First Group Meeting

Hoorah! Hello Group!

So this is what we talked about today. (Nikita, sorry you couldn't make it, but this recap is for you).

Each of us is going to develop 2 ideas into (vague, yet specific) work plans that we will combine into one work plan on Monday, when we meet at 12pm at 2 w 13 on the 4th floor. Jamie will email us her ideas to look over for that meeting. The idea is to make a bigger proposal and narrow it down later.

Today we talked about that we are all interested in:

• Non-verbal communication
• Interactive art
• Doing an on-site project that is presented elsewhere, possible with GOLES or the church, or at New School
• Using resources we have
• Combining multiple media into a video format for presentation

Some other ideas that came up:

• Doing something in the park near SPURA (installation, event)?
• Calling attention to personal histories
• Putting what we come up with on You Tube
• Holding elected officials accountable through media coverage
• Objectivity vs. exploring potentials of different media
• Looking at people more personally, not just as demographics

Jamie was interested in using the data we collect with a non-verbal project as research. She is also interested in a sound installation that would simulate walking through SPURA or having residents engage in a model-making process of the SPURA site.

Hannah was interested in getting the perspective of people on the periphery, possibly using video installation or something like the confessional booth idea that Jamie brought up in class. She was also interested in video interviews that could be translated from various languages.

I am interested in involving the youth and the elderly. I would like to do a visual mapping project with residents, which could be combined with Jamie's sound installation idea in video format. I also had ideas about signage leading to the SPURA site, or having ways for people to mail their drawings of SPURA ideas to us or GOLES. I think it might also be fun to organize an informal party where people can talk about SPURA.

For our group work plan, we need to decide:

• What medium(s) does our project take?
• What is the scope?
• What are our goals?
• What is the question our project tries to answer?
• What is our strategy?
• What are our production plans?
• What is a timeline of what we need to get done?
• What role does art play in our project?
• Who is our audience?

Please post any ideas, photos, sketches, scans of your journals, or whatever you think you'd like to share with the group to this blog.