learning the ropes

Towards the end of our last meeting, I expressed that it was important for me to begin building some physical things as a way to move forward, so Wendy asked me sketch some ideas.

This one turned out to be about the installation space itself.  I was playing with the idea of the size of the projected words and the sketch helped me to consider a few important points:

• What are the effects of scale in the installation?  What are the largest and smallest text that can be perceived in the space?  Is it desirable in some cases for the size of the text to be too extreme to read properly?
• How tall is the ceiling in the gallery space?  This has implications for the scale of the projected text vs. the scale of human height in the installation.
• What rigging capabilities exist in the gallery space?
• How dark will the installation space be?  This has implications for the way screens can be rigged.  Floor-to-ceiling cables in the dark would be dangerous.
• Are there photographs available of past installations so we can get a sense of how they used the space?

Lighting ideas

I want to start doing more on PAPER. I would like to draw more. More physicality as opposed to making everything w a keyboard and/or screen. That will be a big part of the exhibit, that is, the tension (literally) between digital and physical.

The hoisting of words with your whole body vs. the little finger hopping. I like the hoisting.

So, hoisting words. Heavy lifting. What would such an exhibit be like? Is it possible to tie emotions of words to actually lifting them?

Are the words going to be heavy words or frivolous words? What would it mean to have to exert great force and effort to lift trivial words?