some installation clarity...

Some great dialogue today, with my artist-teacher, provided some much needed clarity and direction.

For the exterior bench installation, I am going to focus on the installed audio and abandon use of the windows. I feel this is a good decision, as the windows are a distraction from the audio (and the audio experience is the point of this project).

I am very excited about furthering my explorations with audio and collecting more noises.
I already have some very interesting and connective audio "threads" which I am excited about. More posts to come. As always, much more to do.

installation trials

Sound is the dominant component of this work. Collected social noises flowing over a public space meant to allow a certain degree of introversion and solitude [bench]. For the past several weeks, I've been performing a certain degree of surveillance... collecting a wide variety of public and social noises from places such as: Mall of America, restaurants, grocery store, and amusement park. I am interested in the way in which individuals interact with one another in various public spaces.

In addition to exploring these various social & public noises, I am also working through various sculptural arrangements for the installation. I've been using a variety of collected windows, playing around with lines of sight, placement, and gesture. There is still something lacking in this arrangement. I'm going to print some imagery on mylar to adhere to some of the window glass. I will also be experimenting with materials to create visual distortion. More work. Much more.

surveillance of a chicago street block- audio_ captured (unedited)

I am currently collecting surveillance-type noises & video which contain evidences of either mass socialization or operational public interactions between individuals. Through trials and reworkings I am now experimenting with collecting noises and audio which contain evidences of mass socialization from public places. Below is a 16 minute track of collected audio from a linear street block in Chicago. This week I will record various interactive noise from restaurants and a mall. Next week I will record airport noise and applause from a performance.
I will then try out this new audio collection with the park bench installation (at a public site) for documentation and critique.
My hopes are to present passerby's with a multi-layered experience of displacement (socially, bodily, spatially) of sensory input and expectations. Through this use of displaced audio (in conjunction with the park bench) those engaged will need to work to reconcile notions of public and private as well as introverted spaces and spaces of surveillance. The windows set into the ground in front of the bench (at varying positions and degrees) are meant to operate as metaphors of social constructs -- as frames or evidences of architecture, community, industry and civilization (in various states of flux, operation, and existence).

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