My Rhizome proposal for my summer project, solarCircus, has made it to the final voting round. It is one of 25 proposals, and Rhizome typically funds 9. So I have a better than 33% shot of funding.
If you are a Rhizome member, please help me and PARTICIPATE IN THIS DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, i.e. rank solarCircus #1. There are tons of interesting proposals, and some not-so-interesting ones so here’s your chance to be a juror! Your vote matters.
How to vote…
1) Login to Rhizome.
2) Then go to this voting webpage:
http://rhizome.org/commissions/2010/ranking.php
3) Then click “BEGIN RANKING FINALISTS”—
You then number from 1-25 and I hope you pick my project, solarCircus, as #1. You don’t have to rank all the projects but the more you choose to rank the more your vote is “weighted.” If you want to read about my project click the “solarCircus” link in “Commissions: Ranking Proposal Finalists” or just click this: http://rhizome.org/commissions/2010/proposal.php?proposal=1139
I know, I know, it’s a lot of clicking and thinking. But democratic process takes time and energy. Sorry to ask you this but I could sure use the $$$ this summer to fund production. THANK YOU for supporting my creative efforts.
SolarCircus study, a hacked solar walking king crab
Holmes will be a speaker at the Chicago Computational Design Forum on May 12th at 6pm. Holmes will give a short lecture titled Greenmedia Futures: Art and Technology to Promote Sustainability. Matthew Herman will give a talk titled Informing Design – Building Performance Analysis. Program is open to the public. Location: Gensler, 11 E. Madison St. 3rd Floor.
Animation still, FRESH 3.0 (2009)
If you are in the Windy City please drop by the Jean Albano Gallery at Art Chicago this weekend (Booth 549, 12th floor) at the Merchandise Mart. There is tons of interesting art to examine, including FRESH 3.0–a new version of a dynamic animation that shows scrolling unnatural landscapes of bottled water label nature imagery.
The FRESH project attempts to raise awareness about the high cost of bottled water in cities where citizens have access to good quality tap water. This particular composition was generated by custom animation software written by the artist. The software creates a quirky tableau of artificial landscapes found on labels of popular brands of bottled water. The images seem familiar. Stripped of their bar codes and corporate logos, the mountains and waterfalls are ironic symbols for a product that is proven to have harmful effects on the environment.