Fish Stories Community Cookbook
We’ve been commissioned to do a project for Paths to Pier 42, the Fish Stories Community Cookbook. We’re collecting recipes, stories and drawings from residents of the Lower East Side plus ecological info about local fish and the East River Waterfront for a spiral-bound cookbook to be handed back to participants in October. We’re holding workshops and tabling at local events. The cookbook is meant to celebrate local cultures while activating a relationship with the incredible local estuary.
Public events at Pier 42 are May 9, July 18 and October 25. On May 9th we’ll be offering fish drawing for kids and be on site to talk about our project.
Fish Stories Community Cookbook website
Fish Stories Community Cookbook flyer
iLAND collaborative residency
I am super excited to be participating in a process-intensive, collaborative residency with iLAND (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance). Meeting periodically over the space of a year with five collaborators, our Urban Backstage group is exploring the East River Waterfront in Lower Manhattan and the surrrounding urban landscape with an ear for ecological infrastructure, among other things. So far we have made a tour of the former Collect Pond that lives beneath the civil, criminal and family court buildings as well as the former Five Points neighborhood, explored the Lenape myth of the Corn Maiden and talked a lot about CSOs (combined sewer overflows). Between us our interdisciplinary activities span landscape architecture, dance, musical theater, playwriting, media art, socially engaged practice and we will collaborate with scientists. We will have at least one public engagement event, which will be on July 18th, 2015. Thanks to LMCC for collaborating with iLAND to form the three research groups. (The other two are Water and Immigration and Embodied Mapping)
LMCC Bldg. 110 Open Studios
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Next weekend we’ll be participating in LMCC’s open studios as the culmination of our lovely residency. My collaborator Meredith Drum and I have been working hard on Oyster City, designing and building the interfaces and working on the Governors Island site of the five site project.
Swing Space Residency Open Studios
Saturday and Sunday, July 13 & 14, 12-6 PM
Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island
Many thanks to LMCC for the fantastic opportunity to have access to the island during the week, for the studio with a view and for the community of artists.
Machine Wilderness
How did I get here? This week Meredith Drum and I will be at ISEA 2012: Machine Wilderness. We’ll be giving an artist talk on Friday and have made an AR piece for the Block Party on Sunday – a satellite object related to Oyster City. Responding to the theme of transportation, our AR bubble addresses how oysters get to the desert. You can “go inside” and touch four objects to reveal their secrets.
Oyster City
Oyster City is an augmented reality walking tour and game about the history of oysters in the New York City area that I am working on with Meredith Drum and Phoenix Toews. The project is being built for the iOS platform (iPhone and iPad) with software that Phoenix developed. Oyster City will make visible relationships between ecological, social and economic histories as players interact with virtual objects and narratives placed in the landscape. We will be presenting a workshop on using augmented reality along with an early demo of our project at Mobility Shifts: An International Future of Learning Summit at the New School in October.