A.1 The Mobile Site
Assignment:
You will develop a piece that addresses mobility and/or the mobile site. Mobile sites to consider are cars, trains, subway systems, bikes, pedestrians, scooters, boats, cabs, elevators/escalators, and also sites such as newspapers or various mobile technology. You can interpret this assignment through literal and/or conceptual lenses.
This piece is to be presented to the class on campus. Therefore, as a class, we will most likely view your piece through its documentation. This documentation can become a separate piece/object taking the mobile site as inspiration or it can be presented as straightforward documentation. Formats to be considered are sculpture, installation, photography, video, sound, light, collage, drawings/schematics, and maps. Also, consider the strongest form to translate your concepts to an audience that has not experienced your mobile site.
Questions and points of consideration:
· Think about your daily experience s moving through the city.
· Consider materials/objects that are present at your site(s) to construct your piece.
· How will an audience experience your work (potentially, you will have multiple audiences with this piece)? Also, consider how an audience in a gallery or museum (or for us, in our critique) might access this piece secondhand through documentation, etc.
· Collaboration is encouraged (with your audience or another member or other members in the class).
Artists and Projects of Interest:
Mary Mattingly, Andrea Zittel, The Situationists, Mark Thompson, William Pope L., Doug Aitken’s Station to Station, Janis Kounellis’s Ionion, Eleanor Antin’s 100 Boots, Allora and Calzadilla’s Returning a Sound, WWII’s Ghost Army, Will Barclift’s site specific treadmill action in SF’s Financial District.
THOUGHTS
Mobility- Mobile- Movement
Think about movement as a process
process of advanceing
noun: address; plural noun: addresses
the particulars of the place where someone lives or an organization is situated.
"they exchanged addresses and agreed to keep in touch"
a formal speech delivered to an audience.
"delivered an address to the National Council of Teachers"
synonyms:speech, lecture, talk, monologue, dissertation, discourse, oration,peroration; More
write the name and address of the intended recipient on (an envelope, letter, or package).
speak to (a person or an assembly), typically in a formal way.
"she addressed an audience of the most important Shawnee chiefs"
synonyms:talk to, give a talk to, speak to, make a speech to, give a lecture to,lecture, hold forth to; More
think about and begin to deal with (an issue or problem).
"a fundamental problem has still to be addressed"
synonyms:attend to, apply oneself to, tackle, see to, deal with, confront, come to grips with, get down to, turn one's hand to, take in hand, undertake,concentrate on, focus on, devote oneself to
Middle English (as a verb in the senses ‘set upright’ and ‘guide, direct,’ hence ‘write directions for delivery on’ and ‘direct spoken words to’): from Old French, based on Latinad- ‘toward’ + directus (see direct). The noun is of mid 16th-century origin in the sense ‘act of approaching or speaking to someone.’
Things that move people
Accesible- Easy to Understand
What moves me
bugs
things with wings
air-wind
We live in a city surrounded by water
Wind is a constant resource
took my breath away statements
what that mean and how emotions can move people
In a time of such instant gratification-instant everything
I think weve lost alot of our patience
Time for our mind to move around
Mobility on a
social
economic
physical
mental
technological level
What moves us and draws us in
the idea of a ship as the origional way of discovering the world
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Walk the circumference of San Francisco.
Light posts - string
Learn how to make fisherman's rope
Take the course on Hyde pier
The idea of a line
String theory
Connectivity
Point of intersection
Point of connection with people
Bridge
What that means in a sociological contxt
Line
line1
līn/
noun
noun: line; plural noun: lines
1.
a long, narrow mark or band.
"a row of closely spaced dots will look like a continuous line"
synonyms:dash, rule, bar, score; More
MATHEMATICS
a straight or curved continuous extent of length without breadth.
a positioning or movement of a thing or things that creates or appears to follow a line.
"her mouth set in an angry line"
synonyms:course, route, track, path, way, run"a line of flight"
a furrow or wrinkle in the skin of the face or hands.
synonyms:wrinkle, furrow, crease, groove, crinkle, crow's foot, laugh line"there were lines around her eyes"
a contour or outline considered as a feature of design or composition.
"crisp architectural lines"
synonyms:contour, outline, configuration, shape, figure, delineation, profile"the classic lines of the exterior"
(on a map or graph) a curve connecting all points having a specified common property.
a line marking the starting or finishing point in a race.
a line marked on a field or court that relates to the rules of a game or sport.
FOOTBALL
the line of scrimmage.
the equator.
noun: Line; noun: the Line
a notional limit or boundary.
"the issue of peace cut across class lines"
synonyms:boundary, boundary line, limit, border, borderline, demarcation line,dividing line, edge, margin, perimeter, frontier"the line between Canada and the United States"
each of the very narrow horizontal sections forming a television picture.
PHYSICS
a narrow range of the spectrum noticeably brighter or darker than the adjacent parts.
the level of the base of most letters, such as h and x, in printing and writing.
noun: the line
PRINTINGCOMPUTING
denoting an illustration or graphic consisting of lines and solid areas, with no gradation of tone.
modifier noun: line
"a line block"
each of (usually five) horizontal lines forming a staff in musical notation.
a sequence of notes or tones forming an instrumental or vocal melody.
"a powerful melodic line"
a dose of a powdered narcotic or hallucinatory drug, especially cocaine or heroin, laid out in a line.
2.
a length of cord, rope, wire, or other material serving a particular purpose.
"wring the clothes and hang them on the line"
synonyms:clothesline; More
a telephone connection.
"she had a crank on the line"
a railroad track.
a branch or route of a railroad system.
"the Philadelphia to Baltimore line"
a company that provides ships, aircraft, or buses on particular routes on a regular basis.
"a major shipping line"
3.
a horizontal row of written or printed words.
a part of a poem forming one row of written or printed words.
"each stanza has eight lines"
the words of an actor's part in a play or film.
synonyms:words, part, script, speech"he couldn't remember his lines"
BRITISH
an amount of text or number of repetitions of a sentence written out as a school punishment.
4.
a row of people or things.
"a line of acolytes proceeded down the aisle"
NORTH AMERICAN
a row or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.
a connected series of people following one another in time (used especially of several generations of a family).
"we follow the history of a family through the male line"
synonyms:ancestry, family, parentage, birth, descent, lineage, extraction,genealogy, roots, origin, background; More
(in football, hockey, etc.) a set of players in the forwardmost positions for offense or defense.
FOOTBALL
one of the positions on the line of scrimmage.
a series of related things.
"the bill is the latest in a long line of measures to protect society from criminals"
synonyms:series, sequence, succession, chain, string, set, cycle"a long line of bad decisions"
a range of commercial goods.
"the company intends to hire more people and expand its product line"
synonyms:brand, kind, sort, type, variety, make"a new line of cologne"
informal
a false or exaggerated account or story.
"he feeds me a line about this operation"
synonyms:story, piece of fiction, fabrication;informalspiel
"he fed me a line"
the point spread for sports events on which bets may be made.
5.
an area or branch of activity.
"the stresses unique to their line of work"
synonyms:line of work, work, line of business, business, field, trade, occupation,employment, profession, job, career, specialty, forte, province,department, sphere, area, area of expertise"my line is engineering"
a direction, course, or channel.
"lines of communication"
synonyms:course of action, course, procedure, technique, tactic, tack; More
a manner of doing or thinking about something.
"you can't run a business on these lines"
synonyms:course of action, course, procedure, technique, tactic, tack; More
an agreed-upon approach; a policy.
"the official line is that there were no chemical attacks on allied troops"
6.
a connected series of military fieldworks or defenses facing an enemy force.
"raids behind enemy lines"
synonyms:position, formation, defense, fieldwork, front (line);trenches
"behind enemy lines"
verb
verb: line; 3rd person present: lines; past tense: lined; past participle: lined; gerund or present participle: lining
1.
stand or be positioned at intervals along.
"a processional route lined by people waving flags"
synonyms:border, edge, fringe, bound, rim"the driveway was lined by poplars"
2.
mark or cover with lines.
"a thin woman with a lined face"
synonyms:furrow, wrinkle, crease, pucker, mark with lines"her face was lined with age"
3.
BASEBALL
hit a line drive.
Origin
Old English līne ‘rope, series,’ probably of Germanic origin, from Latin linea (fibra ) ‘flax (fiber),’ from linum ‘flax,’ reinforced in Middle English by Old French ligne, based on Latinlinea .
line2
līn/
verb
verb: line; 3rd person present: lines; past tense: lined; past participle: lined; gerund or present participle: lining