Artist Index

aka: Ways to Procrastinate

F.T. Marinetti; “Foundation Manifesto of Futurism;” Le Figaro 1909

We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits, shining like them with the prisoned radiance of electric hearts. For hours we had trampled our atavistic ennui into rich oriental rugs, arguing up to the last confines of logic and blackening many reams of paper with our frenzied scribbling.

An immense pride was buoying us up, because we felt ourselves alone at that hour, alone, awake, and on our feet, like proud beacons or forward sentries against an army of hostile stars glaring down at us from their celestial encampments.

Goya

Goya
"Self-Portrait with Easel"
1790-1795

Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin
"Ceramic Vase with a Caricature Self-Portrait"
1889

Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann
"Self-Portrait with Crystal Ball"
1936

walking on water

Lifesize Wireless Jigsaw Puzzle Game Installation Thingy

I have an idea for a semi-large scale installation. It's basically a giant jigsaw puzzle which requires people to work together to solve the puzzle. And by work i mean move.

(The puzzle could be a still photograph or maybe even running video.)

The idea is that over a given area--say 50ft by 50ft--each person's location can be triangulated. Each person playing the game will be matched to a given piece of the puzzle. The puzzle is projected on the wall or ceiling--somewhere where it's easy for all to view. As the people move, their piece of the puzzle moves along with them on screen. 

As people move close to their true neighboring pieces--the ones they fit together with--their pieces can snap together on screen (and hopefully their are some auditory and visual clues like highlighting around successful piece matches). 

As people are forming "groups" the groups may have to shift around together in order to continue to solve the puzzle while the other remaining pieces fall in line.

this is a first draft btw, so here are some things to figure out:

How can we triangulate locations of participants in such a relatively small field? It would be cool to be able to do it with WiFi or RFID--something people use everyday without really thinking about it--but i don't know how successful it can be. 

How can we get a computer to slice up a puzzle randomly and assign random pieces to people?

"What are you gonna do..."

My first post is basically a manifestation of me over-thinking everything :)

"The Kitten's Pur"

Peter Davies 1997 The Hot One Hundred

Upcoming events, News

cherrylanetheatre.org/CLTRentalRatesSheet.pdf (tba)
Update:
The Cherry Lane Theater has studio space ( the 60 seat theatre) starting Jan. 15th.

Reminders

http://www.lmcc.net/grants/downtown/grantpubspaces/index.htm
http://www.formassembly.com/forms/46339

Calendar

Project Mail art

Marinetti 1909 The Futurist Manifesto

1.We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.
2.The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, audacity and revolt.
3. Literature has up to now magnified pensive immobility, ecstasy and slumber. We want to exalt movements of aggression, feverish sleeplessness, the double march, the perilous leap, the slap and the blow with the fist.

(It sort of goes down hill from here, but to continue reading, click on my comment)

David Shrigley

Project Manifesto

Club Dodeedo:

1. To exchange ideas, share work, collaborate, create.

2. Similar to a book club, each gathering will have a unique theme, voted on by the members and held on a regular basis in a studio or performance space. For instance, it could be a reading, a brainstorm session, a critique, a media installation, a photo shoot, a silkscreen workshop, a VJ / DJ project or a combination thereof. The list goes on.

3. Each member will be required to prepare work (unfinished, a gesture, an idea) to be brought in based on the theme of the gathering.

4. Members may trade roles such as creator, editor, audience.

Joseph Beuys 1970 Fluxus Manifesto, a reworking of Maciunas' Manifesto of 1963

Next Meeting Time, Venue, Theme

1. Looking for space for the kick off and for future gatherings. Options now include:
Blackbird Parlour
The Cherry Lane Theatre (on Commerce)
Collective:Unconscious
Galapagos
HERE Arts Center
The Kitchen
La Mama
Nuyorican Poet’s Café
Ontological-Hysterical Theatre
PS122 (Mabou Mines)
St. Ann's Warehouse

2. Would next weekend be a possibility?

3. Theme:
"Coming Soon"