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Kristin, this email got bounced (says your mailbox is full), so I'm posting it here:
Hi, Kristin, Thanks for the info. How about I call you Saturday, May 1, 11:00 am Austin time? --Tom
Just some business stuff here, and other info from emails:
The testsite number was changed from 04.3 to 04.4
Also, received this email from Elizabeth a while back suggesting we include a performative aspect to the project "which would be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings (6/17 - 6/19) and then we would pick up the normal Sunday afternoon schedule on June 20 - - these then wouldn't have any performance involved."
Also, email from Kristin to Tom, dated 4/27/04:
I'm talkin' oversized strawberry and other piņatas in the backyard tree. and a whack 'a mole piece that either goes in the front yard or on top of the table in the dining room. I have many other thoughts (abandonning the food supplements for a different idea) and so performance ideas to run by you [when we talk on the phone].
Tom ~
Laurence would like to know if we can open the testsite on Friday, June 18... and so the installation dates would be June 13-18. We could probably have you arrive earlier for the installation. These are the dates that work best for him.
Kristin
Tom ~ I'm still thinking!
Good to know... Laurence has invited me to house sit the third weekend in April so I'm going to start making some art there and photographing the objects in his house for the baggage scanner. Liz and I are going on a materials spree soon, probably Friday so that i can begin the backyard animation.
Also important. I suggested that we push back the installation to the last week in May. If that works for Laurence, would it work for you? Otherwise it looks like the week before with an opening on Thursday night. (Laurence is flying out of town on Friday).
I have struggled to upload a video test that i made with the veejay software. my server is down tonight.
Tom ~ I am meeting with Laurence tomorrow and I'll pass on these new ideas. I'm still thinking a lot about the dining room, and the living room. To tell the truth, after my Arthouse talk on Thursday, I've been doing only fun things.
I downloaded software for veejaying. I'm testing to see if it will work for my cult movie. I think I might collaborate with an area artist/musician on the sound for that projection because it's easier to build the work that way. I'm going to have my mixer sent down too.
I looked up vegetarian empty capsules and they are really easy to find. I also found vegetable powders, such as beet, spinach, kale, something more yellow (i bookmarked the link)... and that led me to consider things like chocolate pudding (powder form) and premixed lemonade crystals. Where do we draw a line? It could turn into Noah's Arc for essential foods. I'm not 100% on following through with this particular idea yet. I'll get more time to think about it on my day off, Wednesday.
Can you remind me which computer you need and which OS? I'll also confirm the dates. They would like to book your flight soon. My other question is whether a week later would work for you? Say third week of May if that's even an option for them. I just figure the more time I have outside of school, the better, but if it is a conflict I'll make it happen - been there before! And we can discuss this more later, but you can stay at Laurence's a full week if you like. That's what the last writer did.
Hey thanks for re-posting the drumkit piece on our page. It is among my favorite works that you have informed me about since I began following your weblog. I haven't experienced it in person yet I am completely attached to it. Life altering art.
Following are a few ideas that I'm working through [ideas induced during decaffeine high]...
I propose that we play more with testsite as a central theme in our installation. And considering that you and I share a fascination with sci-fi (film and literature), we might introduce a fictional science base that our audience activates. I'll depart now into loose ideas.
Backyard: hang a screen or painted panel of plywood off the deck toward the grass slope. (fyi: the deck is raised above ground a bit). Lay out several blankets on the grass. The screen or panel could be illuminated with an animation of a faux scrambled/pixelated signal that ultimately reveals no significant message - more to the point it is repetitive and brainwashing, somewhat cultish. I bought $20 veejay shareware that I'm going to experiment with for building this type of animation. Perhaps you or I could mix some sound for this projection.
Dining Room: we could transform this room into a laboratory station for assembling food rations. We could have available rubber gloves, lab coats, goggles, lo-tech swivel magnifying glasses, clear edible capsules and colorful vegetable powders, such as kale, beet, carrot,... and bowls or containers for the finished capsules. Also a special looking box for iradiating the capsules. It has a button on the side that triggers a laser beam to turn on. It turns off when the button is no longer pressed.
Doorways: I could hang loose mostly transparent fabric or lt. weight plastic curtains (resembling the kind of curtain found as you enter a walk-in cooler, those made with vertical strips). The curtain/s would be projected on with a periodic animation of a blue horizontal scan (as if it has a function to sanitize or read information).
Baggage: could be scanned as people enter the apartment. There could be a slide or video projection on a cardboard video monitor or sloppily directly onto the cardboard scan box that reveals pre-recorded images of things from Laurence's house. A person, perhaps myself or one of my students could perform the scanning station. When a bag is place, a slide is advance. The slide carousel could be set up to have a blank slot in between so that when there is no bag it advances to darkness.
Living Room: This is where the computers are. I haven't gathered any more ideas yet. Thought I'd throw some of my initial ideas your way first. Just keeping in mind, testsite. To me, testsite has a laboratory feel and also references excursion, satellite, surveyed area... lots of other associations.
I thought we could pick a few associations and see what ideas we generate from there. Then we could see how some of the ideas overlap into other areas and find what if anything emerges out of that. Maybe we find our way back to the lounge. For example, the living room could be the lounge of a base or station. I'm also keen on making some impromptu videos while we are installing which can reside on the web or be projected.
All things we do can be brought to an inexpensive production level with some brainstorming once we resolve more our mutual interests in the collaboration. We won't need to rent a computer for me to use. Do you think there should be two stations, one for you to work on even while we are there and one for audience? Then there would be the potential for live exchange (wouldn't have to be a constant - you could break away and come back any time).