Sunday, March 30, 2014

Greyworld + Camille Utterback + Furtherfield + Marie Sester

Greyworld
  • Creates work in urband, public spaces
  • Work focuses on play
  • Subtle projects, most of their work in the beginning was sound based
  • Environmentally reflective projects
  • Founded by Andrew Shoben, an English academic, broadcaster, and artist.
    • Considered one of the world's leading practitioners of public art
    • Given many lectures and broadcasts on art in public
"Railings" (1996)

  • Railings tuned to play a song

"The Source" (2004)

  • Moves up and down when according to the stock market going up and down
"Trace" (2005

  • Sound oriented
  • As you walk through, conversations, laugher, and other things can be heard
"Clockwork Forest"

  • Key in tree
  • Plays music
"Public Toilet"

  • Public sculpture of a person squatting, pooing in public
  • Strong message for World Toilet Day
"Trafalgar Sun" (2012)

  • Bringing brightness and liveliness to England in a time of darkness
Camille Utterback

I can't understand what he's saying.
  1. Camille is a Interactive Installation Artist and ___.
  2. How does Camille engage participants to engage with her art?
    1. She uses digital technologies as a medium for interaction.
  3. What is Camille does to sense a users entire body to create a visceral connection between the real and the virtual?
    1. She uses Video Tracking software to do this. 
  4.  Why does Camille write her own software and design her own interfaces?
  5. By creating ____ she hopes to engage people emotionally and viscerally.
  6. Most people know Camille because of her most famous artwork known as ____.
  7. What is the significance between the cave drawings and her artworks
Furtherfield

  • Founded by Ruth Catlow and Marc Garett
  • Believes Art and Technology play an essential role in how we see our culture and society
  • Diversity and collectivity
  • Involved in Net art, Media art, Art activism, "Hacktivism" 
  • Ecological approaches to work a tte intersection of art
Feral Trade Cafe
  • Art exhibition + working cafe selling food and drinks shared over social media.
  • Provides opportunities for critical debate, exchange and participation in emerging ecological media art practices.
DIWO
  • Do it With Others
  • Mail Art projcet - corresponds with others across physical and digital mail networks
  • Second DIWO project initiated by Furtherfield
A Crowded Apocalypse
  • Crowd sourcing to create and simulate conspiracy theories
  • Symbol > Them(entities) > Evidence > Plots > Streets
  • Writing and protesting against conspiratory narratives
Marie Sester

"Tell Me the Truth" (2009-2010)
"Access" (2003)
"Beam" Narrative (2009)

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