13Nov/091
Shawnee Main Street Expedition
The following images are an early iteration of exhibition of my time travelling body of work.
The video seen on the screen and / or in the head mounted display unit is the following:
Shawnee Main Street Expedition from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.
The following video is objective documentation of the Shawnee Main Street Expedition:
Shawnee Main street Expedition Documentation from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.
November 17th, 2009 - 11:11
Fictive Narrative
Temporality
Inability to grasp time
What is the disaster?
Maybe better as a mystery.
Historical Society Aesthetics
Giant silhouettes on the wall
*Dread of Decay
Museum of Jurassic Technology
Institute for applied autonomy
Museum Signage
Coal Ghost town
What Voiles do I have?
Architecture = Culture identifyer
Goggles as Transporter
* Orb – The box (music video)
Glasses give sense of control
Glasses = experience
TV = image
Glasses too gadgety?
Glasses = Private
Passive vs. Active viewer
passive vs. pricate
**Vito Acconci, Sophie Calle, Joseph Bouys (sp)
Facad
Portrait / Distinction
Line of Sight up or down – contrast
Document &, vs. Experience
Why does the time traveler (explorer) draw
Energy & Economy
Why avoid the subject of oil and coal in the content?
foreshadowing
shawnee foreshadows us all
*Strangers come to town
* Art works that employ Fiction
* is there a shawnee sister city
silhouettes as code / symbol
How to develop a narrative
Tech as measuring device.