Tasmanian architecture / culture

Photo taken in the home and co-founder of Award winning Tasmanian architecture firm, Room11 http://www.room11.com.au/





.... and a great Australian tradition.

June, 2008

Louise Lumiere worked for the Navy

I'm reading an interesting book at the moment called 'Polar Inertia' by Paul Virilio (2000). I thought this was interesting: (p 9)

Louise Lumiere, at the Universal Exhibition of 1900 the French Navy lent him its most powerful searchlight to project his films on a large screen, in the famous Gallery of Machines. And in 1948, shortly before his death, he was still working to improve lighthouses for the Navy.

The birth of cinema was itself inseperable from the development of artificial light...

Let's meet 1 May to launch the website

whatsup Y'all !

Probably out last (or 2nd last) PPD meeting,
this THURSDAY, 1 May, 2pm, college canteen

If you are unable to attend, email or call me ASAP to make
suggestions for the points listed below.
We will be making vital group decisions about the website and our
final presentation at the meeting.

POINTS:

1. Ros will relay our proposal feedback.
We were given individual feedback forms that Ros will hand out at the meeting.
We did well, but have to discuss the 'holes'.

2. Decide / Articulate group identity - the tutor said the website
lacked common identity.
A matter of articulating more clearly the main thrust of the website
- the idea/s that bond us as a group of people.
'Virtual space / physical space' is currently too broad an identity.

2. Make a date to construct the website ie. upload images, decide
layout and front editorial feature.

3. Clarify our roles and discuss the final presentation 16 May.


See you on Thursday,
Tal

What the bleep do we know?

How much do we just assume thing and how much do we really know.What is reality and what is just illusion? Are we creators or are we just followers. The art we create is it our own creation or is it some thing else. If thought is only for a split sec how important are our thoughts and do they really matter. What the bleep do we really know..


Any of you seen this movie? did it affect the way you look at the things around you?

D5 taking the work to a different context. Does it affect your work or the way you think about it?

too many questions need some answers..

just one more thing...

if you have any ideas about FUNDING, should we really need it (eg, sponsors). please let me know- as I'm drawing a blank.

What we're about

Hi!

I'm posting below the intro (aims, content, methods) for our proposal; but we all need to have a think about how we see ourselves as a group, and what we intend to add/ glean from the project individually. I love that word.
Anyway. Please post your thoughts, especially if you want to make changes in the text, and also if you can think of a snappy summary to put on the website.

Invisible Show: Proposal

Aims:

The Invisible Show aims at providing a space where art can be created, shown and discussed. Unlike a traditional exhibition held in a discrete physical location, the Invisible Show is to live in the virtual environment. We hope to use this space to link together artworks, events and ideas in a way that reaches beyond the usual experience of the viewer; using the virtual space to remove the physical boundaries of space and time.

The concept of the Invisible Show acknowledges the importance of virtual space: it’s accessibility, its facility; and as a global framework. As such it is potentially powerful in housing ideas, making them visible across the world; as well as a means to promote itself. Furthermore, the virtual space lends itself to discourse much more easily than a traditional space. Thus, we also aim to establish a meaningful critical platform beyond the usual journalistic models; through which, individuals can express their opinions and add their ideas.

Content:

The show is to be composed of images, ideas and information- about art and about the show itself. Beginning as a blog between a group of students at Camberwell College of Art (UAL), we hope to see it grow in form and in reach. We aim to increase its internal structure by creating a website, adding images, including feedback from viewers, and documenting the show’s growth. We hope to grow the show in virtual space by linking it with existing sites, and so make it more visible.


Methodology:

At the same time, we aim to make interventions in physical space, and so allow art to grow within both virtual and physical arenas- and in the space inbetween. Input from physical space will include artwork by the group members and events conceived to work within the invisible show. Through the website and the events, we hope to sensitise the public to the concepts of virtual and physical art; and to provide a richer environment of ideas upon which the invisible show can feed. In turn, we hope this will encourage people to approach art with questions and with confidence, adding their ideas into the show.

In conclusion, the show will be a broad mix: images, artwork, discussion, publicity, events, and documentation about its own growth. This melting-pot approach aims at using the virtual space to better represent art. Instead of being a sterile, static exhibition, we hope to support a living, growing show; and so, to broaden our concepts of what art is, and how we experience it.

Agenda for next Tuesday's meeting

PPD Group Meeting, 26 Feb
Time: 1pm
Place: Drawing computer rooms
ANGENDA for meeting:
1) Listen to Ros’ tutorial info (which happened today!)

2) Bring Art to upload onto www.invisibleshow.org Website

3) Write/bring BIO’s to put on the Website

4) Ask Mary about written proposal (DUE: 7 March)

5) Business card design/layout

6) Other promo material / ideas for further printing

7) Real life ‘events’/exhibitions plan – Include Ellie’s documentation of Supermarket Jaunt and Fry-up Exhibition for Website

Any additions to this list? Things are really shaping up!

It would be fantastic if we all brought just one piece of artwork (even if it is the tiniest thing), or the very start of a piece of artwork on Tuesday.
It would also be fantastic if we brought a little bio , even if it is 2 lines. Others in the group can help us develop it if necessary.

Piers - anything to add?

Business Cards

I have done mini research and here is a pricing guide to get business cards printed: ( in matte)

QTY
250 £3.74
500 £6.79
1000 £9.51
1500 £21.24
2000 £28.24


Additional Options
Uploaded logo/photo/design (If you place an order with an upload, there is a one-time fee per uploaded image. After the initial fee, you can continue to use that particular image in other products of successive orders at no further cost. You may incur additional fees if your order contains multiple free products). £3.49
Blank Back Side FREE
Black & White Back Side £3.49
Colour Back Side £9.99
Matt Finish FREE
265g/m² Premium Matt Paper £7.99
Foil AccentStarting at £7.99
Document Proof (PDF) £1.99
Card Holder £4.99 FREE
Electronic Business Card £1.29

So basically, business cards don't cost very much! I have saved a minimal design using Ros' tea stains image with 'www.invisibleshow.org' vertically at the side. Will show y'all on Tuesday and we can decide what additonal text is needed.

Think it takes 3 days to arrive ! yipee !

Another Idea For Cards / Flyers etc.

Very much inspired by Ros' teacup ring. I think I might need a smaller pen though if we're going to use it!

Ros' invisible prints

1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively

Team Roles

Hi everyone,

I have finally got around to uploading the roles that we agreed the last time we met. Nothing to stop us all doing a bit of everything but it's good to have people designated as having the final say about things - design by commitee is generally not a good idea!

So, what I came out from the meeting with was:

Team Leader - Piers
Meeting Organiser - Tal
PR & liaison (canvassing for on and offline links & potential sponsorship) - Ellie & Mary
Design (templates, layout, graphics) - Tal, Ferdinand, Ros
Content (administering posts, researching related material, online curation) - Juhi & Ros
Writing Proposals & Releases - Mary
Events Organisation - Mary

Obviously everybody has collective responsibility for coming up with ideas and submission of material because without that we would have nothing to post! Feel free to comment if anybody wants to change roles or come up with new ones.

See y'all tomorrow

things needed urgent attention

1. CVs from all of us. We are invisible but our CVs need to be visible now...
2. Dates for the show
3. PR
4.ideas..

please lets work on this...

Ps.... elle great show..!!!

Roles and Responsibilities

Some ideas....

- Team Leader
- PR and promotion (to some extent this is everyone but we need someone to actually phone people up / email people and stuff)
- Web page design and upkeep
- Someone to look after the budget (if we end up having one)

Please add to the thread with anything else you can think of...

Shiny shiny shiny show

Hallo!
I had a couple of ideas for publicising our shinyshinyshinyshow (that's a pet name I have for it).
The first one is to hire a van and drive around London with the outside covered in advertising for it. The second is to don fancy dress and hand out flyers in Trafalgar square.
My thinking is along the lines of: a van would let us cover a lot of places, and if the advertising we made was really, really individual, if we put a good day's work into it, I think it could compell people into following it up. As for the latter proposal, well I'd definately take a flyer from a person dressed in a gorilla suit. Wouldn't you? I mean, marks for sheer effort and chutzpah. And I think that I'd look up the flyer as well.
The other good thing to mention is that: the van idea would be prepation + time spent driving, and the Trafalgar Square idea would be flyer preparation + time in square. Both should be fairly snappy, and time efficient. The other thing about Trafalgar Sq, is that people drift there from everywhere- Londoners and many, many tourists. I think tourists will be in a better mood to humour us and look up the site.
Ta Da!
By the way, I am willing to get dressed up in a gorilla suit or whatever.

The Plan

Fellow transparent people,

Finally some notes on the outcomes of our meeting last Tuesday:

Generally I think we decided that we're going to continue to use this blog as a cosy thing between us to document the development of the project and share ideas, and then work towards something a bit more professional that we will 'launch' as it were on a given date, using typepad rather than blogger so that we get a proper URL, more design features etc etc.

So, given that this is the plan the whole thing probably breaks down into four bits:

1. We decide on who does what, the overall concept and broadly speaking how we will promote the thing. (Done by our tutorial this Friday)

2. We work on the detailed design bits – the look of the website, planning to some extent what promotional activities, shows, interventions and events that we will be doing and when. This will all go into the ‘proposal document’ that we have to get done I should think (Done by end of term)

3. We build the blog, including all the links, content etc. that we would want to be on there when someone from the big wide world comes to look at it. (done by 1st half of next term)

4. We ‘launch’ the blog and execute the aforementioned plans for events and promotions. (Undertaken over 2nd half of next term so that we can somehow gauge how we think it went when we come to present the thing).

I also said I would start a thread on roles and responsibilities which I shall do now…

invading tescos...

im currently turning packaging such as cereal boxes inside out and putting them back together,
(quite enjoying this action!)

aswell as hijacking an isle of local supermarket for an "exhibition of boxes and drawings
ive decided im going to start putting these blank boxes in tescos all over london( down with tescos!)
so the only thing i'll write on it in small letters somewhere is "the invisible show"
i'll have to be really militant with it though-if im going to do it i'll have to do it properly
and if i do it enough..who knows it could get some attention,
and so act as one of our tactics for promotion for our little collective!

Check It Out....

Somebody checked out our humble blog all the way from the US of A!

so true.. don't you think so?

Czech dream

Have you seen 'Czech Dream'? It's a documentary made by some film students commenting on the rise of commercialism in Czech. The film makers successfully promoted a non-existent Hypermart. (4000 people turned up to the opening of the 'Hypermart').

The film may primarily be satire about the dramatic political/social/economic change in Czech, but it made me re-think promotion. Promotion that isn't about many people turn up to a 'non-existent Hypermart'. But more subtly starting something which has a slow-burn effect rather than an immediate bombastic one. Something that may take time (and does not adhere to the PPD university due dates), is well considered, has a body of work to support it and ultimately has longevity and creative integrity. Like this blog?

proposal...(I would love to hand this in dont think it'd go down to well though!)

I propose that the piece is about nothing and everything and yet,

I propose not to attempt to explain in mere words an idea beyond words, a convergence

of the metaphysical and the physical that through simulacra is passed from

my mind to yours. I propose not to

compromise the work by translating the work into a coded system of characters. The

work does not fit that pattern. I propose that to propose would not be indicative but

merely suggestive. Now I don’t want to give you any ideas, I’m not that kind of girl. I

propose that to explain the work would oppress your very

own creative genius and would render you biased in your viewing of the work. I propose

not to divulge my innermost ideas and feelings. Instead I propose that the work will

explain itself to you upon your direct experience of the piece. I propose that in viewing

the piece your reading of it will be absolutely correct. I propose that in viewing the piece

you will find that I have done exactly what you expected of me by not doing exactly what

you expected. I don’t want to propose to you it’s too soon I’m not ready for that shit.

I propose not to propose.