Hey All,
Let this be our project check-in post. Leave a comment giving your status; it can be a description of your idea/concept, a status report of where you are on your project, or even "I'm stumped"/"Help me". This helps us all to organize and see each others' work as well as let me know where people are, and who needs some guidance. If you are planning to do a project but haven't a clue where to start, please let us know in a comment.
-Cory
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Here are my projects so far:
1) Co/Lab type project. Everyone check your email tomorrow for this collaborative project in .pdf form. This project involves everyone!
2) Sensory boxes. Working on this project with Greg, Rachael and whoever else would like to give input. We are thinking of having a series of boxes, being contained installations of audio/visual/olfactory stimuli designed to elicit certain emotions i.e. arousal, fear, happiness, anger etc. Still in conceptual/design phase.
3) Kyle and I were talking about a stencil/spraypaint board installation at the show where people can spraypaint different pieces of the co/lab monster logo with our pre-made stencils to make their own "build-a-monster".
4) I am everyone's partner, if you have an idea but have no one to work with, tell me and I will help you get started. Please do not hesitate to use me for labor.
That's it for now.
CO/LAB - PORTRAIT DEFACED - DISPLAY
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the idea being that everyone who has been an active member of the CO/LAB have their photo taken in the same setting and style as every other photo, for one very clear set of portraits to launch from.
these photos will then be re-distributed digitally to the group, with each photo of a person given to another person (ie: cory's photo is recieved by kate. kate's photo is recieved by kyle, etc.)
the photos can then be manipulated or re-created in whatever way desired (photoshop enhanced, scribbled on by hand after printed out, re-arranged, weathered and washed out, or completely re-drawn in any style, like mitzi was talking about - as long as the overall composition keeps the person's position to a certain degree, only so that every photo, once put together, still can work as one whole unit.) it would be cool to maybe put the monster in the middle. we could even do lines connecting one photo to another persons "defacer"
it would be good to get the photos done on thursday, so that they can be re-distributed to members to be worked on.
i have a rebel xti (10 mpxl) digital camera and tripod. maybe get a light kit for the photos?
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that last comment is from devin. i just dont have an account.
I think Justin had Yukiko and I working with him on a table to display the interactive white board that uses a wii-mote and an infared pointer. Since they're in Japan and I've been too broke to afford gas not much progress has been made in the last few weeks other than an initial brainstorm session to draw construction ideas.
Devin - I want to submit/receive a photo but I can't make it to the meetings... I can take one of myself and send it digitally? =)
yeah you can, i think they are going to just be taken from straight on with the person centered in the photo.
i can send you a digital copy of one of them on thursday so that you can see what they look like.
Here's what I'm working on:
#1 As mentioned above, I'm going to make stencils. They aren't too hard to make, so if anyone wants to help that would be good. The specifics still need to be decided, but it shouldn't be too tough. Cory, were you thinking that the co/lab people would paint the stencils? or would we let random people do it? Might cause problems if we give them that power..
#2 I think I'm going to make a big canvas type painting/collage/wheat paste thing with my roommate Roque. We don't have any solid plans yet though.
sorry i couldn't make it to the meeting.
here's my rough ideas
1) collective laboratory zine. this wouldn't have to be done for the show, but maybe show highlights of the show for later promotion purposes (would be sold). Also i would like this medium to be showcased, so things that look really good in print, playfulness or innovation with the actual format...or homage to the zine, would be great.
2) video art project. this one will either focus on dual natures, or hair. either way it will explore physical movement and mimic violence in absurd ways. if we go with the dual natures idea then it would be deal with the physical space between two people and different ways the two characters can infringe on that space. there will be a strange kind of push-and-pull between them as they may physically fight and yet seem to be two parts of a whole scene. i imagine two people in paper suits that have painted bodies on them and them getting into a mock fight in which they tear these paper suits to reveal clothed people with gauze over their faces. Or, one person covered in layers of blonde hair, the other pointing a hair dryer at them, menacingly.
if we go with the hair idea, then the scene above would be included. and two people looking in a mirror combing mustaches... etc?
i need video help and idea help for this project.
3) digital is handmade. I've been interested in how embroidery looks like digital art, like pixels. it is meticulous and often done on a grid format and it is associated with age old traditions. i want to do a project about this. maybe some large scale "embroidery" but only by hand drawing little squares, which blurs the line between the digital /folk art.
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i will post something more elaborate and with pictures, also maybe some other ideas. but this is it for now.
i came to the meeting on the 17th but not to the 24th, and i cant make this one. things got too disorganized in my own projects and i needed to get it together before i could think of extra projects. it's going remarkably well, so hopefully i can attend the next one and help anyone out on what they need to do, because i think introducing a project that late in the game would be disruptive.
anyway this is just a note saying that i haven't dropped out.
Alan, I encourage you to introduce your idea. Generating activity is what we need right now, and it would be far from disruptive. Gather your friends to help!
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