The Soul selects her own society,
then Shuts the door.
e. dickinson

Friday, November 2, 2007

TV Clock



Materials:

1. 12 TV monitors set up as a round face of a clock, each TV represents an hour.
2. Specific (cable) TV shows which play at that exact hour for 1 hour in am/pm.
3. not sure the size

Process:

1. each TV set will play a TV show for an hour, the rest will be off/idle.
2. it'll go around the clock
3. someone needs to figure out how to synchronize eastern standard time to trigger or have TV show played at that hour.
--> a TV show rerun of time-->no such real time, only marked on the circular face-->TV show signifies 'segmentation of time into the domestic sphere', in which, an hour long episode (including commericial breaks) measures/solidifies a 'TV of the Self'--> TV abstracts time from the viewer-->the body/person as 'clock'--> death.

*concept inspired by David Morley's essay "The Construction of everyday life: political comunication & domestic media."

Installation: Post-myspace Minimalicious, ruff notes



Materials:

1. large, bare white, all white room with 4 walls.
2. 8 top friends
3. blocks for interface/push-buttons
4. or just a white box

How would it be interactive?

1. if you touch/tap a friend, they will
answer any question you ask, sing you
a profile song, comment on you, share their
interests in music, books, movies, educational background,
etc.. If they like you, they will ask to be your friend,

2. an attempt to tangibilize the space.

3. you can actually walk around, inside the page.

4. experience it as an actual body/living space--though not a space to live in but physically interact in.

5. encounter people in the flesh and decide if they could be a potential friend.

But why can't we do this anywhere else, like in a coffee shop?

1. Because certain public places may come equipped with interpersonal expectations.
Persons are already expected to have eye-contact, bump into each other, hide behind a book,
etc. Also, their "myspace-selves" are hidden behind their clothes, locked away within their bodies.
An open white space, a typical gallery space, effects personal/intimate approach to a living/breathing person,
creating a futhered distancing through inherent sterility invoked by the whiteness or breaking through that and
increasing intimate/friendly engagement. Anyway, it raises questions about "Top 8" in the way friendships are 'measured'
or when you see someone else's Top 8 and wonder what that person is really like--> if "really" is in itself solipsistic.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Velcro TV: can flow be tangible?




Materials:

1. multiple strips of velcro to cover large scale wall or one
large rectangular strip of velcro.
2. projector
3. tv images/flow projected onto the velcro
4. someone to unstrip the velcro during TV projection.

Considerations:

How does this satisfy the desire to make TV flow tangible in the process
of unstripping (an image) (via velcro)?

What about the sound of velcro in conjunct to the TV flow?
Does velcro-sound work in tandem with or against or as a
distraction to the flow?

Velcro as a filter to create/suggest physical tangibilities of the flow.

An attempt to "scratch" at the flat moving-image; to grasp the flowing river of images.

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*these sketches inspired by critical texts on TV in Lynne Joyrich's Tv/Tv: Alternative & Commercial Television
Fall 2007 course.
University of Stockholm: 1st to introduce a fashion studies program the way it does.
http://www.fashion.su.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=4604&a=15915

University of London: Literature & Medicine?
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/english/pg/masters/litmed.html

Monday, October 29, 2007

Velcro Grass





So basically, what happens when nature gets like way too intense? When the immensity of it just doesn't seem real? When it makes you want to just rip it apart to see whats underneath all of it? Like cutting through it with scissors and then gluing it back together? Velcro Grass 3000 might be a way to solve this impulse. By making grass removable with velcro, you can take it anywhere you want to go or simply un-patch the grass the way you would velcro on a shoe. Those desires to "un-patch the grass" are possible with a few easy steps. The process is under construction, creators are on standby.

Here's what a few people had to say about Velcro Grass 3000:

"Yeah, you know, I've like been having this tick to rip off the tiny patch of grass from its lawn in front of the 7-Eleven. But like how do I do that without being able to patch it back?"

-Carol Steinbeck, Los Angeles

"In the future, whose idea of public velcro grass and order will be in velcro spaces? That is perhaps the greatest question we have to face. You can look at a landscape and you can see it as perfect in itself. Or you can look at it as undeveloped velcro grass. Those are very two different points of view. Who will make the public velcro grass in that space?"

-Julia Roberts, Mona Lisa Smile

"I think being able to displace your intuitive senses of the grass calls to our attention the ability to displace the projections we place upon it. If only we could do this on an emotional level. Imagine being able to un-patch any feelings of anger or guilt. That would be the next step, to alleviate aggressive states of mind through velcro."

-Pema Chodron Rinpoche, Nova Scotia

"We're still working on dismantling all those old binary oppositions and the differences between the grass and un-patching. All those 'un-patchings' and all those grasses are really part of a large framework of centers and margins all together."

-Tony Hedgewick, Lincolin, Nebraska