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Karen's
reply to Beth / About her upcoming
event
From: "Karen Wilkinson
To: pieplanning@media.mit.edu
Subject: Re: art car event/workshops
I love the idea of combining crickets and art cars! David Best assembled
an art car on the floor with visitors here in '92. Melissa Alexander
headed up the effort then and has shared all sorts of information with
us about the event that I thought might useful (for Beth as well as
PIE/Mindfest/workshops in general).
Here are a few notes:
* Assembly happened
over a four day time period.
* We received a huge amount of press for this event
* The public really got into it - many brought personal items to add
* David required people to dedicate at least five minutes to working
on the car, to gluing on objects whether it was their own object or
something they found at the museum.
* After it was all over, Melissa put together a recipe for hosting an
art car assemblage (see attachment)
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Excerpt from a full color glossy spread in the Examiner with an image
of one of David's cars:
"As part of
the museum's 'Finding Your Way' festival of human navigation. You're
invited to bring your own junk (broken pottery old toys, etc.) and glue
a little personal history onto the limousine landscape. Or grab something
from the junk on hand"
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In terms of crickets....... I think it would be great to have a couple
of workshops (or just big tables) where people could animate some of
the junk before adding it to the car. It would be especially nice if
the crickets could be integrated with all the other stuff to the point
that visitors/creators were able to concentrate on the types of interactions
people were having with the objects/car.....
What if .......
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you had to touch or blow on the car to make something happen?
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the car captured your image somehow?
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it responded differently as you approached it from 5 ft, 3ft, 2ft etc?
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it sensed you looking closely at something and let you discover
something that was normally hidden?
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it collected reactions and played them back over time?
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it dispensed things (fortune cookies, sticks of gum, lemonade)?
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it displayed certain characteristics at set times
(element of suspense/surprise)?
Can't wait to help with this!
-karen
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