down
The pieces in their entirety
And the walls were white againI want to express my deepest gratitude to the folks at PLACE for the opportunity to show this piece, and to TRADEcollaborators Research Club, Recess Gallery, Max Ogden and Elizabeth Lamb for their support. Most importantly, I want to thank Golden Rule volunteers Hannah and Ted Spas, Angel Davis and Tristan Bynum for their installation and de-installation help. I REALLY couldn’t have done it without you. Stay tuned for updates on follow-up projects coming out of this piece.
Wynde Dyer of Golden Rule has been painting as she watches TRADE.
WHAT A GREAT DAY AT THE MALL!01/10/20113 Comment(s) Gallery sitting was awesome this week! Got one painting finished, another started. There was a photo shoot, met a nice new fashion designer who’ll be sharing his wares at Golden Rule, and we brainstormed up some future mall installations. Yay.
Even though completing I Knew You Pt. 1 (Dear James) may have been the most painful experience of my life, the mall experience has been so great. I feel really honored to be a part of such an amazing collective of nice hard working artists!
2nd part of the interview with Nim Wunnan (Research Club) exploring the practicality of The Aspens
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The 1st upload of an interview with Nim Wunnan (Research Club) dialoging on The Aspens.
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Max Ogden created an interactive installation of the wide variety of maps produced by his software which visualizes open and publicly-owned data available in geographically-useful ways. Visitors are encouraged to explore a scroll of maps on an overhead projector or to view local geography through an augmented reality application.
Building super specific software for communities is awesome. If someone wants to make an application to map cats in their neighborhood, I will build it. The problem is, how do I make my cat database useful to the rest of the world? I want to create ontologies for communication. These will manifest themselves as digital document schemas that groups can use to talk to each other in a distributed fashion. “What?”: Glad you asked. http://activitystrea.ms = ontologies for social communication on the internet. http://akomantoso.org = ontologies for legislative communication between governments. If a community defines it’s own communication protocols then there will always be an open and accessible way to participate in a distributed network because the network will be built on top of the community built protocol. The antithesis of this idea is a monolith like Facebook who created a proprietary communication protocol and has no motivating factor for participating in a distributed system other than user backlash. Take a form of communication, like a group bike ride. Break it down into the smallest pieces: participants, route, start time, end time, theme, things you should bring Take those pieces and have a nerd convert them into a digital schema. Give your schema a name. Share your schema with the world in a centralized repository. Now anyone in the world who wants to build software the enables users to plan group bike rides can incorporate your schema into their design and as a by product their group bike rides will be automatically readable by all systems in the world capable interpreting group bike rides. Information silos suck. They suck even more when you realize they are a product of ‘Not invented here’ syndrome, which is an extension of nationalistic bias where you choose to re-invent the wheel because you fail to comprehend how someone who is ‘different’ than you could have possibly made something useful. Another motivating factor for information silos is private interest, which also sucks. I want information to be freely accessible to everyone, and to do that we have to start by defining what information is interesting to us. Do you have knowledge of anything that you ever might want to share with someone else (examples: scavenger hunts, group dinners, book clubs)? Can you describe this ‘thing’ and all of it’s individual components? Text lifted from Research Club
By Max Ogden
Project site:
http://github.com/maxogden
What They Do:
Contributed Recipe
Lessons They’ve Learned
Who They Would Like to Meet:
I would like to collect as many in depth descriptions of social activities as possible in order to contribute digital representations of those activities into a centralized activity repository such as ActivityStreams.
Too often this research is lost or devalued in the attempt to fit it into the boundaries of existing disciplines. Research Club works to provide a community in which all these products of critical thought and curiosity can flourish without pressure that they be related to a specific context.Research Club’s mission is to foster the exchange of ideas across many communities and to find ways that those communities can both support and benefit from their most passionate and inquisitive members. We feel that every active mind produces a body of research as it tries to satisfy its curiosity.
“Today we met up with the other Settlement collaborators to hash out the logistics of this insane last-minute curation of 3,000 square feet in Pioneer Place mall. We got everything blocked out and with the assistance of Hannah and Ted, we began organizing 20+ years and three US Mail bins of my deceased mother’s writings to her boyfriends in jail. No small task, that.”
Taken from Golden Rule’s very honest blog. We always love Wynde Dyer’s writing.
Tori Abernathy’s “Performativity Parlor” is a traveling, interactive performance/installation of a tiny cafe that sells edible prints. It’s circumventing the task of constructing and performing one’s identity via the choices, purchases, and stances enacted by the viewer, e.g. purchasing ones jeans at Juicy Couture vs. Salvation Army, or going to this particular space rather than watching T.V. at home with the fam. Instead, let’s just serve them to you directly(a la the trope “You are what you eat…”).
Wynde Dyer is working on installing 20 plus years of correspondence between her mom and someone close to her mom.
