http://www.futurefarmers.com/communectivity/blog/index.php thoughts, documentation, inspiration for the workshop Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:59:02 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 amy@futurefarmers.com amy@futurefarmers.com en Watch out for the lewd gnomes! Nice (and scarrrry) public space hack. http://www.futurefarmers.com/communectivity/blog/index.php?p=32 Chalk interventions on objects of status in the neighborhood. Next time this motorbike owner steps onto the street he/she will be reminded of their coolness. http://www.futurefarmers.com/communectivity/blog/index.php?p=31 We set up a cup phone on the street for people to talk up to us during the workshop! The idea was to stream the audio live over the internet from passerbyers! http://www.futurefarmers.com/communectivity/blog/index.php?p=30 the actual project Intended use by the city architecutre is a monument - a symbolic statue of a man, a monument for the union workers. The underdog, the working class, the masses... I observed that the actual use or the most attention towards this statue is from the pigeons also ... http://www.futurefarmers.com/communectivity/blog/index.php?p=29 Open for discussion to develop the idea "it's OK to let your emotions wander in public space" . how can we provoke and document emotional response that is conveyed through people's looking in a confined public space where really nothing special happens? Our intervention could take place in a tram http://www.futurefarmers.com/communectivity/blog/index.php?p=28 Links on a technology based intervention (arjen keesmaat) and a lo-tech one (tutofuocco+previdi) on public spaces http://www.lookingglass.be/en/past/expo_32.html http://www.flashartonline.com/issues/239italia/esteticasituazionale.asp http://www.futurefarmers.com/communectivity/blog/index.php?p=25 http://www.futurefarmers.com/communectivity/blog/index.php?p=24 Break the word question down to its root--quest--and you get a sense of the insurgent inquiry practiced by artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla. Their poetic and unabashedly activist conceptual art challenges everything from common definitions--they define protest as "proactive testing" and responsibility as "the ability to respond"--to concepts like ... http://www.futurefarmers.com/communectivity/blog/index.php?p=23 There is a very inspiring exhibit in Rotterdam, the Netherlands called Start/Content presenting the work of OMA-AMO Rem Koolhaas. For those of you who cannot visit the exhibit there is a wonderful (cheap) new publication out that goes with the exhibit called CONTENT You can pick it up at any good bookshop ... http://www.futurefarmers.com/communectivity/blog/index.php?p=22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 13 th of june, there will be elections for the european parliament, Flemish Council, Council of the Walloon Region, German Community Council, Council of the Brussels-Capital Region. Public space will be full of poster of the political parties. As we know politcs are evolving towards easy one-liners, visual appearance ... http://www.futurefarmers.com/communectivity/blog/index.php?p=21