meeting notes - 10/25/2011
Excursions -
Alan - performance at Eyebeam. African American Burial Ground near City Hall Park. Business, security, place of rest/mourning/lamentation - monument, low mounds, museum. 1) looking at architecture of power, concentration camp in Poland (Eyebeam project space) 2) looking at monument downtown. Architectures of lamentation. Making private experience public. The hug as smallest space you can make. Hug <> Hut. Pia Lindman (ritualized grief). Theresa Brennan (affect). November/December - afternoon.
Nova - tour of most socially dysfunctional public spaces in New York. Open to collaboration. Any takers? Or needs more time. How is dysfunctional defined? POPs - "Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience" http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/priv/priv.shtml - William Wythe - The Secret Lives of Public Spaces. Libraries as public spaces.
Taeyoon - 1) Private/public spaces, Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPs) - Wall Street - uncomfortable, heavily controlled. Sound/noise. Soundtracks. 60 Wall Street. Sense of insecurity that the space gives to individuals. What are the laws, how are they operated? Surveillance. What are the unspoken rules dictated by the space. Smell, odor, and how that plays into the negotiation of authorized actors and activities. Scent branding. Who can sit - Arizona and illegal immigrants. Citizenship and rights of access. Image analytics - dwell-time (dwelling too long), counter-flow (deviance in normalized flow). New normatives produced by algorithms. Non-place (Marc Auge). Public School New York. 2) Unrealized plans of Robert Moses - highways, bridges. Going to a place and imagining what might have existed. Steve Duncan - http://www.undercity.org/
Jordan - <strike>embedded sensors</strike> Unmanned Arial Vehicles - UAV Forge - DARPA - http://www.uavforge.net/ - Cooper Union visit where drone building activity is happening. DIYdrones - http://diydrones.com/ - engineering, computer science, cross-disciplinary team. Trevor Paglin's work on dark sites. Visual feeds vs operational crew. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1107/msg00095.html - December launch test.
Kaho - invite game designer to run a game that includes urban space. Come out and play. Day-long or couple of hours.Weekend?
Stefani - is here more as a surveyor. Relations to sustainability research group. Food, smell and public space. Curriculum at Parsons relating to food and built environment. October 31 - deadline for Rockefellor Foundation grant. LOI - 320 words.
Mary - 1) NY Public Library off-site storage (preferred), 2) NY Ghost hunting tour, 3) Environmental hazards - NYC is an experiment on our lives. EMF fields. Cell phone towers.
Jason - Highline, haunting - commercial sex venues. Development of Times Square, Chelsea Piers. Influence of commercial interests in closing down or changing spaces. Unearthing past presences in present spaces. Sandra Delaney(?) - Time Square Red / Time Square Blue. Limelight. Groups of people reminiscing about other times/spaces. How public spaces are inhabited now. 11th St prostitution. How urban redevelopment has evacuated or reshaped sex practices. Contemporary sex work.
Slava - augemented reality works around the city. Looking for a way to develop a critique of the genre and the technology. Juxtaposing the more commercial uses with the more public art and mixture of the two. Green Box (Beck's) inhabited by art work. Public ad campaigns. Replacing billboard ads with art. Artvertiser - http://selectparks.net/~julian/theartvertiser/ - formats of analysis. Critique of access. http://www.mobilemonday.nl/talks/kevin-slavin-reality-is-plenty-thanks/
Mark - Wall Street security apparatus tour - sensors/actuators for security, actuators/roadblocks, security apparatus - symbolic dimmension. Night tour. Architectural dimmension of control technologies. Normally invisible, here there is a strong visible manifestation of some other dimmensions. Protective, defensive vs control.