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Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 28. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
Aaron Hraba and John Wesley Mannion proposed a dynamic response to the call for site specific installations in the ischool. Their intention was to juxtapose digital imagery from a variety of sources to create a video work that was, in essence, a time-based collage. Consequently, through web-based streams and digital time lapsed videos Hraba and Mannion aimed to [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 28. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
Thomas Day was the only undergraduate student selected to participate in the iSchool windows project. As a student in the school of architecture Thomas developed an installation that echoed built forms. The structure was the only project that utilized space above and below ground level, designed to span from the base of the window well, [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 28. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
The ‘Information Spiral’, curves around the wooden paneling that graces the first floor of Hinds hall. The honey colored wood complementing the dominant earth tones of Hughto’s ceramic wall reliefs. The wall reliefs present a visual documentation of the historical presentation of information. The artworks begin with ancient cave wall symbols, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greeks, cuneiform and [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 18. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
Gail Hoffman and Errol Willett now have their Windows Projects permanently installed in the window wells, adjacent to room 018 of Hinds Hall. The two installations work well together, successfully complementing the surrounding environment without competing for the viewers attention. Gail’s delicate treatment of her figurative subject matter provides the space with a poetic interpretation of [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 14. Aug, 2009 | No Comments
Darcy was hard at work with a hammer drill when I visited her at the installation site of the ‘Misc.’. Working in the confined space of the window well the drill seemed louder and more cumbersome, but Darcy seemed excited to get the project installed. Working with an assistant from Syracuse Universities Sculpture Department each [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 14. Aug, 2009 | No Comments
Gail has completed 90% of the figures she intends to use for the iSchool installation. The figures, shown here, are cast in wax. The wax figures will be then be encased in investment (a mixture of plaster and sand) and heated in a kiln for the wax to ‘burn out’. This will leave a negative impression [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 19. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
This week, Gail visited the ischool to check the scale of the wax figures she has made against the proportions of the window well. After careful observation she stated “I’m very happy…. I think they are the perfect size for the space”. During her visit, Gail also met with Roger Merrill, (Director of IT Services & [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 19. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
Darcy demonstrates how the support structure for her text based installation will fit together. Artist, Darcy Van Buskirk with her ‘Misc.’ installation. The text will now be sent away for chrome plating before final final installation can take place. Darcy Van Buskirk spent two days welding a support system for her Windows Project with assistance [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 18. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
Errol Willett has finalised the design elements for his ‘Carbon Espalier’, installation that will be installed as part of the ischool Windows Project. The ceramic tile installation is composed of the 3 elements featured above and will be adhered to the concrete wall that runs parallel to the ground floor windows of a classroom in [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 17. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
Clare Olsen, assistant professor in the school of architecture, is in the process of fabricating the ’node’ elements for her windows project. Assisted by recent graduates from the school of architecture, she repetitively glues colored squares of plexiglass at right angles to clear plexi rectangles. The composition of each ‘node’ is based on the original computer model and the number [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 08. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
Steel, laser cut into text, for Darcy’s Windows Project The steel is back from the fabricators and Dacy is making precise measurements of the cut metal text. When the individual characters are enlarged to the size Darcy needs, the dimensions of each one is slightly different. Consequently, it is more difficult for Darcy to gage where to [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 07. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
Molds allow for editions or multiples of an object to be created. For the Windows Project Gail will make multiple wax copies of the plastic doll. Each wax model will be altered slightly: shortening or elongating the different parts, changing the facial features and the body posture, and adding different clothing and accessories. When all the wax models [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 30. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
John and Aaron were in a contemplative mood when I met them to discuss their iSchool project on Saturday morning. At this preliminary stage of their project, they are focused on finding ways to combine visual data from a variety of sources streamed across Internet into a video montage using complex visual manipulation software problem. [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 26. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
Darcy Van Buskirk, was selected for the iSchool windows project for her clever use of text in relationship to the installation space and the fundamental relationship of language to technology and communication. Initially the work appears straightforward. Lettering, magnified to fit the width of the window well, laser cut from steel and plated with chrome. However, the layered meaning [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 26. Jun, 2009 | 2 Comments
Assistant Professor Clare Olsen is busy researching materials for her installation, ‘Hovering Nodes’, to be located in Hinds Hall as part of the iSchool windows project. The work carefully considers the unique location of the window well and its specific context within the iSchool. Olsen is particularly interested in the light quality within the installation space and a [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 23. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
I met Gail Hoffman (VPA Adjunct Professor), in the foundry at Syracuse University, as she started the process of creating molds for her iSchool Windows Installation. Gail spoke enthusiastically about the project and the opportunity it has given her to try her hand at a new medium. Up until this point Gail has exclusively used [...]
Posted by acofer in Windows Project Winners on 23. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
This morning Errol Willett, (ceramics faculty and department chair) and Jen Gande (studio potter and recent M.F.A. graduate) were hard at work in their studio pressing tiles from plaster molds and transferring an intricate design onto tile forms to create a shallow relief image. They are working on a total of 3 different tile forms that [...]
Posted by Jaime Snyder in Windows Project Winners on 28. May, 2009 | No Comments
Now that the selections have been made, the next stage of the Windows Project will focus on fabrication and installation of the pieces. Each of the selected artists will spend the next few weeks refining their concepts and making practical decisions regarding materials and construction. Last week, the project management team including Anne Cofer, Jaime [...]
Posted by Michael Clarke in Windows Project Winners on 18. May, 2009 | No Comments
by School of Architecture undergraduate Thomas Day Three crystalline forms representing content, technlolgy, and people come together in the form of a web of connectivity. Information is the common thread that connects these areas, and give them their form. Excerpt from artist’s proposal: These three towers of plexiglass will shimmer in the light during the [...]
Posted by Michael Clarke in Windows Project Winners on 18. May, 2009 | No Comments
by School of Architecture Assistant Professor Clare Olsen Clare’s peice is meant to capture the generative, emergent and anticipatory nature of the iSchool reserach and study. The work is meant to interact the natural processes of weather and seasonal change. Excerpt from artist’s proposal: The installations are designed to not distrac attention from the daily [...]
