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Basically, what I want to do is either live painting with music or air a film depicting the painting process (or both). In whatever case, the process and input will convey the message. I hope for no filler.

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I've got a track (or three) in mind, but I haven't formulated what sort of piece we'd be creating.

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Another option (and I would prefer this over what's been mentioned) is, assuming the venue has separate rooms, to have different things running in different spaces. So, you might have a formal 2-D art exhibit in one, room, an installation in another, the above mentioned film in another, and perhaps live painting in the "main" room. If we could get live acts to perform (perhaps a DJ or poet), and if the space outside the venue is ours to occupy, we can have the show spill out into the street (inviting people in).

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I have to run this by the group members, though.

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Let me know...

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Cory

Cory! All of this sounds fantastic. I put out emails to Dr. Armstrong and Dr. Smith, too. Thomas can provide nuts and bolts because he will have details about precedent (Dr. Walker arranged a gathering at Studio@620 for a seminar she taught on new media a few semesters back, before she left USF), and Julie is down with Dave Ellis and Bob Devin Jones, who own and operate Studio@620.

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I am ecstatic upon hearing your exciting vision, and methinks it is also a feasible plan. I expect we'll be quite welcome at the studio.

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quick thoughts:

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let's immediately find the means for filming the process and documenting the live-painting exhibition. Some artists at Penn State have invited me to skype audio to a distributed-installation on campus in March--perhaps this will provide occasion for us to go check out the media possibilities up on the 2nd floor at the Poynter Library. It would be so nice if they could provide us with technology for realizing your ideas.

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I am also very encouraged by your ideas about how to rhythmize the space, and although the space only has two rooms (I think), the rooms are fairly large, huge even. Another IDH group (Sarah Mae, Meagan, Jessica, Stephen) is also beginning to gel on a similar plan (multimedia composition, process, installation, performance), and so the chorus effect is already...in effect. I'm already imagining the sonic, visual, and conceptual moire patterns in the overlaps on and gaps between each installation/reading/what-have-you.

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Your instinct to open things up (inviting djs and poets from outside the seminar): yes, yes, yes, I say! But soliciting interest will be easier after the IDH projects simmer a bit more...at the same time I agree that we must feedback as a class on this plan, right away. Regardless of whether or not we can open up the event, we can leverage these discussions into a collaborative thread on the wiki that will, by sheer stigmergy, surely produce a coherent and inviting theme for our event/gathering/installation/presentation/happening.

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Slightly off topic, or perhaps this is only an aside, all of this "fielding" is precisely what writing with multimedia is all about. It might be fun to think of this effort to expand our arena as a Debordian derive: maybe this sort of "legwork" will anticipate our show "spilling out onto the street." I have a colleague at U Miami who has promotes this sort of performance/exercise, and I will ask her to share narrative, if you think it will help us mix this or some similar element into the vision.

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I will see Dr. Armstrong today, and I will seek audience with Bob Devin Jones and Dave Ellis tomorrow (today is booked solid!).

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Thank you for you timely response. One request: could you post our dialogue to the wiki? This will let others see/hear and feedback.

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peace always,

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Trey

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I hear you, here, too: no filler, and the content/form/idiom/etc will emerge, yes, aye.