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Anastasiya Bachmanova Poetry Bombing Paper and tape Spring...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:02:40 -0500

Anastasiya Bachmanova

Poetry Bombing

Paper and tape

Spring 2012

    The art intervention that I chose to carry out is a “poetry bombing”. The idea was to print out short poems and quotes on small pieces of paper, and tape them up where people might stumble upon them- in bathrooms, on walls, and other publicly used spaces. This project was done on campus mostly, and in a couple of other spaces around Monterey.
    My hope for this project is to inspire individuals to feel empowered to make a change, whether with their own outlook on life or for social issues affecting others. I included a variety of quotes for a wide impact. For example, a few might refer to feminism, some speak positivity, and others are directed towards international issues. The point is to show that one person can make a difference, even with as simple an act as a contagious smile. In a university people are often bogged down with stress, so this is a little way of reminding them of the little things that are great and that everyone is responsible for their own happiness.
    The nature of this work is minimalistic and ephemeral. The printed quotes are small and hidden so they are really meant to be a surprise. Eventually these quotes will be gone, whether people remove them or the cleaning brigade removes them. As soon as they are noticed, however, curiosity should strike for them to read it. It is non-invasive, yet interactive when people find these messages, almost like the fortunes in fortune cookies. In the same way they are acknowledged, remembered if they speak, and then thrown away. It would be interesting to continue the project, expanding on the poems as well as the audience, to see if it has any effect on the community.

Someone Else's Shoes

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:34:00 -0500

Someone Else's Shoes:

Walking a mile in another persons shoes is a saying that we should all be familiar with, but is very rarely practiced. The proverb’s meaning is essentially; get to know or understand a person before you criticize them and my intervention is based on this meaning. A friend and I documented our walk in each others shoes.

Video

Jorge Amezcua

Name: Thelma Riley Title: AIDS Intervention Medium: video Year:...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:16:43 -0500

Name: Thelma Riley

Title: AIDS Intervention

Medium: video

Year: Spring 2012

Project description:The propose of this intervention was to bring light Aids and getting students to talk about the issue and the increasing number of people contracting this disease. I wanted students to think about their friends, their actions and what can be done to prevent themselves from getting a STD and or AIDS. Bring light to a college students arrogance towards this subject matter and over all starting a conversation on this topic.

Water Wasted, Becca Hoffman Paper Mirrors Window Crayons Spring...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:11:34 -0500

Water Wasted, Becca Hoffman

Paper

Mirrors

Window Crayons

Spring 2012

For my Art Intervention, I wanted to bring more attention to the amount of water that is wasted each day. Most people like to think they are being efficient, but there are many ways in which people waste water, and might not even realize it. One of the obvious water wasters is when people leave the sink faucet on while brushing their teeth. I found that someone can waste up to 3 gallons of water while brushing their teeth, and this truly shocked me. There are also things around the house that people can abuse in regards to conserving or wasting water. Dish washers and washing machines should only be used if they are cleaning a full load, other wise you are wasting the water that is being used to clean the half full loads.

For my intervention, I wanted to bring attention to some of the easy, yet often forgotten, ways of conserving water. I wrote on some bathroom mirrors leaving statistics about wasting water while brushing and how many gallons of water the average American uses per day. My hopes were to leave the stats in the persons face, forcing them to read them and be conscious of their water consumption.

I also left signs over a sink, in the dish washer and in the laundry room. My goals were to get people thinking about what they were about to do. Do they have a full load of clothes to put in the washing machine, or are they trying to clean just a few shirts? Can they make a conscious decision to conserve?

Cecilia Alvarado The Sign of Something Better Coming rainbow...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:59:00 -0500

the materials

Cecilia Alvarado

The Sign of Something Better Coming

rainbow ribbon, scissors

2012

In the Catholic faith, the rainbow symbolizes the covenant between God and the people, saying that He will never punish the earth in that way, and it also symbolizes God’s mercy. My intention was to make people think about the symbolism of the rainbow, and to also provide anyone who may be having a hard time in their life that there is something better around the corner: “… you can’t have a rainbow, without a little rain.”

Joey Cloud You can shine Paper, spray paint, paint For my...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:05:58 -0500

Joey Cloud

You can shine

Paper, spray paint, paint

For my project, I placed a large sun in an area viewable to students. I got the idea from my understanding of how weather often affects our mood. There is usually an abundance of fog or clouds overhanging the campus, and this usually results in a bitter feeling among most of the students. I thought I’d intervene by putting a sun where everyone could see it that would always be there regardless of the weather. My intention is for people to see my painting and feel uplifted in some way and maybe realize no matter how bad things may seem, the sun will come up again

Warren Freeman Vodka vs. Muscle Milk Printer paper 2012 For my...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:47:00 -0500

Warren Freeman

Vodka vs. Muscle Milk

Printer paper

2012

For my project, I choose an issue that is very relevant to those that try to find the balance between working out and consuming alcohol. I wanted my art intervention to point out how much drinking alcohol effects your workouts. Regardless of if you’re a serious athlete, bodybuilder, interested in maintaining your figure, or just burning a few calories, drinking effects your workouts. To convey this message, I posted facts about alcohol affecting your workout around the Otter Sports Center. It is common that people drink on weekends and return to their workout routines Monday, expecting to get the same results they would if they didn’t drink. By posting these facts throughout the gym, I hope to spark conversation, debate and change.

Nalini PersaudMedium: PerformanceMaterials: Questions from...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:34:00 -0500

Nalini Persaud
Medium: Performance
Materials: Questions from http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/

I got this idea from television and internet shows such as, Are you smarter than a fifth grader, California On, and Jay Leno. I basically waited in the lobby of the building I live in and asked those passing through to answer questions off of the California state standards list. The project was supposed to highlight some of the issues with our existing standards for students. This intervention, without a doubt inspired debate and catalyzed social exchange. The most common response I got from interviewees was something along the lines of, “Wow, I’m so dumb.” But others did not think it was necessary to know such information because it did not relate to future professions. In my opinion, there are so many questions that can be asked about education, society, and our youth after looking at the results. Are students not learning what they are supposed to? Are the “standards” themselves not up to date or irrelevant in the first place? Is it actually necessary to know anything when an infinite source of information is resting in our pockets?

Claudia Mejia Voice Materials: Tape Year: 2012 Project #1: Art...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:47:01 -0500

Claudia Mejia

Voice

Materials: Tape

Year: 2012

Project #1: Art Intervention

People like to think that we all have a voice, that we all have the right to stand up and speak up, but the truth is that that isn’t so. Minorities everywhere are underrepresented and their voices are hidden from the rest of the world: gender minorities, racial minorities, sexual minorities, etc. People are silenced and others who notice do nothing about it. So, giving this idea a more literal image, I put duct tape on my mouth, literally silencing myself and went around the town like that. The first place being my sister’s bus stop where children came up to me and asked about the tape. One little girl told me to that it was dumb, “porque si no puedes hablar, no te van a oir (if you can’t talk, no one’s going to hear you).” A man and a woman at the Salinas Transit Center discussed how they felt immigrants were being pushed aside and ignored. A man in front of McDonalds told me that “your place is wherever you feel secure” and if you don’t have a voice, finding that place would be much harder. People at the Northridge Mall didn’t come up to me as easily, but they pointed and stared. Some teenage girls whispered and wondered about the tape. A little girl told me I had tape on my face, right before her dad came, smiled questioningly, and then walked away.

Mattie Krall and Xavier Bellante Materials: Mat Board, Razor...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:37:00 -0500

The participants

3. It's the magic number.

Badly drawn dong intervention

Found another one!

A badly drawn silhouette gets banana

This one came out really clean!

Mattie Krall and Xavier Bellante

Materials: Mat Board, Razor Blade, Logo, 4 excited individuals

Art Intervention #1

Welcome to the intervention.

Your journey begins with a subtle alteration of your mind. Xavier’s website and brand identity are all Serrated Banana. The concept behind Serrated Banana is that boundaries and rules are limitations to art and to enlightenment. Our thought processes are usually routine. It takes something novel and unique to stimulate the brain and allow for new connections to form. Serrated Banana, two words that would never be tied together under any normal circumstances. You read them and you can’t help but be curious. Even if you don’t go any further with your investigation, your brain took a moment to step out of it’s typical activity.

There’s been a logo for some time now, but it’s never been made public. Xavier’s original idea was to take the stencil and “intervene” himself, but Mattie had a better idea. Her idea for this project was to take that logo and disperse it in an almost viral fashion and have 4 individuals unrelated to Xavier’s website and work chosen to participate. They are friends, but their anonymity was guaranteed by the project. They were each given two copies of a stencil of the Serrated Banana. Their only instruction, do whatever you want with them. Destroy them, use them, distribute them for others to use, whatever.

5 days later the “treasure hunt” began. Xavier brought his own copy of the stencil and Mattie brought her camera. We started searching the campus and the Ord for evidence of the project. And we found a good amount. Xavier performed his own impromptu intervention with a piece in the beach tunnel. But the best part was finding that the participants had actually used the stencils, or at least given them to someone who had used them.

This project is ongoing. None of the stencils were required to be returned and none of them have been. So who knows where the next Serrated Banana might appear. Keep your eyes and mind open…

Lucy Cooke “Analog Sharing in a Digital Age” Paper...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:19:00 -0500

Lucy Cooke

“Analog Sharing in a Digital Age”

Paper and Tape

“Re-post” opinionated images from the Internet in physical format (printed) in common public spaces. Multiple copies of these “posters” are placed in locations with a small noticed that people so inclined should take them and “share” them in other spaces they frequent. This action returns to the true meaning of sharing something “publicly” and invokes a stream of thought on both the subject present in the poster and on the nature of “sharing” in today’s society. Once the Internet was the anonymous public space and the analog “real” world the personal realm of sharing ideas. This action draws attention to how in today’s world this has been reversed and breeds thought on the ramifications/implications inherent in that fact.

Victor R Bar Code linoleum print, wheat-paste I chose to use an...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:51:03 -0500

Victor R

Bar Code

linoleum print, wheat-paste

I chose to use an image that all of us are familiar with and place it on objects that would initiate a thinking process for the viewer. I used a linoleum print and carved out the bar code from that and printed it on to paper so that I could wheat-paste it. The bar code idea came from wandering the isles of Safeway one night in a different state of mind. I kept looking at how everything we purchase has a bar code so I began to think, what if I chose to place a bar code on anything would that make it purchasable? The main point that I was trying to get across is how we are able to slap a bar code onto anything and immediately assume that its purchasable because of the bar code. I feel that the bar code is a symbol in our society and that symbol represents consumption.

Maddie Borkenhagen “Humanity Over...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:32:00 -0500

Maddie Borkenhagen

“Humanity Over Sexuality”

Medium: Paper and Pen

Year: 2012

Project Description: I am a strong supporter of gay rights and with Proposition 8 gaining more media attention recently I wanted to create an art intervention that would draw attention to sexuality. Although I think it is important to recognize our differences, I wanted my intervention to emphasize our commonality. I chose to write out terms that we use to label our sexuality beside empty boxes while marking the box for what unites us, our being human. I left the labels lightly lined to represent how shallow these descriptions are in comparison to our humanity, which I made boldface. My aim was to both draw attention to homophobia, which continues to be a major social issue, and to send the message that we are all human, and as such we should respect one another regardless of our sexual preference. The “sexuality banner” was posted near the VPA buildings on a street that sees a relatively high volume of traffic. Hopefully my intervention will not go unnoticed, and at the very least it garnered some attention from passerby as it was being put up.

Jessica Trainor “Drunken Despair” Medium: Bottles duct...

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:55:00 -0500

Nick

Glow Sticks

Glow Sticks

Jessica Trainor

“Drunken Despair”

Medium:

Bottles
duct tape
yarn
glow sticks
glue
tissue paper
cardboard
red paint
and a tree

Year: 2012

Project Description:

This is a project to bring awareness of the severity of drunk driving. I hung up 96 beer and wine bottles to represent the 96 people who die everyday because of drunk driving. On some of the bottles I put the faces of victims so that people who come up close and touch the bottles can see that these victims are not unknown. They are children, parents, and grandparents.This is a very important topic to me because I have been affected by the tragic loss that can be the result of drinking and driving. A drunk driver struck and killed one of my best friends, Nick Haverland, on May 11, 2011 who was riding his bike on his way to his final at Ventura College. The man driving his hummer hit a mother and daughter on their bikes and then rear-ended a truck stopped at a red light before hitting Nick. He then proceeded to drive all the way to his house before police caught him. His alcohol level was .39 percent. The legal limit is .08 percent. That is almost 5x the legal limit. No one should drink and drive because it just takes one time to destroy the lives of others. My goal is to show people that they could add to the number of people who die a day by making bad decisions, or could be the victim themselves. It took me 4 hours just to hang the bottles, so there were a few people who would ask me what I was doing and I would talk with them about the effects of drunk driving. Some just walked by and looked, others would read the sign out loud and then talk about it with friends as they walked past. I think this could be very interactive piece if people decide to walk up to it. They can touch the bottles making them sway and clink together. They can also look at all the different faces on the bottles.

Tiffany Sanchez “Stand up and Speak Up” Mediums:...

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:18:00 -0500

Tiffany Sanchez

“Stand up and Speak Up”

Mediums: poster paper and markers

Year: 2012

Project description:

Free speech, Education, and a student, how do these three things share a connection? Well that is a student has the right to free speech about their education. We cannot sit back when we are getting screwed over by the government. I wanted students to take recognition to what is happening. So I used posters with drawings and facts about the budget cuts and tuition raises and stood in a place that many students seem to populate every day, so that the students would see my drawings and want to know more about what it meant. I believe the budget cuts and tuition raises are very important and are within the social systems of economic issues. My intervention caused some social exchange with curious onlookers. This intervention I presented has been an on-going intervention throughout the state of California at various college campuses and has caused more than a debate, but uproar from the students. I believe that my projection/art intervention was more of an urban intervention because it was done in a populated area on campus near the residence halls, in sight of all students, and in no way was anyone disturbed, but more curious than anything.

Tyler Nicholson Title: Have A Say The mediums were Legos and...

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:24:43 -0500

Tyler Nicholson

Title: Have A Say

The mediums were Legos and paper.

The year is 2012.

My Art Intervention

We tend to shy away from reality and problems around us, but what if this reality we fear was “sugar-coated”, not by the media, but just shown in a simpler way? This is what I’m attempting to do, instead of using images of real life; I want to call attention to my posters using Legos. The same messages of “please vote” shown with Lego images that will hopefully cause people to actually stop and look at them because they are different. I believe voting is important especially with today’s economical and war issues. I believe it did cause debate because it shows what could happen if people do not vote or are apathetic and that leads to discussion of the topic. By no means is my intervention a performance, guerrilla architecture, or interactive media. I believe my posters are closest to an urban intervention because I put them on news boards where people look for information and are in plain view without disrupting the community.