Storycubes, Diffusion Generator, Urban Tagging
Friday, April 4th, 2008. Edmonton: Panel discussion & workshop featuring renowned artists Giles Lane and Orlagh Woods of the new media, urban-based and community-engaged arts group Proboscis.
Proboscis is an artist-led studio with collaboration at the core of their creative practice and ethic. They work across disciplines & practices to explore social, cultural and creative issues. Their projects probe relationships between individuals, communities and their environments. These engagements are deeply rooted in specific situations and contexts, over longer periods of time.
THE STORIED CITY: NEW MEDIA & COMMUNITY ENGAGED ART
Panel discussion. Brown bag lunch - bring your lunch!
noon - 1:30 pm@ 2-957 Enterprise Square (Univeristy of Alberta downtown campus), 10230 Jasper Avenue
Giles and Orlagh will discuss their innovative, community engaged art projects and practices, including Urban Tapestries, StoryCubes and their Diffusion book-generator.
STORYCUBES WORKSHOP: Make your own StoryCube!
hands-on workshop
4:00 - 6:00 pm
@ ihuman Studio, 10231 - 95 Street
Join Giles and Orlagh in this hands-on workshop at the amazing ihuman studio to create your own StoryCube: a 3D mapping of spatial experiences and visions for change.
StoryCubes are poetic and playful instruments for exploring ideas in three dimensions. They are tactile thinking and storytelling tools for exploring relationships and narratives and enable groups of people to build shared narratives. They reveal different perspectives, new connections and associations.
** For more information about participating in this workshop, please e-mail storycube.edmonton@hotmail.com
Presented by the University of Alberta’s Tory Chairs Arts Dialogue, Faculty of Arts, Departments of Sociology, Humanities and Computing, Art and Design, Masters of Art in Communication & Technology (Faculty of Extension), and iHuman.
- Rob