| 02.08 - present |
foodshed: mapping san francisco's local edible landscape
A meal can be thought of as a map charting the territory between sites of cultivation and our dinner plates – even our digestive tracts. Each grain of wheat, each leaf of lettuce that touches our forks can be traced back to its source in the landscape. As we eat we injest the land from where our food was grown – a specific place in the ground under the arc of the sun. Foodshed, a project currently being developed by the Studio for Urban Projects, is a research project that uses the daily preparation of food as the point of departure to explore the hidden urban and rural ecologies that make up San Francisco’s local foodshed. A filmic essay, Foodshed will build a visual map from food and help us to perceive greater connections between what we eat and our local landscape.
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| 05.08 - present |
studio for urban projects storefront
www.studioforurbanprojects.org
The Studio for Urban Projects storefront is a space in the Mission district created by the memebers of the Studio for Urban Projects as a means of advancing civic engagement and furthering public dialogue. The storefront is best described as a a “collective of collectives.” Here like-minded San Francisco art collaboratives (including in collaboration with Amy Franceschini, Ted Purves + Susanne Cockrell, and Phil Ross) share a space for the staging of talks, film screenings, workshops, discussions, and meals. |
| 09.08 - present |
strange weather
www.strangeweatherproject.net
Strange Weather is an interactive visualization, created by the Studio for Urban Projects, that graphs the usage patterns of terms that characterize the dialog around climate change. Drawing from both historical sources and contemporary usage on the Internet, Strange Weather aims to provoke us to think about how weather must change in our everyday consciousness from an objective measure of natural phenomena to something that complexly/darkly also mirrors ourselves. Strange Weather was created in March 2008 for Eyebeam Art and Technology Center's “Feedback” exhibition and received Eyebeam’s Eco-Vis Challenge Award.
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| 10.07 - present |
an unnatural history of golden gate park
www.anunnaturalhistory.net
The nature of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is deceptive. The land that it occupies today was originally thought to be an undesirable drift of sand dunes on the outskirts of the city known as the “outside lands.” Today the picturesque scenery of Golden Gate park presents a convincing English style landscape and the park, a treasured recreational ground for the citizenry of San Francisco. An Unnatural History of Golden Gate Park is an audio tour that strolls through Golden Gate Park exploring the ways in which the park represents changing ideas of nature in the city. The piece considers the important role that this evolving landscape plays in the social and ecological life of San Francisco. Created by The Studio for Urban Projects in collaboration with Kurt Keppeler and Gabrielle Teschner. An Unnatural History of Golden Gate Park was presented as part of the Open Skies Festival and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Bay Area Now 2008 Ground Scores: Guided Tours of San Francisco Past and Personal Guest Curated by Valerie Imus. |
| 10.07 - 03.08 |
in popular terms
www.inpopularterms.net
In Popular Terms is an interactive visualization, created by The Studio for Urban Projects, that tracks the shifting language of ecology. Drawing from both historical sources and contemporary usage on the Internet, In Popular Terms maps the catch phrases, scientific terminologies, and bumper sticker slogans that surround the changing language that we use to describe our relationship to nature. Created by The Studio for Urban Projects in collaboration with Christian Nold, Gilbert Guerrero, Rick and Megan Prelinger, and Ram Subramanian. In Popular Terms was conceived for the Berkeley Art Museum’s on-line exhibition RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA curated by Richard Rinehart. |
01.04 - 08.07 |
proximity
proximity
video
Proximity is a video capture suit
designed to record a series of chance encounters collected on walking
drifts through the city. Re-appropriating surveillance technology to
the body, footage is captured via four small camera, fitted to the front
and back of the apparatus, that are triggered by a proximity sensor when
one’s
personal space is entered. The resulting video presents the residue of
these urban encounters. Proximity was exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as part of the group show Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible. Created in collaboration with Richard Johnson with technical help from Michael Swaine, Andrew Benson, Ram Subramanian, and Rachel Strickland.
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01.04 - 08.06 |
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06.03 - 10.06 |
dif(_)
www.alisant.net/dif
dif(_) video
renderings
of installation in Emeryville
dif(_) is a comparative algorithm developed to examine the use patterns of public
space. Deployed at a series of sites in San Francisco, dif(_) registers the
movement of people as they occupy space, retaining a trace of the individual
inhabitant. Together, these traces form a secondary architecture of the site,
exploring the dynamically sculpted relationship between public sites and their
occupation. Exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Beyond
Media Exhibition Intimacy in Florence, Italy. dif(_) was installed from
January-July 2006 on San Pablo Avenue in Emeryville as part of the public art
project “Art
Along the Avenue.” Created in collaboration with Anthony Burke and Ram Subramanian. |
01.04 |
section
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stills
www.section.ws
Section is a database video project, currently under development,
that examines the embedded syntax of our routes through the city
and challenges the mediated experiences of the urban environment
through methods of collecting, editing and compositing video. Section
overrides the fixed logic of the urban itinerary, allowing for
both the reinterpretation of existing urban spaces and the creation
of new ones through methods of montage. Created in collaboration with John Ristevski and Brooke Maury. |
08.02 - 12.03 |
transcode
Created in collaboration with Ann Chamberlain and Klover Kim
and currently under development, Transcode is a project developed
at the UCSF/Mount Zion Medical Center. Funded by the Creative
Work Fund, the project is being developed as a series of installations
that create conceptual links between the physically isolated
research and patient treatment centers. Drawing from a shared
fascination with patterns in both scientific research and the ‘feminine’ art
of interior decorating, the project explores this theme common
to both science and design through a series of installations
that link the methods of research with the forms and materials
common to interior decoration. In addition, these installations
draw from interviews with the staff, patients, and researchers
as well as scientific data collected through imaging and database
technologies. As part of the research process, the project
has brought together architects, designers, artists, and medical
researchers in a day long conference exploring multiple approaches
to transforming medical infrastructure. |
02.01 - 02.02 |
field conditions
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Created in collaboration with Rick Johnson, Field Conditions
was a project proposing architectural installations in
San Francisco’s under utilized urban sites.
The project mapped abandoned spaces in the South of Market area including
dead-end streets, the spaces in between buildings,
and natural arteries covered over by the forces of development.
These sites were then divided into four distinct
latitudes, each offering a unique opportunity for responding
to the urban landscape. Exhibited as three progressive
installations at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Field
Conditions proposed a series of temporary architectural
interventions reclaiming these lost spaces. |
12.01 |
lux
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Lux was a site specific video installation created for the
exhibition “Shadowbox” as
part of the Second Wednesday’s series at the Exploratorium, San Francisco.
The installation examined the theme of architectural transparency, illuminating
select sites within the museum that were frequently concealed from the public
eye. The installation cycled projected video of these sites within the windows
of staff offices and used this collected imagery to blur the architectural definitions
of public and private space. |
09.99 - 11.00 |
22X15
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+ web site documentation
22X15 was a project, created in collaboration with Rick Johnson, to examine the
phenomena of urban development shaping Charlotte, North Carolina. Focused on
the interaction between urban growth and atrophy that seemed to characterize
this fast-expanding southern city, we created web site as a tool for investigation.
Entitled 22X15, for the dimensions of the city, the site formed a log of our
impressions and research tracing the forces of development. Thematically, the
site included a broad examination of urban expansion from the conception of
the highway system and the vision of the skyscraper to the damaging effects
of the automobile and the abandonment of the inner city. Exhibited for eight
months in a public shopping mall, the site was housed in a structure inspired
by forms of mobile architecture. 22X15 was presented as an installation in
the exhibition Turning Point: South 2000 and initiated during a residency at
the McColl Center for Visual Art. |
05.98 - 06.98,
09.99 - 01.00 |
territory
www.alisant.net/territory
Created en-route, Territory was a travelogue charting a nine
month journey throughout Europe. Inspired by classic travel
narratives, the piece combined photographs and text to form
a collection of stories blending the experiences and exaggerations
of travel. Produced as a web site, Territory was exhibited
as part of Urban Renewal Laboratory, a group show at Southern Exposure
Gallery, San Francisco and as part of the McColl Center for
Visual Art Residents: The 1999/2000 Artists @ McColl Center
for Visual Art exhibition in Charlotte, North Carolina. |
09.99 |
siteview installation documentation
SITE was a site-specific video installation created, in collaboration
with Rick Johnson, for the grand opening of the McColl Center
for Visual Art in Charlotte, North Carolina. Projected within
the facade of the building, the piece combined live video of
the event with images of sites within the city that were both
under construction and recently abandoned. The installation
used the language of surveillance to describe the event within
the context of rapid urban development. SITE was produced during
a residency at the McColl Center for Visual Art. |
07.97 - 09.97,
04.98 - 06.98 |
single room occupancy
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S.R.O. was an installation exploring the modern invention of
privacy. Composed of a series of cubicle spaces, referring
to a vestigial form of the modern hotel room, the rooms blended
the relationship between every day objects and the preoccupations
of internal life. Created in collaboration with Susan Schwartzenberg
and exhibited at New Langton Arts, San Francisco and as part
of Interface: Art + Tech in the Bay Area, a group show at Duke
University, Durham. |
03.95 - 06.96 |
cento: a market street journal
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excerpts of the book
An alternative tour guide of Market Street combining contemporary
and archival materials, photographs and interviews to create
a narrative journey along Market Street. The book merged
the experience of the street with the multiple voices of
its past and present inhabitants. Cento was given away at
a series of public events that brought the book’s contributors
together with the general public on day long walking tours.
The project was created in collaboration with Susan Schwartzenberg
and Amy Snyder. Cento was supported by the San Francisco Art Commission. |