Class notes for people who presented today

Since I always take notes and never post them, I thought it would be helpful to share them.

Notes: Class 10.09.07

Dionysios –

• experiential – falling, rising
• rotated – leaving, coming into something
• what you do with the geometry, do it synchronically
• speed up the film to create the rotation
• bricks, glass, materiality
• light source during the day, or a source of light at night
• play with opposition between bounded and unbounded

Liz –

• “The mind is a maze.” – metaphor
• Borges reading – forking path
• frames
• less about the maze
• transgression of the edge
• about time
• exploit the accidentals
• ex. umbrella in the corner of the frame
• Dan: Poetic Logic
• play with the associations of words
• what role can color play in the installations?

Derek –

• Terrani (??)
• if it passes in movement, it’s present tense
• Gaston Bachelard
• memory
• how do we remember ourselves?
• threshold
• Marc: Book that deals with the ways in which different cultures deal with time via ideas of ritual, etc.
• time as an object
• duration as an object
• what is the significance of the book?
• focused on the binding
• library as a collection of past memory
• symbolic, maybe not spatial
• overlay of reading the book is ok…but the actual book is not yet relevant

Mike –

• sound of someone stepping in a puddle, regularity of the steps in contrast to the rhythm of the water
• someone walking through the site as relationship to interventions
• need to abstract from the fountain
• piaget reading
• maybe the footage is rotated 180 degrees so that the ground not becomes the top of the frame, and the water is suspended in the frame
• what is the new relationship to gravity? What is someone’s experience via the point, line and plane of this new space?
• use water architectonically
• Florida University
• realizing Wright’s dome of water
• what is the essence of the thing, the effect

Leslie –

• 3 frames in intervention can have changing images
• be aware of their angle of incident as it relates to the tilt of the frame
• light from the windows at night is objectified
• do the intervention drawings privilege one viewpoint?
• “Window is a flame” – metaphor
• what is the quality of the window as a flame?
• window has to become a flame
• explore the potential linguistics of this metaphor