Art for the People/Art on Wheels (COLA 3950/5950)

this is one of the bikes. pre speaker cabinets and color coded cords or lens caps

here is a pic of the bike on its experiment marathon

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Last night was a test run for people to try various videos &c. that they have been working on. We discovered some things, projection on black glass ie Carlson does not really work. Projection on bricks seems difficult unless the image is primarily light colored. Also seems it would be better if there was not a lot of contrast between the mortar and brick color. Everything worked with the generator till we ran out of gas. then we borrowed power from exterior outlets, of which there seems to be a plethora of on campus.
see below, Dave, meta or something and a test image for my Ebenezer project

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1/3 :: Build three mobile broadcast units
2/3 :: Prepare visual and sonic content for projection and broadcast
3/3 :: Make outings, spread beauty, collaborate with The Unconvention

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Title: Art for the People, Art on Wheels
The focus of this course is the form and function of art in our present day environment. This course will be a hands-on study of the practice of making public art as well as a historical and theoretical study of present day public art. The primary medium in this course is video; students will be asked to scavenge, edit and create video works. With the aid of various grants, we will construct a number of mobile projection units. Each of these units will be made up of a specially designed bicycle (http://flickr.com/photos/urban_data/452740396/), a generator, a laptop, a powerful project and a control interface. The mobile units will allow us to project visuals onto our urban environment (walls, buildings, streets, trees) as a way to create a form of ephemeral art. The models for this approach are organizatinos like Graffitti Research Labs (http://graffitiresearchlab.com/).

For Video examples of GRL's work:
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=92#video
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=95#video

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