Project -- Angran

Project Name:

Mapping the direction and view your city

Time

May, 1st - August 31st, 2016

We love to say New York City is the city of world, but when we live in the city it’s hard to see how globalisation this city is.

People look at their phone when they walk. They think they know which direction they’re heading to. New Yorker doesn’t pay attention to the city they lived in anymore, because they won’t be lost on the street. As a city that is hard to tell who the tourism or the locals are, our group focused to bring people in and get people involved in our project.

When we talk about map people see it as a world map, but there’s a group of people think map as local use. 

If we only map East village what are we going to map for people who lived there for more than 20 years?

Restaurant map (Food)

Toilet & Water map (Needs)

Bike, Bus & Subway map(Transition)

There’s a lot of stuff we don’t know.

Every one have a phone and there’s so many Apps we could search all these results, but for tourism or people doesn’t live in that specific neighborhood it’s going to take a lot of time to search from Apps.

This is why I’m Curating my project with:

Green Map® System 

http://www.greenmap.org/greenhouse/en/media

Green Map® System promotes inclusive participation in sustainable community development worldwide, using mapmaking as their medium.

Green Map® System support locally-led Green Map projects as they create perspective-changing community ‘portraits’ which act as comprehensive inventories for decision-making and as practical guides for residents and tourists. 

Over 500 unique, vibrant Green Maps have published to date, and another 325 are interactive Open Green Maps. Hundreds more have been created in classrooms and workshops by youth and adults. Both the mapmaking process and the resulting Green Maps have tangible effects that:

Strengthen local-global sustainability networks

Expand the demand for healthier, greener choices

Help successful initiatives spread to even more communities

Green Map System has been developed collaboratively since 1995, and the movement has spread to over 845 cities, towns and villages in 65 countries. 

It will be nice if we could see all different types of map from countries in New York. People could ask questions about their countries. Tourism could feel comfortable to talk and communicate with each other and local people could also talk to each other about new things they’ve seen in the city. 

The project must located in a place that have many people interrupt. Which is why I have considered locations in the middle a triangle geometry such as : 

Flatiron District

Between West 24th street & Madison Square Park.

http://www.flatirondistrict.nyc/about-the-bid/about-us

The BID is a nonprofit organization formed by property owners, businesses, residents and others with a stake in the Flatiron District. It is one of 70 BIDs throughout New York City and its focus is on community improvements and economic development. An irregularly shaped area, shown below, of some 38 square blocks, it runs from 21st to 28th Streets and from parts of Sixth Avenue over to, but not including, Third Avenue, serving 21 million square feet of commercial space and more than 4,500 businesses.

Between Broadway and 4th Ave near Union Square

Will see Metronome—— TIME CHANGE


 http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/24595

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The clock

On the left side of the work is a set of fifteen large LED digits, called "The Passage", which display the time in 24-hour format. The seven leftmost digits show the time in conventional 24-hour format, as hours (2 digits), minutes (2 digits), seconds (2 digits), tenths of a second (1 digit). The seven rightmost digits display the amount of time remaining in a 24-hour day, as tenths of a second (1 digit), seconds (2 digits), minutes (2 digits), hours (2 digits). The center digit represents hundredths of a second, and appears as a blur.

Metronome (detail – "The Passage")

Metronome (detail – "The Relic")

The clock showed the wrong figures for over a year in 2010/2011 until, in June 2011, the dial-up connection it had previously used to obtain an atomic time reading was updated.^[2]For instance, if the clock reads "195641189180304", it means that time is 19:56 (7:56 PM) and 41.1 seconds, and that there are 04 hours, 03 minutes, and 18.9 seconds remaining in the day. For a few months in 2005, the clock on Metronome did not give the time of day, but instead counted down the time until the International Olympic Committee was to announce the host city of the 2012 Summer Olympics.^[1] New York City ultimately lost its bid to be host city to the 2012 Olympics to London.

City of New York, Department of Parks and Recreation

Astor Place

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Tony Rosenthal 
"Alamo", 1967
Painted CorTen Steel 
15 x 15 x 15 feet 
Collection: City of New York, Department of Parks and Recreation
Astor Place Traffic Island
Lafayette Street at 8th Street
© Tony Rosenthal/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

http://tonyrosenthal.com/Alamo.htm

City of New York, Department of Parks and Recreation

Herald Square
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/nyregion/17herald.html?_r=3&

James Gordon Bennett Memorial 

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• Location: 6th Avenue and 34th Street
• Sculptor: Antonin Jean Carles, Paris
• Description: Niche, pilasters, 3 figural statues, bell
• Materials: Bronze, Milford pink granite
• Dimensions: Bell H: 74" D: 45"; Minerva H: 11'; Left Figure H: 7'4"; Right Figure H: 6'11"; Plinth H: 5" L:10'4"
• Dedicated: 1895; 1928; restored 1940
• Foundry: s101 - decauville, paris, 1894
• Fabricator: Restored by E. Gargani & Sons
• Donor: 6th Avenue Association

Herald Square doesn't have a lot pop arts in the place. It will be hard to introduce a new type of sculpture in the site.

http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/herald-square/monuments/1042

Time Square


http://inhabitat.com/2011-times-square-ball-shines-bright-with-32256-leds/

The iconic New Year’s Eve Bal set to drop this year in Times Square was designed by none other than Waterford Crystal and Philips Lighting. The ball, which makes its annual 1 minute journey on New Year’s Even, is illuminated with thousands of LED lights. Human power from the Duracell Smart Power Lab is being used to charge up the batteries that used to light up the 2-0-1-1 sign, which also used LED lighting technology. The geodesic dome consists of 2,688 crystal triangles, is 12 feet in diameter, weighs 11,875 pounds, and contains 32,256 Philips Luxeon Rebel LEDs.

http://inhabitat.com/big-brings-the-love-to-times-square-with-a-10-foot-tall-pulsing-led-heart-sculpture/

Designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group, the heart hovers within a cube made of 400 glass rods, and it pulses brighter and stronger as more visitors touch the activation pad. More people bring more love and more light, making the sculpture directly relate to the crowds surrounding it, so grab your sweetie, your friends, or even a few strangers, and help light up Times Square. 

Young Projects has made it a little bit easier to find love in the big city with their unique interactive sculpture in Times Square. Called “Match-Maker”, the intriguing heart-shaped public artpiece invites viewers to peer through strategically-placed periscopes to see their four most ideal astrological mates on the other side

Columbus Circle

JOANNA MALINOWSKA
BROADWAY MOREY BOOGIE
Columbus Circle, New York City
September 2014 - April 1 2015

New York - Broadway Morey Boogie is a contemporary outdoor sculpture exhibition spanning from Columbus Circle to 166th Street in Manhattan. Along the 5 mile stretch of Broadway artists including Dan Colen, Sara Braman, Lars-Erik Fisk, Drew Heitzler, Matt Johnson, Devin Troy Strother, Polish artist Joanna Malinowska will present a sculpture of a 15- foot tall American Bear titled, Chronicle of the Latter World, which will stand in the middle of Columbus Circle.

Malinowska’s artistic practice has always been guided by her interest in anthropology and ritualistic societies, worlds far removed from the western way of life. She juxtaposes imagery and ideas related to Native Americans and Native Alaskans with the contemporary modern world, not to emphasize the absurdity of one over the other, but to bring them both closer to mutual understanding. For the 2012 Whitney Biennial Malinowska hung a painting by the American Indian Movement activist and artist Leonard Peltier, considered by some to be unjustly imprisoned, alongside her own work. This gesture questioned the lack of representation of Native American artists in the biennale, and ultimately in the art world. A work also included in the biennial, This Project is Not Going to Stop the War/Journey to the Beginning of Time, is a video shown on an old fashioned television set in which the artist prepares a South American indigenous ritual elixir called the chicha de yucca. Here she draws a connection between the modernity of the TV set and an the ancient folk ritual.

All of these locations will have temporary art sculptures  during the year. In the past Union square and Columbus Circle doesn't have a lot sculpture made by plastic glass which will be hard to contact and curating a project. The other places especially Time Square had a lot of projects have the similar idea that I have for projects like this one I'm producing.

The building structure that fit for my project need to be big like a house and all the materials needs to be transparent more like a plastic glass.

This material is expensive and even more expensive for recycled. If I’m curating with Green Map System they’re using recycled paper for their maps which means I need another company could help me find all the materials.

The Broadway Green Alliance is an industry-wide initiative that educates, motivates, and inspires the entire theatre community and its patrons to adopt environmentally friendlier practices.

The Broadway Green Alliance was founded in 2008 in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council. The Broadway Green Alliance (BGA) is an ad hoc committee of  The Broadway League and a fiscal program ofBroadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids.  Along with Julie’s Bicycle in the UK, the BGA is a founding member of the International Green Theatre Alliance. The BGA has reached tens of thousands of fans through Facebook, Twitter,YouTube and other media.

Production Committee: 

The Production Committee works to green the practices of running shows, from rehearsal through closing. This committee has helped change a host of backstage practices, including the now widespread use of rechargeable batteries, re-usable water bottles, and reduced paper usage. This committee also conducts periodic e-waste and textile drives for the Broadway community and operates collections of dozens of products from corks to pens to chip bags for recycling and reuse. Important initiatives from the Production Committee include our Green Captains program and the Binder Project.

In this group there’s so many designers and interns would love to help recycle materials from finished shows and theatre. If I could use all these materials to build my structure of my project then it’s going to save a lot of money. 

If I need to en-light the structure at night I will need help with lighting programs.

http://www.mainstage.com/default.asp?id=42

Lighting, Dimming and Control

Since 1981, Mainstage has offered the latest in entertainment technology - in 1982, we were one of the first to bring digital dimming technology to the Wisconsin market. Since then, we have provided over $30 million in installation of lighting and dimming systems across the nation.  Theseprojects range from very small venues to new construction and renovations to complicated interfaces of control consoles.

Mainstage's experience in integrating these lighting systems with custom curtain and rigging systems allows us to provide our customers with a complete theatre system.  Most entertainment dealers will only offer one brand of equipment.  Mainstage is proud to be an authorized dealer for most major lighting brands.  Our goal is to specifically meet your performance, installation and budgetary needs. We package the very best for the highest quality and most flexible systems available.

Entertainment lighting takes many forms ranging from traditional fixed yoke Fresnels and Ellipsoidals to moving light mirror or yoke units.  There are a host of fixtures designed for specific uses: front, back, wash and cyc lighting, along with special effects. 

Dimming is a unit or units that manipulate the voltage to a lamp, made up of SCR or IGBT components to control the high voltage output (from 0 to 100%) to the theatrical fixtures.  These devices are electronically controlled by a firing card to either forward or reverse phase.  The firing cards are controlled by remote preset or computer consoles.  They are available in small and large dimmer packs, strips, or rack mounted modular units.

Control consoles are the remote devices that control the dimmers. These days, almost all consoles are some sort of computer and are available as foot switched, single and two scene presets, custom memory and PC based memory systems.

I’m trying to let local people know there are new things happening in the city near their neighbors. And the same time is to make tourism feels they could also feel the New York City is not that far as they imagine. It could make some connection between them and they city they come from. It’s hard to say how many citizens are in the city. 

Green Map® System could get different versions of maps from their country and stick on the plastic glass and communicate with others with map and views when they stand inside of this structure.