An interactive, multi-media community event, FreeWaves: Broadcast - A Collective Remix was a crowd-sourced collective reflection of the past decade in image and sound. Content (images & sound) was submitted via social networks, digital phone and website. The community was asked to submit images, impressions, found sounds, songs, maps, text, clatter, photos, poems, headlines, ideas, quotes, inspirations, verse etc. Media was re-presented and mixed live with 5 projectors onto interactive sculptures and surrounding architectural structures by video artists and musicians in the newly opened Art Produce Garden, September 2011. Project was part of ArtLab, the community engagement events during the 2011 San Diego Art Fair.
What we had in mind was to see how virtual community could overlap with physical community. How can content from the digital cloud connect to real space? Can that connection build community?
What we had in mind was to see how virtual community could overlap with physical community. How can content from the digital cloud connect to real space? Can that connection build community?
The first interactive community event at Art Produce happened spontaneously several days after 9/11/01. The community was invited to come in and make art. The results were exhibited in the gallery window. Without any email newsletters or social media, folks found out there was a place to go. They brought in photos, souvenirs from New York, memories to share.
9/11/10 was the first public event in Art Produce Garden, David Krimmel’s whEAThARvesT. We grew wheat in empty lots and in people’s yards, harvested it and flash mob danced it to the garden where it was processed by the community. We thought we should mark the decade after 9/11 with an interactive community event.
9/11/10 was the first public event in Art Produce Garden, David Krimmel’s whEAThARvesT. We grew wheat in empty lots and in people’s yards, harvested it and flash mob danced it to the garden where it was processed by the community. We thought we should mark the decade after 9/11 with an interactive community event.
