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Viral Interventions: Final Documentation

Title: “Changing Intervention.”

Dimensions: 6ft (h) x 8.4ft (l) x 1.7ft (w)

Materials: hot glue, white, blue and purple yarn, chalk, silver wire, mirror, paper, pens.

Sentence: “Extinguishing stifled apprehension is necessary when longing for blinding change.”

The intention behind our “Changer” was to (literally) confront the public with the cliche reality of change being in one’s hands. Our sentence urges the reader to rid themselves of fear and hesitation, encourages them to exploit their longing for improvement by taking some level of action. In this case, the action we sought to incite was for viewers to walk behind an art piece consisting of a privacy screen, an object behind which a person might typically change their clothing. In doing so, they would encounter a much barer scene: a faceless individual, holding a mirror to them that’s questions ‘what they will change’ and ‘is what they are currently doing enough?’

The front and back of the piece work in conversation with one another. The statement displayed in the front contains the solution for those wanting change: taking action. The backside calls the viewer out by questioning their role in changing anything at all, prompting self-reflection. No matter which side is seen first, an answer would greet them on the other side to put the final nail in the metaphorical coffin of their idleness.

In documentating the public’s interactions with the piece, we appropriately found most passersby to read the work from afar while continuing on their way to shop, unmoved by the significance. A few who did approach commented on being unable to comprehend the meaning of the piece while others found value in the piece’s rhetorical inquiry. We found the array of reactions to prove our sentence’s theory. If anything is to happen, if change is to occur, confronting our inaction is necessary.

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FINAL PROPOSAL FOR VIRAL INTERVENTIONS:

“Privacy Zine”

This work explores the tension between external identity and internal transformation. By inviting viewers to confront their own potential for change, the piece becomes a mirror—both literal and metaphorical—reflecting individual and collective desires for growth. Using the structure of a privacy screen, the work blurs boundaries between public and private, challenge and opportunity, question and answer.

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Viral Interventions: Final Proposal

“Changing Screen”

Sentence: “Extinguishing stifled apprehension is necessary when longing for blinding change.”

Materials required: privacy screen, mirror, paint, hangers, cardboard, cardstock.

Following the feedback we received on our three initial proposals, we discussed ways to combine and develop the best elements in each. This discussion resulted in a design for a privacy screen we can build or buy and alter. We would use the screen as a “zine” of sorts; as a large, eye catching pamphlet to display our message and prompt the public to interact. The front would contain a question to lead the viewers to walk to the back side where they will find out sentence alongside a mirror that will ask the viewer about what change they’d like to see in the world. Finally, we thought of having an interactive panel where the public can take the first step in making that change happen by signing up for community building events and activities in Miami.

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Viral Interventions: Budget

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Viral Interventions: Timeline

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Viral Interventions: Production Task List

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Proposal 3: Interactive Zine

We are proposing to make an interactive, half human sized zine to display our sentence. Within the zine we would graphically dissect the sentence elements by using a few words per page. As the reader progresses in the zine, the sentence would transform from “longing for the blinding chaos to end in stifled apprehension” into “extinguishing stifled apprehension is necessary when longing for blinding change.” The zine would end by inviting the reader to our website where they can shirk their apprehension and seek change by signing up for volunteer opportunities in the community.

We discussed displaying the zine at spaces with traffic like malls, supermarkets and libraries. However, to ensure the message is spread well, we would also create digital versions of the zine that we’d share through QR codes that would be pasted as stickers throughout busy Miami areas like bus stops.

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Proposal 2: mixed media collage

Materials: paint, photos, pens, cardstock, fabric.

The idea for this proposal was to create a collage using mixed media including photos, paint and text. We would display fabric or a large canvas (where our sentence would be written) in a public space like a park and invite the public to contribute to the piece based on what the sentence made them feel with an array of materials.

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Proposal 1: Long Exposure Photo/Video with sentence printed

This proposal would consist of photographing a chaotic, hectic or in-high-motion scene to use as the background for our sentence. These elements would be in conversation with each other given the “desire for the chaos to end” that the sentence conveys in direct reference to the chaos in the background. Posters or prints of this works would be created and attached to different wearable objects like tote bags to be carried around and presented to the public.

The audience for this idea would be people we encounter by walking around Wynwood while wearing the object described above.

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QCQ

Quote

“[There’s enough visual record of me. You know, you don’t need a million pictures.] What it means to point the camera at another person, I think there is a brutality about that.”

Comment

What I interpret Kruger is expressing in this sentence, I have observed consistently in social media. Since photography became widespread and accessible, so did art. The invention has unquestionably aided the distribution of artwork that in centuries past was accessible to those in high class. This industrialization has also raised the importance of artist image and identity. Thousands of artists on social media inhibit a pressure to market themselves along with their work, to be seen, to be bought. There is a cruelty, a brutality to eternally binding work to artists. Inevitably, they are also being bound to all added subtext and intention the viewer chooses to believe their appearance conveys.

Question

Though photographing artwork has aided accessibility, who does increasing artist visibility benefit more in the end? Viewer or artist? Is exchanging anonymity for visibility sacrificing the mysticism that characterizes classical art?

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Viral Interventions: PRESENT

Sentence: “Longing for the blinding chaos to be extinguished in stifled apprehension.”

Given the passive desire our sentence carries, we chose to display it silently within the campus nature reserve. Upon discussion, we wanted the presentation to convey that quiet hope for multilevel change that the large majority of us hold despite not actively fighting to achieve it. We searched for natural material to use as a “canvas” to further camouflage the sentiment. The person in the video, part of the large majority, places the sentence, the sentiment, hidden away from the rays of “blinding chaos” in hopes that change will occur by external means. An at times flimsy wish without action to support it, as appropriately displayed by the palm being knocked over by the wind in the last few seconds.

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Viral Interventions: COMPOSE

“Longing for the blinding chaos to be extinguished in stifled apprehension.”

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Viral Interventions: IDENTIFY

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Viral Interventions: SEE

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Readymade Color — Final

Dimensions: 3ft x 2.5” in.

Materials: pool noodle, Copic sketch markers, poster board paper, and hot glue.

For this project we were tasked with altering the color of an object no smaller than 3ft. I utilized a pool noodle I had available in my house and transformed it into an object similar in shape: a marker. Color served a defining role in this project as it created an entirely new canvas atop the bright orange material of the pool noodle. Color also aided in defining all necessary features to make the object recognizable like the cap, differentiating it from the marker body.

I enjoyed combining elements from all the projects we completed in this second session of our design class by creating a monument that resembles a smaller object without the use of the most obvious or easiest material and giving a new use to a discarded object. Still, color was the protagonist of this work. It was an identity establishing element that transformed a bare object into an item with established purpose and value.

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Everyday Monuments — Final Project

Dimensions: 4ft 56” in. x 17” in.

Materials: chicken wire, cardboard, bubble wrap, brown paper, newspaper, flour and water paste, and spray paint.

This project presented the challenge of truly “making a mountain out of a molehill,” as the common phrase states, by aggrandizing an ordinary, smaller than 3 in. object, into an over 3 ft. sculpture.

I modeled a monument after a push pin because of its dramatic features and mundanity. When overlooking my 10 objects I was struck by how items like this pin have function-defined value. A push pin is a means to an end often involving hanging information or media of importance. A tool used to highlight and uphold while in itself being useless.

Hence, a monument to the overlooked, universally known push pin, as pictured.

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