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March 13-20, 2008            

 
         

4.56 billion years on this water planet were researched by 60 students. Fourty students used the library and twenty used the internet to mine information to fill the used water bottles with citations spanning 4.56 billion years to present. Students researched "water" on a broad spectrum; a flood of books and blogs on topics ranging from synchronized swimming and "ice" aka "bling" to meteorites and seed banks in ice. After a frenzied research session in the gallery, each student was asked to pick three points in time to citate and insert into a bottle for the wall timeline. The arc of the timeline is made using nails collected from the deconstructed wooden palettes.  
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The Reverse Ark was prefaced with a symposium:
March 13-14, 2008
ANYTIME, ANYPLACE: A
Art Collectives in the 21st Century.





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Schedule

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10am-1pm:
Water Timeline Research: 4.56 billions years ago to present.

Extreme Researh:
40 students library
40 students internet

Compare research
Research in a bottle.

2pm: Work session

Building the Ark, hanging the timeline and inserting research citations in bottles


 

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7-10pm: Screenings

Protein Synthesis: An Epic on a Cellular Level, 1971
Director: Rober Alan Weiss
for the Dept. of Chemistry at Stanford University.
Link

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1. Excertp from:
The Future is Not What it Used to Be.
Director: Mika Taanila
Documentary film on Erkki Kurenniemi who build the legendary DIMI synthesizers in the late 1960's. The Dawn of Dimi contains excerpts of his projects and his attempt to archive his life.

2. Excerpt: Human simulation of computer operations.
Link

3. Darwin's Nightmare, 2004
Director: Hubert
Sauper
Darwin's Nightmare is a tale about
humans between the North and Sount
about globalization, and about fish.
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