Overview

Project/History
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Motivation
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People
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Call To Artists
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Links
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Field Guide

Introduction
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Artists
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Proposals
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Survey Results
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Notes
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Questions
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Artists


The Great Park Project Field Guide to Surveying Open Space in Urban Areas invites artists, inventors, architects, urban planners, gardeners and citizens of this plant to contribute.


Amy Franceschini
Amy is a new media artist and educator. Her work is pervaded with images of growth-reminding us that both nature and our own creative natures are precious commodities that must be nurtured and sustained whether it is on the web or in our own backyards. Amy founded Futurefarmers in 1995, as a means to bring together multidisciplinary artists to create new work. She is currently teaching Media Theory and Practice courses at Stanford University and the San Francisco Art Institute. {www.futurefarmers.com} {www.communiculture.org} {www.atlasmagazine.com}

Great Park Contribution: Great Park Website/Concept, Solar Music Box/sundial, Ad-hoc Ecosystem, Great Park Fairytale: An Epic, Satellite Parks,
Seism-a-sketch.

Fiona Jack
Fiona hails from New Zealand. She makes art and books and is currently working towards an MFA at Cal Arts in Valencia, California. In 2003/4 Fiona ran a gallery in her studio at CalArts called The Small Gallery which showed artists from New Zealand and Australia. Her most recent work: Missing Peoples- A supplement to Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition was previewed at Gallery 727 in Los Angeles . This first edition of 188 copies of the book ‘Missing Peoples’ names the 139 nationalities of the world that are not included in the eleventh edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.


Great Park Contribution:

Proposals for El Toro Abstract Landscape Paintings in Warmington Homes
Color Schemes 3, 4 and 7 from Somerset at Creekside, Valencia.

Ryan Griffis
Ryan Griffis is a volunteer with the Temporary Travel Office in Los Angeles. The Temporary Travel Office is a non-existent organization that serves those interested in technological tourism and the politics of place. Ryan is also the organizer of YOUgenics, a multimedia platform for interrogating the social implications of genetic technologies.Collegiate Dictionary.

{Temporary Travel Office}

Great Park Contribution:
Bioremediation Plot Networks

Myriel Milicevic
Myriel is an artist/designer working across many media. She is currently finishing her masters at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy. Her Quantum Browser project, which she developed together with Axel Ebert, received a special award at the Third International Browserday. In 2001, she contributed to the "Paris" edition of the fashion album Visionaire, which was curated by Hedi Slimane, Design Director of Dior Homme. In 2002, she initiated together with Kevin Haywood theFetafarm Thinktank for Experiments in Berlin, exploring fields such as the overlap between the physical and virtual gaming environments.
{visit her website}

Great Park Contribution: Ad-hoc Ecosystem, Great Park Fairytale: An Epic, Satellite Parks, research

Richard Mortimer Humphrey
Richard is an engineer, inventor, and electronics specialist. His work embraces the demystification of technology and electrical engineering in a wide range of interactive sculptures, workshops and consultation. Rich is currently working at Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics CCRMA lab at Stanford University.

Great Park Contribution: Engineering Consultant

Stijn Schiffeleers
Working in many media Stijn reveals the subtleties of life via film, video and interactive installations. Stijn's work embodies a sense of play and sensitivity that reminds us to take a closer look at what surrounds us. Stijn lives and works between Gent, Belgium and San Francisco.

Great Park Contribution: Solar Music Box/sundial

Juan Ospina
Colombian graphic designer, currently working at Fabrica, After graduating
and doing jobs for OgilvyInteractive,Bogota. Not very good at writing about
himself. Interested in any way of communication he can get his hands on.
Currently interested in DVD authoring, illustration and programming.
{www.piterwilson.com}

Great Park Contribution: Ad hoc Ecosystem

Enrique R. Grullon
Enrique was born in the Dominican Republic, and moved to Orange County, California where he attended high school and university very close to the El Toro base. Enrique is an interactive designer and developer focusing on web applications and communication. He is currently living in Treviso, Italy where he is a consultant for the Interactive arm of FABRICA, Benetton's communication research center.
{www.co8.com}
Great Park Contribution: Ad hoc Ecosystem

Miki Yoshimoto
A nomadic artist and writer Miki Yoshimoto, who recently earned her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, often engages in multiple projects ranging from her own artistic practice and curatorial pursuits to creative writing. Her interests emerge out of a curiosity about the way in which civilizations evolve and the utopian ideals that fuel them. She is currently working towards publishing her first limited edition artist book titled An Impractical Guide to the Hoover Dam. Her recent essay on the Spiral Jetty is due to appear in the December issue of Sculpture Magazine. Miki splits her time between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Great Park Contribution:
Research + Photography

 



 

 

News

November 6
Postsuburbia Redefined:
Panel Discussion: Valdes, CLUI, Futurefarmers
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October 9

Opening California Biennial.
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August 27

Video Documentation/Field Research: El Toro Site.
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August 26

2-4 PM
Great Park Conservancy Design Meeting. [public]

7-8:30PM
Lecture [Dr.Michael Brown-environmental consultant]
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August 25

Field Survey, El Toro Site.

2-5pm
Leafleting/Interviews