This course will investigate the ways in which artists have presented narratives in the public realm and the organizations that have made the presentation of those works central to their curatorial practices over the last 40 years. Focusing on recent works presented in New York’s public spaces by Creative Time, The Public Art Fund, the Percent for Art Program, Arts for Transit and other non-profits organizations, this course will look at what it meant to tell stories and open discourses that challenged or interrogated widely-held value systems, the events and the politics of their time. In addition to the specifics of current and other key works and projects, we will discuss the conditions that governed the development of public performance, temporary and permanent installations, the ways in which those works were influenced by public approval processes and governmental agencies, media coverage and community response. Each student’s final project will be an on-line proposal for an exhibition that conveys a “narrative“ developed in the context of this course, referencing other relevant works .
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Team Grass In Motion Final Draft Presentation (Tiffany, Rick, Taylor, Sae In)
Here's the link to the Google slide:
https://goo.gl/0qrWk8
I think your project has a tremendous potential. I can envision each separate train line having its own outdoor elements that completely reinvents the atmosphere. I appreciate all of the sketches and research in cost and development that went into the project. I'm just wondering exactly how you intend to document or analyze the behavioral changes that occur? Would it be a series of infographics, an online survey or a filmed series of interviews with commuters? The research and development component of the affect your project has could become quite involved and become something brilliant. I would love to see something like this come to fruition.
• I really like this project. I think the curators have been successful because their goal is very clear and the way they are trying to accomplish is very interesting. I think nature makes people happier and maybe this is a good way of making people interact more in the subway or have a better attitude. • I think what might strengthen the project is to be open to different ways of transportation or different environments. Maybe buses or classrooms. How will that change?
I think this is a great project. I think that it was presented very clearly, and is well thought out. The biggest difficulty of this project is actually the entire foundation of the project itself: is grass really going to hold up after an entire week of thousands of New Yorkers, strollers, and anything else you might find on the subway trampling all over it? And to follow up, is it going to hold up in a way that does not actually work against what the curators are trying to achieve? I'm not entirely sure that a subway car filled with dead, trampled grass wouldn't be a worse experience for people riding the subway. So I think that the broad concept of bringing nature into the subway experience is awesome, but I think that there might be other ways of achieving this goal that might be better executed.
In talking about the broad concept of bring nature to the subway experience is a really great concept that could have a big impact on everyday New Yorkers. I think the group did a great job in recognizing this opportunity. As a New Yorker myself, the subway experience is often less than ideal: its crowded, claustrophobia inducing, and stale. A bit of nature might perhaps brighten this experience. I think that in this sense the project could be very engaging for its audience.
#1 The audience of this project will be people who access New York MTA in their daily life. If really grass become a floor pattern happens in MTA lines maybe it will be really interesting that making indoor like an outdoor spaces. When people getting tired from works then they could enjoy seeing grass during the time they heading back home. If they worked out the people who can help them to clean up all the trash and all the money needs to spend on this project it might become an most interesting project that will happening in the city. #4 I have see two different direction this project will go. No matter which subway line this grass will be, if they don’t solve the problem about cleaning then it is hard happen in New York. I believe they have done serious research MTA. MTA have people do clean up during the day at different time, but the problem is if grass come to the train then we need to put more energy into the place which also means more people, money and time. The other perspective will be if the group could find a lot of founder for this project and help people get more attention to this green system then the problem I just talked about will be gone.
I think your project has a tremendous potential. I can envision each separate train line having its own outdoor elements that completely reinvents the atmosphere. I appreciate all of the sketches and research in cost and development that went into the project. I'm just wondering exactly how you intend to document or analyze the behavioral changes that occur? Would it be a series of infographics, an online survey or a filmed series of interviews with commuters? The research and development component of the affect your project has could become quite involved and become something brilliant. I would love to see something like this come to fruition.
ReplyDelete• I really like this project. I think the curators have been successful because their goal is very clear and the way they are trying to accomplish is very interesting. I think nature makes people happier and maybe this is a good way of making people interact more in the subway or have a better attitude.
ReplyDelete• I think what might strengthen the project is to be open to different ways of transportation or different environments. Maybe buses or classrooms. How will that change?
I think this is a great project. I think that it was presented very clearly, and is well thought out. The biggest difficulty of this project is actually the entire foundation of the project itself: is grass really going to hold up after an entire week of thousands of New Yorkers, strollers, and anything else you might find on the subway trampling all over it? And to follow up, is it going to hold up in a way that does not actually work against what the curators are trying to achieve? I'm not entirely sure that a subway car filled with dead, trampled grass wouldn't be a worse experience for people riding the subway. So I think that the broad concept of bringing nature into the subway experience is awesome, but I think that there might be other ways of achieving this goal that might be better executed.
ReplyDeleteIn talking about the broad concept of bring nature to the subway experience is a really great concept that could have a big impact on everyday New Yorkers. I think the group did a great job in recognizing this opportunity. As a New Yorker myself, the subway experience is often less than ideal: its crowded, claustrophobia inducing, and stale. A bit of nature might perhaps brighten this experience. I think that in this sense the project could be very engaging for its audience.
#1
ReplyDeleteThe audience of this project will be people who access New York MTA in their daily life. If really grass become a floor pattern happens in MTA lines maybe it will be really interesting that making indoor like an outdoor spaces. When people getting tired from works then they could enjoy seeing grass during the time they heading back home. If they worked out the people who can help them to clean up all the trash and all the money needs to spend on this project it might become an most interesting project that will happening in the city.
#4
I have see two different direction this project will go. No matter which subway line this grass will be, if they don’t solve the problem about cleaning then it is hard happen in New York. I believe they have done serious research MTA. MTA have people do clean up during the day at different time, but the problem is if grass come to the train then we need to put more energy into the place which also means more people, money and time.
The other perspective will be if the group could find a lot of founder for this project and help people get more attention to this green system then the problem I just talked about will be gone.