A do-tank for the built environment.
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Tools You Can Use to Improve Your City
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Learn more at Ciudad Emergente
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Urban migration patterns: 1950 - 2040
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The Springmavera project was kicked off today at Immigrant Movement International (IMI) by Marco Antonio Castro and crew. This was the first workshop in the 7 month project, which will develop a mobile/local food growing system that will be managed by the immigrant community in Jackson Heights, and eventually moved to the Hall of Science in Queens.There’s so much more to this amazing project. Follow Marco, IMI, and the Queens Museumfor more info. And look for DoTank collabos wiht Marco et al in the future.
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Collaborating organization, Tomorrow Lab, is up to some goodness. Make sure you follow them.
Prototyping a digital graffiti device from inexpensive off-the-shelf parts and a custom Makerbot housing. The device will mount to a street pole / sign pole, and allow anyone to deposit voice recordings into it by holding down a button on the device and speaking, singing, professing. The files are instantly available via connecting a USB cable to a computer. More to come soon.
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Group Listening Alone Update
Finally posted a project description/musing on the Grand Central listening experiment! Take a look at it here.
We are looking to plan another Group Listening Alone meeting for the spring. Let us know if you have any ideas about places and pieces to pair up.
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Group Listening Alone
For those interested in spaces and sounds, we’ll be holding a listening experiment in the Main Concourse at Grand Central Terminal Friday, December 10th, at 7pm. A group of us will listen to Steve Reich’s seminal piece Music for 18 Musicians at the same time on our ipods, phones, whatevers while wandering/observing/experiencing this iconic space. The experience looks to examine parallels in micro and macro aspects of the piece and the place. Also, through simultaneously listening to the same piece in our own earbud worlds, we will be exploring tensions surrounding the creation of a personal identity in a social space.
The only thing you have to do is get ahold of an mp3 of Music for 18 Musicians (email us if you are interested and maybe we can figure something out). The piece is 57 minutes long so be prepared!
We will meet at the info kiosk in the center of the hall at 7.
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Spotted in Williamsburg, Brooklyn early today.
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GOLDEN BLUEPRINTS Show
DoTank:Brooklyn wrapped-up its participation in the Golden Blueprints show at WG Gallery in Greenpoint. Thanks to the organizers for getting us involved!
The show’s theme asked local artists to envision and present plans for improvements of the neighborhood. While adressing the theme of the show, DoTank presented the results of actually doing something to improve the neighborhood: ’chairbombing’ in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Both a video and an artifact were presented.
Read more about the project here.
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DoTank supports artists that make our communities stronger by removing mental pollution from our atmosphere. Here’s an example.
On April 25, 2009, more than 120 illegal billboards were whitewashed and replaced with art as part of the New York Street Advertising Takeover, a demonstration against illegal billboards in NYC. I followed street artists I Am, Posterchild, and Teeth as they installed their work.
Learn more about NYSAT at publicadcampaign.com
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