elizabeth / DANM210 / Project Proposal Rough Draft/hard questions

Alex asks: What it the purpose? Who is the audience?

I'm interested in pursuing my art practice as a community building. I see three networks available to me at present: The geographic community centered around UCSC, an online network of individuals, and my personal relationships. I don't have a lot of ambition toward reaching a lot of people. Like I presented in class, I'm interested in the experience of unexpected discoveries, rare communions.

Developing my prototype, I think I am experimenting with audience participation. using the network to generate an echo like response to a request for content and contributions. The weaving is a metaphor and metonym for community discouse. The archive is a model for collective memory.

I'm still thinking about this.

Christoph asks: How does your project relate the computer and the inside of a room.

I'm interested in the room and the laptop and a way of comparing material and digital space and the effects upon privacy and creative work. They are related easily and kind of hilariously through language. The content of the computer developed from everyday language for space and craft... window, wall paper, desktop, trash, open, close, cut, paste,...

I guess thus far the project in a kind of inquiry into the relationship. I don't know how they are related, but I am interested in creating a situation and a collection of inquiries into the subject...

I'm still thinking about this too.

Kyle asks: How will you address class in this context? Is a room of one's own still necessary? Does the laptop replace the room?

This question haunts me. My response after several weeks of consideration sounds overly philosophical and responds with another question..."What does it mean to "address class"? To whom do I make the address? This circles back around to Alex's questions.

The project has re-figured itself since its earliest incarnation. Virginia and her room seem to play a less central function in determining the project as I am focused on prototyping this archive experiment. I said in class the other day and still feel that good art will be able to account for the economics that give rise to it. So the question becomes, maybe, if I would aspire for my work to be good "What are the economics that give rise to my art." Or art in general?

Sorry to answer your question with more questions. I'm kind of thinking out loud here. How does one address class in any context? What does that mean? What actions satisfy that function?

In terms of my interest in exploring spatiality, I'm interested in interrogating the cost and availability of both space and privacy as a consequence of class.

I'm still working on this question.