2009 Spring: COLA 3950/5950 Art for the People/Art on wheels

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here is the finished product of our first official class outing on the greenway, oh the memories.

Media Mill Video

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andrea and i are going to take the trikes out and project on the mcnamara center on east bank on wednesday night after the river meeting for class.

we will be laser tagging and experimenting with livedrawing and other projects. please join us on the bicycles too.

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Minneapolis Art on Wheels projection outing during Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art. Used poem interpretation of Pres. Obama's inaguration speech regarding Muslims in the Middle East.

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Hi. I made around fifty recordings with my portable field recorder during the Spark festival. I'm just starting to sort through them and post short segments along with a few paragraphs of descriptive text on my sound blog, Audio Cookbook (audiocookbook.org). There's more to come, but here are a few of the entries I've produced so far:

http://audiocookbook.org/audio_news/michael-croswell-at-spark-festival/
http://audiocookbook.org/audio_news/sound-captured-from-kanta-horios-installation/
http://audiocookbook.org/audio_news/free-turntablism/
http://audiocookbook.org/audio_news/metamorphoses-by-clifton-callendar/
http://audiocookbook.org/audio_news/joel-ryan-and-keir-neuringer/
http://audiocookbook.org/audio_news/captive-mosquitoes-make-music-in-innovative-installation/

Please have a listen, and comments are welcome.

Cheers!

-John

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Hey all,

So I've got some raw footage from the Spark outing in Cedar Riverside. Would anybody have an interest in editing it down to a 1-2 minute summary? If you are interested, but don't know editing software, i can give an overview of Final Cut Pro or iMovie if we must.

let me know.

-Andrea

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wow, anyways, congratulations on spark being a major success, it was good to further get to know everyone in the class, but also finally see some work in action on outings and seeing people perform.

with that said, would anyone be willing to examine the possibilities of going to media city in windsor, ontario?

15th EDITION of media city
is May 20-23, 2009

http://www.houseoftoast.ca/mediacity/Home.html

media city has been a staple of video and contemporary real time media for many years now. i have gone to it before, it was absolutely extraordinary and it gives you a feel of what is going on elsewhere

Continue reading "VIDEO ART DEBAUCHERY! Vive Winnipeg, l'enfer oui!" »

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Checking out walls around the Weisman for a July performance with collaborator David Steinman (pictured).

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in watching the various outings from the minneapolis art on wheels website, i became really thrilled by three in particular that stood out.

1. the outing that was in the "798 Art District" in Beijing, China was an absolutely beautiful display of wordplay and movement in simplicity upon all the buildings by using poetry. Hank Colton's poetry and how interactive the portable projectors were with the crowds of people was truly like a dance. not to mention, the fact the videos soundtrack was an orchestrated version of kraftwerks, "komputerliebe" totally made me listen over and over repetitively to it. it was a transformative experience and sparked more ideas of art.

2. the video documenting the beijing film academy was one of the first films i ever saw for the minneapolis art on wheels performances. the reactions of the people on the street were what i enjoyed most, children, young middleaged people watching as the projections of water&dye, roses and branches (all organic in form) being shown inorganically. the silouettes made the visual language more powerful.

3. MAWs collaboration with the obsidian arts in the "obsidian of the north" was truly one of the reasons why i wanted to take the class. community involvement was the key in this documentation because it involved a neighborhood that was predominantly black displaying art that had a face an individuality to it. there were profiles projected of history of famous faces and everyday people. the children dancing infront of the screen showing the interface before the actual projection was precious. this is why art shouldn't be restricted to a gallery or a wall, but the whole world is your projection screen. not to mention the album leaf song made it even more touching!

art for the people is truly what i think MAW is about and there are many more videos i could have commented on, but these i chose because they exhibited the reactions to the crowd in a way that were touching and the subject matter was all very diverse. whether it was china or ne minneapolis, it was like bringing this virtual visual world to the reality in which we live.

maj

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Projected Content

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