Student projects of the class Space is the Place:
Hamish John Appleby: DREAMS IN INNER SPACE AND THE FRONTIER OF THE VOID
DREAMS IN SPACE, BLINDFOLDED AND BOUNDLESS - A workshop by: Hamish John Appleby
THE PROCESS '“The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps” Carl Sagan, 1994.'
WHERE AND WHAT I am currently running a creative workshop with the students from the Waldorf Schüle in Weimar – So far this has been a fantastic opportunity for both myself and the students(I hope) to engage in a workshop or kind of ‘mini project’ that they have probably never encountered before, with the outcome being a possible mini exhibition of drawings – or other creations.
A GREAT QUOTE “I shut my eyes in order to see”. --Paul Gauguin
LOCATION Waldorfschule Weimar
AFTER LONG ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES…and so finally, after much delay and organisation, I was finally given permission to begin the 'space' workshops, but not at the International School as was planned, but instead the Waldorf Schüle also here in Weimar.
COMPROMISES A couple of compromises had to be made, one of them being that I was only given permission to work with older students, however the experience has been so far really good and the impressions and comments I have been given are that the workshops have been really inspirational and 'eye opening'
THAT STRUCTURE WORD The structure of the workshops have also had to have been condensed as class time is both precious and it has been quite a challenge to even organise the time that I have been given due to the all the other time constrains of both overseeing teachers, class times and students etc... Therefore, I will continue to update the progress as it happens...
IN TO IT The first assignment we have worked on in this series of workshops is exploring the idea of inner space and more succinctly the idea of boundlessness. Through meditation and then silent drawing with blindfolds, the participants have been able to explore a new type of space and one that has previously been undiscovered. The results of the drawing thus far have been both remarkable and even outstanding - as the participants spend 28 minutes of their life in this brave new world of inner space…
FOLLOW UP The follow-up group discussions have also been interesting, with students talking about how they felt and how their approach to this type of visual communication was altered. We have also looked at the artist - Yves Klein's idea of the void and how that relates to this process on the idea of infinite space…
YVES KLEIN SAID... As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.
MORE TO COME Workshop classes will continue over the next couple of weeks with more ideas - one of which will be the execution of a communal blindfold Action Painting/Drawing…
FINE PRINT For reasons of privacy, I have only been able to upload images that focus on the work, avoiding showing people's faces, but I am hoping to get permission to include more images soon…
CHECK OUT THE FIRST IMAGES!
WORKSHOPS CONTINUED...
Starting off with power meditation, the group harmonised their collective energy and entered the deep space. The students were asked to explore what lay beyond the frontier of 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 light-years away...
The findings were remarkable. The group talked about how moving and travelling together in this new way, provided a shared unison of consciousness that they had not expected to be so strong.
Feedback Board from Workshop 3...
WORKSHOP 4
The next workshop involved drawing from the experience of collective inner/outer space exploration and create living forms based on what the students felt most accurately reflected how they imagined what lives beyond the vast depths of space. Other questions were also posed and explored, how the creatures moved, what noises they made, what was the gender. The masks were made from round objects and rubbish - the combination provided both highly artistic creations and interesting ways of exploring creature replication possibilities. Avocado skins were turned into eyes, potato sack mesh transformed into reptile skin, foil and shoe horns, even the German national flag was re-interpreted. There was something very Lars Von Trier about the whole mood and students took me to a place near the school that acted as an alien landscape, enabling them to run and move about in their new found territory of 'the beyond'.
Andreas Beyer: The Radiostar
Since more than 100 years humankind uses technology for broardcasting content and for some physics reasons nearly 80% of that signals are just "lost" in space. That means the nearby outer space ( 100 ly orbit) is in a way a kind of radioarchive or a cultural documentation of hunmankinds ability to send signals with several technologies. I'm focused on the frequency band of ultra short wave radio signals. To explain this cosmic-international radioarchive, I want to create a navigationplan to "travel" through that archive. the installation will be a (selfmade) telescopebody (no tech inside) that can be moved in different directions to zoom into a model of that "radiohalo". The room, where the telescope will be placed, is prepaired with some small radiotransmitters (selfmade) to symbolize where some particularly broadcasts are “waving” in outer space. Inside that telescopebody will be some, i think maybe three, radioreceivers to get in contact with the transmitters and by moving that telescopebody the recipient can adjust the programm that sounds in the body of the telescope. (sorry for my bad english)
Kyd Campbell: Dreams: in the direction of the frontier
Articles Tagged with “Space is the Place” in Kyd's Blog
keywords: space, frontier, dreams, dispersion, forward, ahead, distance, pathway, vibration, waves, western, cowboy, horse, self, psychedelia, utopia, horizon, beyond
Moving forwards towards towards a frontier.
The goal of this project is to produce a machine for self video recording and capturing alternate states of movement.
The image will include a subject moving into the distance. In the image, a large rope, visibly attached to the camera point will lead towards the subject, as it is pulling the camera, filming itself.
I constructed a specialized camera mount for holding and stabilising the camera on a rope. The subject is instructed to pull on the rope. Currently, the rope is tied to a fixed point.
Inspirartion song: Grace Slick's 1980 solo song Dreams.
In the process of working on this project, I have physically explored the notion of frontier, nature exploration and thought about what it means to move into the distance.
I read about "dispersion relation" (a theory taking into account that which effects the path of a moving subject or object through space and time). I decided in these experiments that the subject should be attached to a heavy weight (fixed object) and try to pull against it.
Topics/Readings:
Cult about north american indians in (East-)Germany
dispersion
frontier
other awesome links
Work documentation and process: video test 1: [1] video test 2: [ ]
documentation building the camera mount:
I'm in a phase of changing my life speed. Coming into a wokring context that ressembles passed ones. I want to step outside of pragmatics, daily news and politics and return to a working pattern rooted in intuition. I started this semester off with concrete ideas, but realised many of them were "one-liners" or time-rooted, connected to this particular moment in time and even more specifically to the current moment in media art production. I hold a romantic belief that my role as an artist is to work in another way that the world around me functions, to look for what can be seen between the cracks and can be found through "other" ways of looking. For example, if capitalism draws most of us to produce objects and move in a strong claimingly forward direction, then I should slow down and look beside me instead of ahead, watching for the tiny details and patterns that exist or searching for other types of motion.
Fan Yu: Reisen duch Zeit und Raum
Sind Zeitreisen und Raumreisen möglich? oder nur ein Menschheitstraum .... Ich hoffe, dass Sie mit meine Arbeit irgendwohin gehen können.
"Ich schlafe in Praha , arbeite in Berlin, esse in Beijing, spiele in Paris.... Welt ist nicht so groß. Ich kann irgendwohin gehe, ob es auf dem Mond ist.” Es ist ein Traum von mir... Aber es kann sein...''
Haben Dinosaurier Haar? Warum ist die Maya-Kultur verschwunden? Wer tötete John F. Kennedy? Was ist der öffentlichen verkehr? Möchten Sie die Lösung finden? Fakten sind direkt vor Ihren Augen...” So vielen Fragen stehen in meinem Kopf… vielecht stehen die Lösung schon langer Zeit im Internet. Nach ein Sekunde Lang sind die Fakten direkt vor Augen... “
Information
Mit vieler Motivationen reisen viele Menschen in ihrer Freizeit. Wir lange soll eine Reise dauern? Wie viel soll für eine Reise bezahlen? DIe beide Fragen stehen immer vor einem Urlaub… Ich glaub, wann man die 2 Fragen besser Lösungen kann, kann man irgendwohin fahren.
- A collection of artists working with mirrors
- The Shape of Time
- A 5D Space-Time Animated Anaglyph
- Zeitreisen
- »The Time Machine«
- Trailer - Schwarze Löcher - Tunnel durch Raum & Zeit
- Serge Salat
- "Spiegelraum" 1968 “I will build a new room, a room without a beginning and an end in which everything shall live and is summoned to live; which is at the same time quiet and noisy, unmoving unmoving and moving. It is to be high, as high as I want it to be; and low, f i want it low. It can be built as small as the smallest space or as large as a city, a state, or even a thought. The room, which is cheerful, vital, filled with color and movement is, at the same time tranquil and invites reflection without being demanding. It stands colorless and cold, in order to change as swiftly as a thought when I want it ... because it is both real and surreal, constructive and informal and colorful and intellectual and synchronous. It will require no art, because it is art, and the inhabitants of this room will become the greatest artists of our time. Everyone can become an inhabitant of this room. Try to find a room without a beginning and an end, and without limits. If you hold a mirror to a mirror you have a room without an end and limits, a room with unlimited possibilities, a new metaphysical space.”(Christian Megert, Galerie Köpke, Copenhagen 1961)
- Spiegelraum in der Ausstellung Pommritz
- Lichtraum @ Op Art Exhibit
- Diskussion : Zeitreisen
- dafür "Zeitreisen – ein Menschheitstraum". . . . . . . - dagegen "Leschs Universum - Sind Zeitreisen möglich? "
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Im Gegensatz zum 3D-Raum unserer Vorstellungswelt (Länge-Breite-Höhe, oder x-y-z) bedeutet 4-D, dass ein orthogonales Objekt je 4 Zahlenangaben für seine "Position" und seine "Ausdehnung" benötigt (üblicherweise werden hier die kartesischen Koordinaten x, y, z und w verwendet) sowie vier Winkel, die seine Ausrichtung im Raum bestimmen.
Wenn man über denn 4D Begriff erinnern kann, versteht man schon darüber, dass wir in einer Raum-Zeit-vier-dimensionalen (3 räumliche Achse und einer Zeitleiste) leben. Nach dem Konzept Einstein als die vier bekannten dreidimensionalen Raum besteht unser Universum aus Zeit und Raum, und dies ist ein virtuelles Timeline Werteachse.
Idea: schwarzes Kästchen
Um mein Idee besser darzustellen, stelle ich meine Arbeit mit die zwei aus ' Raum ' und ' Zeit ' kommenden Grundstoff her, die 'Spiegel' und 'Internet' sind. Für mich ist Spiegel eine magische Sache. Nach Reflexionsprinzip kann man einen 3D-Raum bauen, ist ohne Anfang und Ende.
'Das Internet ist ein weltweites Netzwerk bestehend aus vielen Rechnernetzwerken, durch das Daten ausgetauscht werden.' ( von wikipedia). Das internet spielt heutzutage eine sehr große und wichtige rolle. Man kann durchs internet alles mögliche machen, freunde kennenlernen..informationen über alles finden...nachrrichten... Alles können Sie hier kriegen. Es gibt sonst nichts auf dieser Welt. Internetbesucher kann nicht nur die Information über Vergangenheit und Gegenwart finden, sondern auch über den Ausblick in der Zukunft... Zeit, die ein wichtiger Bestandteil der vier-dimensionalen Raum ist, wird durch Internet gut gezeigt.
Mit Webkamera können alle Besucher eine Szene durch Internet auswählen. Die Szene wird gleichzeitig im Spiegelraum gezeigt werden . Darnach wird der Besucher in dem selbe gewählten Zeittunnel oder Raumtunnel stehen...
"Du kommst in einen Raum, schließt die Tür. Der Boden ist ein Spiegel, die Wände sind Spiegel und die Decke ist auch ein riesiger Spiegel. Zeittunnel wird dadurch aufbauen. Mit Spiegelbild wird deine Hoffnung durch Spiegle zeigen... "
See also: Multitouch
Endepräsentation
Jamie Ferguson: Vanessa_Cardui in Space
Launch date November 16.09
STS-129 mission to ISS aboard space shuttle Atlantis
Vanessa Cardui animal astronauts in space
A project by NASA & NSBRI [national space biomedical research institute]
Research Applications:
Small organism study
General Features:
Passive gas exchange with cabin air (o2, co2, rH)
Habitats packaged to provide temperature, rH and experiment-specific sensors for environmental monitoring
Thermally controlled time course experiments
Imaging capabilities with near real-time downlink
Manual or automated config. control for activation and termination
Fluorescent, LED, electroluminescent and infared lighting available
Multiple levels of containment meet NASA safety reqs.
Vanessa_Cardui in Space
Vanessa Cardui Weimar
see images on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62286352@N00/sets/72157623201878802/
cool space link in the press
- http://news.discovery.com/space/what-drugs-are-our-astronauts-on.html
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091210153538.htm
André Wünscher, Anica Huck, Hannes Wagner, Michael Schlund, Michaela Honauer, Thomas Fritzsche
The Idea
VOYAGEO consists of projections of satellite pictures onto the human body. These pictures are not about act photography, but about the recognition of earth and the human body. Mankind has a high selfconfidence about itself and its reign on earth but still is not really selfaware. We are trying to produce thus selfconsciousness by showing not the beauty showed in today's media. We want to have a look on the everyday reality of body and earth.
Some Background Information
Our idea bases upon two topics: The Innovation of Satellite Images & the Construction of the Human Body in the Media.
Our main focus is on the fascination of satellite images. Here you can find an introduction to remote sensing: [2]
And here are some interesting links to develop:
- Wikipedia: Space exploration english, deutsch
- Wikipedia: Cartography english, deutsch
- Wikipedia: Orbital photography english, deutsch
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In concern to the photography of Human Bodies we especially dicussed the Individuality of everybody's external appearance. This is related to the individual appearance of the earth on satellite images.
People seem to be physically perfect in the modern media. But we know that is mostly manipulated:
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So the question was & still is: What is physical individuality?
Wikipedia: english, deutsch
The Concept in the Process
We created the Website voyageo.de that acts as “Advent Calendar”, so that every day from the 1st of December until the 24th of December visitors could discover one picture there.
We made two photo-sessions with the projection of satellite images on human bodies & shot a lot of beautiful photos. After having selected 24 different themes, we completed the photos with written texts about geographical, historical, political or even individual information & published one a day. It was our aim to take the visitors on a 24-day-long journey.
The marketing for our website went into different directions:
- We included Google-Analytics. So we had a detailled overview over the daily reception of voyageo.de.
- We used our private (Email-) Network in order to spread the information about the online "Advent Calendar".
- We posted voyageo.de in different topic-related forums of photography or geographics.
- The “Advent Calendar” itself is a publishing format used to catch for recurrent attention. We thought the interest in our topic will be higher if people are curious to discover something everyday.
The Results
Our project was successfully running in December 2009 on www.voyageo.de!
According to Google-Analytics nearly 1.300 different people (absolute IP-adresses are meant, repeated visits are not counted) visited our website during the 1st to 24th of December 2009. We had in this time 8.802 pageviwes at all. The average of site-viewing laid at over 7 minutes. That's really long for the typically fast consumer behavior in the Internet. Most of the reactions we personal received from the recipients were truely positive. We had visits from Austria, Switzelrand, the Netherlands, the USA, the UK, France, Sweden, Argentina, Russia & from other countries. Inferential, our posting actions seemed to be successfull. Most of the visits were directly. So the use of our private networks & the direct marketing strategies had most influence on visiting this website.
Afterwards
The VOYAGEO project in its original sense is already finished.
Now we “cleaned up” the site. Descriptions associated to “Advent Calendar” are no more visble. The website functionings as a gallery since January 2010. All photo-text-combinations are still available for direct visitors, search engines & referring sites. Furthermore, people who visit the site still have the chance to contact us for feedback or further information.
Henrike Schneider: Infinity ∞
Where is it all ending?
The mainidea of the project is to find an installation, which creates the feeling of infinity.
artists
You should check this Exhibition out: James Turrell: The Wolfsburg Project --max 22:03, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
Martin Ketelhut and Sylvia Rohr: Alieno
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The plan is to produce artificial space pictures, photographs and an animated space to explore by using different materials and methods. 360°, telescope and long exposure time photos could melt with photos of surfaces, mist (artificial nebula) a.s.o
The best way to present our work is probably an exhibition. A series of 9 photo prints (ca.30x45), a screen to show the flash animation and documentation and also a table or box to show the photographed objects.
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Bianka Langnickel: Bookproject: “space is my place” – aren‘t we all aliens?
for me space is in general is a very undefined place. as i think it encourage everybody to use their whole imagination and creativity i will use this unknown area to create my own place, figures and spacy environments. i am going to make an illustrated book for children which consists of these imaginary protagonists and will lead them to an abstract way of creating their own playground. the book will give them the opportunity to reconstruct the creatures by themselfs and learn how to create their own „aliens“. when the child is interacting with the object playing a part in the story its more easy for them to get a connection between the actual sense of making up something in addition to the creative process. they can use the „aliens“ they build before to make up further stories and play them within their family. so in the end their will be a book which provides a inter-social way of reading, listening, building and a wide range of playing effects on little children as much as on adults. it is „talking“ to different senses and invites everybody to join who loves to see the world and especially the space more open minded and in a creatively way of thinking about „outhere“.
- Stage
- making experiments with the materials related to space and the figures to construct out of this material
- finding an ideal story
- Stage
- creating all of the figures
- build sets where the figures act in
- Stage
- testing photographie equipment and lighting, composition etc.
- final photographie work - taking pictures of the actual sets
- Stage
- postproduction _ retusche - like making the pictures more detailed, contrasted and fix some shadow areas etc.
- Stage
- illustrate the be-creative part
- Stage
- search for a publisher
calculated time for all parts: 1 year
Stefan Bernhardt and Christoph Schreiber
The Idea.
Imagine the universe's infinite emptiness, a place where absolute silence rules. We want to fill this space symbolical and to give the innumerably stars a special sound. In interaction between the user with the stars and the stars among themselves, there will be different sounds create. They will picture a musically portrait of the universe.
The Concept.
The user flies with a starship through the space. He is able to interact with the Star by activate them via shooting. An activated star makes noise and a shockwave arises. It evolves through the space and activates other stars and items on its way which also make sounds and send new shockwaves. An chain reaction starts and an uniquely world of noises is created. If a zodiac sign gets activated all linked stars will start making tones at the same time.
Constellations and Orbs.
Some stars are interlinked to signs. From time to time new signs will uprise and old ones will disappear. If one star in a sign is activated by a shockwave, the other stars in the sign will also activate. Now and again different orbs like comets or planets will appear. If a shockwave hits such an orb, a new sound, which is very different, will be created.
The editorially Arrangement.
The tone color and the volume of the created sound are swayed by the size of stars. A large start creates a deeply and loudly tone. Which sound you will hear is random.
Life and Death.
The shockwave which is send out by a star has a finitely lifetime. With growing size it becomes weaker. How large an shockwave can be is addicted to the size of a star.
The realization.
The interface for our project is build with Flash. All sounds will be integrated into the Flash-file, so the "instrument" is very portable and easy to handle. The application could be distributed via web because no special hard- or software is needed.
[3] thought interesting for you -jamie
Please make sure you do include in your conept what is known as Musica universalis, Pythagoras' theory about the harmonies of the planets. max 16:36, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Katarina Sengstaken, Timea Tofalvi, Yuxiang Wen, and Shuo Liu: A Faraway Cold Palace (广寒宫)
Jan Frederik Vogt: Our Stars
Idea
We took the stars from the sky . They are used by us. You can find them in logos, distinctions, decorations, jewellery, names, pictures and many other uses. I want to collect and exhibit them.
Exhibition
After a lot of thinking and talking to Max Neupert, Christine Hill and other people I finally came to this exhibition-idea.
The stars are hanging from the ceiling at the end of a very long corridor. So it is impossible to identify them with the naked eye. The visitors have to look through a telescope to explore my collection of stars.
Needs
- telescope
- collection of stars
- black molton
- long corridor about 20 m
- spotlight
- barrier tape
- invisible strings
Xiaomei Wang
Gedanken meiner Idee
- Vor ein paar Jahren hat man schon begonnen, die Spiele über das Thema des Weltraums zu designen. Z.B. das sehr bekannte Abendteuer-Spiel Samorost 1 von Jakub Dvorsky. Es zeigte uns eine interessante Geschichte, die der Weltraum als Hintergrund gestaltet wird. Vom gleichen Autor ist auch Samorost 2 und Machinarium.
- Rund 2008 haben Pyramide(USA-Firma) mit Spaceweb(China-Firma) ein 3D Spiel designt, in dem die Spieler das Shenzhou Raumschiff virtuell kontrollieren könnten. Beispielweise kann man durch mission editor, vehicle editor, control panel editor und AI den Raumschiff spielen, damit man es im Weltraum zu senden.
- Für unserer Kurs möchte ich ein kleines flash- das ganze Leben des Raumschiffs machen, über diese sehr begeisterte Richtung. Weil der Weltraum so viele Überaschung und Fantasie hätte, könnte man natürlich schöne Geschichte vorstellen und interessante Inhalte für mein Projekt finden.
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einige Interessante Links
- http://www.yoarcade.net/ability/cubefield_content.html Das ist ein sehr lustige Spiel. Man muss die Balance halten und die Gefühle wie die Schwerelosigkeit im Raumschiff.
- http://www.wechoosethemoon.org
Luo Yu: The Virtual Solar System (3D Online-Platform)
The Idea
We live in the solar system and it is our nearest galaxy. I would like to make a simulation for the solar system, the initial idea is to use flash platform with ActionScript programming, I want to design a virtual mini-universe and will make this space into a virtual online exhibition, people will be able to access this place through the network.
I will design a virtual space with the solar system's nine planets, nebulae and all kinds of meteorites analog out. The Visitors can make use of the mouse and keyboard keys such as "up", "down", "left" and "right" in the whole space random wandering. To make the simulation more realistic, I will collect the texture first. Of course I can design a variety of sound effects too, for example: when I click a planet, it will send an interesting sound. Although that is a simulation of the solar system, but I will give this space a particular style, and the website will receive a seemly interfaces-design.