Hi, Sarah and all CRUMBs: in response . . .
In a message dated 5/15/2007 6:42:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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Dear CRUMB list
having just opened a show, and blogging the process on the web, i
just wanted to do a straw poll:
how many of you include video walk-throughs in your documentation of
gallery based exhibitions of new media art?
I spent $3,000 of my own money hiring a wonderful artist/videographer, Amy
Hicks, to document my last museum exhibition, Brides of Frankenstein (2005),
at the San Jose Museum of Art. SJMA had not budgeted for video documentation
but I thought it was important as most of the work moved, several pieces were
interactive, and there was a lot of sound pervading the space from
individual works. Plus the ambience (lighting, wall colors, flow etc.) of the
exhibition installation, designed by SJMA's Rich Karson, was a central aspect of
viewers' experience. Video was necessary to capture these essential components
of the show.
how many of you insist on having people in the photographs/slides taken of
the show?
I didn't insist, but I did ask Amy to show/record people interacting with
the interactive works, as they wouldn't have made sense otherwise.
do you document interaction in the exhibition? how?
see above. All three pieces by Camille Utterback required viewer
interaction: her sculptural objects Balance and Shaken, and her interactive video
installation Untitled 5 (2004) from her External Measures series. The same was
true for Heidi Kumao's responsive robotic works Protest (2004) and Resist
(2002), and for Tamara Stone's pieces: Are You Afraid of Dogs? (2001) and Ouch
(2000-01).
what other formats do you document your exhibitions in? (sound art
exhibitions are rarely recorded, or are they?)
The sound was recorded on the Brides video. I wish I had commissioned a
video with recorded sound for my 2000 sound sculpture exhibition, Aural Sex, at
the Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco. The museum documented Brides
with photographs in slide form. Some of the artists documented their own work
with photographs and video, and those images may appear on their websites.
do you use online photosharing sites such as flickr for exhibition
documentation? or do you hope that visiting artists / others might
put their photos online and you can link to them later?
I haven't yet, but this is an interesting option providing the host
institution and participating artists agree. I did distribute a copy of the DVD to
all 14 participating artists and to the museum to use as they wish. I don't
know if any of them have put it online. I'm ashamed to say I don't have a
website of my own to link to/from. Maybe one of these days before I'm 70 . . .
have you ever been 'told off' by an institution for putting
exhibition installation-in-progress photographs or gallery-
installation photos on the web/flickr - and if so was it about
infringing copyright on the artists work, or infringing the contract
with the artist and the gallery over documentation?
No, this hasn't happened -- the museum was fully informed about the video
and Amy coordinated it with museum staff. I also informed the artists and gave
them each a copy of the finished piece. As I use the DVD only for archival
purposes and to generate future projects no one has complained so far.
answers to the list rather than just to me will generate further
discussion!
thanks
sarah
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