Address Counterpoint

Greg Douras will have not one but TWO wonderful sound maps installed at the Art Lab beginning next Friday, December 4th. Listen to the first, Address Counterpoint, a musical representation of the addresses and zip codes, the “numerical history” of the homes Greg and his fiancee have lived throughout their lives. The left speaker’s piano is Greg’s “numerical history” of home, and the right is his fiancee’s.

Lorraine Pritchard

Greg Douras is a mild-mannered computer repair technician during the day, but by night he is a musician and sound artist who appears to spread his special brand of noise around the fair city of Fort Collins. He is often found bending ears at the Art Lab.

Eight Miles West of Opal

Kelsi Vanada’s two maps below (and her reading in December) investigate the scale of memory alongside the expanse of the landscape of South Dakota and the sweep of personal history (the true story based on a true story).

If I Told You the Title of This Map I’d Have to Kill You

This is Nicolette Bond’s re-imagined map of a re-membered home.
Nicolette Bond is.

“Map or puzzle? Home / travels”

Our next re-imagined map is by W. Scott Howard. “Map or puzzle? Home / travels” will be projected electronically in the Art Lab–but here’s a hint at what’s to come. Be sure to click on this link to see the entire work in progress.

Scott’s Bio: Writer/Dreamer/Reader. Loves poetry, good food & wine, conversation, mountains, oceans, deserts. Bicycle-commuter. Agnostic coffee snob. Gardener. NJ/NY-raised.

Dependent Origination

Our next map up for oogling is by the lovely and Bellingham-ed artist/writer/teacher Joanna Kenyon.

Look! Yes! Those are spiders! If you come to the Art Lab in person, you’ll get to see this 18″ by 24″ map. And remember, if you want to you definitely should write a response to this piece and read it on Friday, December 4th or Friday, December 11th!

Man Made

We’re lucky as all hell to have the Institute of Sociometry as part of our Remembered Maps exhibit begining December 4.

Man Made is a project in the works by the Institute of Sociometry that documents a 555 mile walk through the artist’s home state of Wyoming.

Exhibit 1

To see more of the project click here.

what it is

Institute of Sociometry or is practices and promotes guerrilla sociometry. As the term implies, guerrilla sociometry is similar in focus to text book sociometry, yet in no way conforms to the rigorous demands of science or mathematics!

Instead is deploys strategies from ’Pataphysics, Fluxus, Situationism, Neoism, Immediatism, Ontological Anarchy, and Dada Epistimology.

is has accredited 596 special agents in 23 countries. Agents are recruited via post and mailed special agent credentials and yearly gifts on (or around) their astrological cycle. Active is agents check in with reports, which are published here, and submitted on tri-fold displays at the quadrennial Sociometry Fair. See current reports for a selection of Sociometry Fair 2008 projects.