McIntyre Library Exhibition: Student Installations, April 2011

Link: News Release

Link to Balloon installation video
The Balloon Team:  Lee Wegener, Mathias Hughey, Matt Ludvigson, Kelly Farrar, Laura Kelleher, Megan Byron

LInk: Jake  discussing group installation project in McIntyre Library.  April 28, 2011
String Scupture Team:  Jake Heitzig, Chen Xiangyun, Teresa Larrabee, Kelsey Kocvara

Video Theater of Violence 

Video Theater Team:  Anna Havens, Phillip Schladweiler, Jamie Nelson, Travis Thorson

Video theater content

Live performance with video projection.
Performance Team:  Brent Crawley and Ashley Tong 

images by Chen: St John University installations

Video theater construction

Well It's all coming together and we're all very excited to show this work. Well to be honest, we're all a little nervous considering the subject matter. We just want to say that we appreciate the opportunity to express our collective views on what is happening in the world's media and basic life of us all. Hope the message is felt and not avoided!

frames for string project

UWEC: McIntyre Library Breezeway exhibition space

Jyl's Estimate: 8' ceilings, 60'x120' (?)

There is a smaller adjoining room that can be used as well.  No windows, approximately 20'x40'(also estimated by Jyl)
Shades can be drawn on windows or coverings can be placed over glass if necessary.
Furniture can be removed.

Link to inside experience

So here are some sketches of our installation.

Our installation involves a constructed space that will enclose hundreds of inflated balloons. There will be an entrance into the space at one end. The opposite end will have a projection of the word "FULL". The interior of the space will be visible from all sides because the walls will be made of transparent plastic. The audience is invited to enter the space and interact with the balloons. Our hope is that the balloons will gradually be popped, creating more open space in the structure. As the balloons pop, more of the word "FULL" will be readable. We want to question how the space inside the structure (and inside the balloons) is percieved. Is it full when the balloons are inflated? Is it full when the balloons are popped?

As of right now, our installation takes up an area about 27' x 10'. Is this too big? If so, we have ways of making it take up less space. Where would be a good place for us to install. You guys know the space better than we do, so feedback would be helpful on this matter.

Thanks!

-The balloon team

Installation Question

Hello, SJU!

My group and I were considering creating an installation that would potentially hang from the ceiling above the stairwell in the photographs posted here on the blog and hang down to the ground floor. We were wondering if someone could tell us if this would be possible logistically and what the dimensions of that large open space are - including how high the space is from the ground floor all the way up to the ceiling of the second floor. If this doesn't sound like a completely bonkers installation space, we would also really appreciate any more photos of the space to better feel it out from our location. Also, we're wondering how much foot traffic that walking space next to the stairwell sees in the typical two day range that will see our works installed.

Thanks a lot!

Jake, Teresa, Chen, and Kelsey

Installation piece

Hey everybody,

There are five of us working on an installation piece that, in a way, follows the life of a package as it goes through its transit from being created, all the way through the postal service, and then to its destination. We plan on uploading content very soon to ask for critiques and to hear everyone's recommendations for our installation piece. We are all looking forward to seeing everyone's finished installations!

SIlence In Your Eyelids

Hello gang,

Nick and Ben here, just sharing our idea for our installation piece. For our installation, Nick and I are wrestling with the idea of silence within the time before we go to sleep. As all of us may have seen before, when most of us close our eyes we typically see specific patterns, blobs, and colors in the inner eye lid just when we close our eyes. Our idea is to show a person already prepped and ready for sleep. The figure lays down, looks at the clock, lays down and closes its eyes when patterns, blobs, colors and other ambiguous figures fill the vision of our internal silence. Mind you, this video will incorporate mostly a subjective camera with blinking effects to mimic the realism of the act. Also, we thought it imperative to keep our video as a constant loop. For example, we were thinking of having our person wake up throughout the ambiguous silence to check the time on an alarm clock. As well as, not having every ambiguous sequence remain the same. Let us know what your thoughts, concerns, clarifications and ideas you may have for us.

Any feedback is good feedback!

-Ben & Nick

P.s. A preliminary video illustrating this idea will be viewable this week, fo sho!

Silence Live Performance

Hello All!

Brent Crawley and I (Ashley Tong) have been working on a live performance idea. He will be loading up a piece of a trial that we are working on shortly. The main idea is to use language and the body to show the power of an individual. While also using the theme of silence to break up the segments. We will be using projectors and LOTS of words to help make our project come alive.

first meeting (a little late i know)

John Cage inspires eight contemporary artists in Cage Mix at Gateshead's BALTIC center

(Above) Paul Ramirez Jonas, Paper Moon (I Create as I Speak), Detail, 2007, Multimedia. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY

Link to article

St John University potential exhibition spaces

The first meeting for this project by UWEC students.

Link to exchange project from Spring 2010

Welcome St John students and UWEC students!
This link (click here) is from a project last year where my UWEC students collaborated with students in Riga Latvia.  The blogsite functioned as a place to share images and events while we were in the process of creating the final project.  Since we didn't know one another it was a good way to share any kind of information, break the ice and inspire one another. Eventually, it became a documentation of the project.
I encourage you all to upload photos of your groups working, document ideas, post articles of interest.   Have fun with this.  It is entirely what you make it.

John Cage: "On Silence" (4 minutes)

Welcome to the UWEC-SJU Blogsite

Greetings UWEC and SJU students!
This site functions as a place to correspond between schools and to document our project.
Please post updates on any aspect of your projects with images to share between schools.