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Hello everyone, I haven't read every single message on this topic yet, but has anyone brought up the Clock of the Long Now (the 10,000 clock built into the side of a mountain in Nevada)? Talk about a technology-based public art project with long-term ambition. See: http://www.longnow.org/projects/clock/ Richard Rinehart --------------- Director of Digital Media Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive bampfa.berkeley.edu --------------- University of California, Berkeley --------------- 2625 Durant Ave. Berkeley, CA, 94720-2250 ph.510.642.5240 fx.510.642.5269 >There is 1 message totalling 46 lines in this issue. > >Topics of the day: > > 1. Permanence and public art - recap and then... > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:31:08 -0400 >From: Murphy <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Permanence and public art - recap and then... > >On Jul 21, 2006, at 2:59 PM, Sarah Cook wrote: > >> = as for the nature of public art itself - its history and our >> assumptions about how it works - is it the case that there are few new >> media driven projects commissioned in proportion to the more static >> works we tend to associate with the field, or does it just seem that >> way? and if it is true, then why? > > >Generally, US public art funders aren't very interested in the >technology of a visual art work as technology but some are willing to >work with artists to make the work happen. Both Creative Time and The >Public Art Fund have worked with various levels of new media though I >don't think any of the artists they work with would categorize >themselves as new media artists. Peter Eleey, curator and producer for >Creative Time gave a talk in 2005 at a conference in Copenhagen called >The Expanded Notion of Public Art where he explains what he looks for >in the art work they produce and talks a little bit about some of the >works: http://public-art.dk/participants/eleey.html > >There's also other talks available on the site from other participants, >including Jakob Boeskov, an artist we've worked with here at THE THING. > >I'm in the process of writing grant proposals for a big year-long >project TT is going to be involved with spearheaded by bootlab.org in >Berlin and including De Waag in Amsterdam and Sarai in dehli about >issues around intellectual property and globalization. It will include >debates held in the different cities in the spring followed by a big >congress in Berlin in the fall. In between there are several public art >projects planned including a physical and online "public archive" in >parks in NYC and Berlin. It's an example of the kind of environment >for new media I wrote about in an earlier post. Whether we can convince >anyone to give us money remains to be seen ... > >Robbin Murphy >http://post.thing.net > >------------------------------ > >End of NEW-MEDIA-CURATING Digest - 24 Jul 2006 to 25 Jul 2006 (#2006-143) >************************************************************************* --