Burke Mayne and Sam DeVine are the main executives for Burke's Pipeline Project "Outdoors Inside". This will be a multi-media installation piece representing a scene that would normally be outside, located in an inside area. All the senses will be included in this square-shaped sculpture, including sight, sound, feel, smell and possibly even taste. Projectors will make up 3-4 of the walls, on them being projected live webcam feed and pre-recorded feed. The ideal scenes as of right now are an urban street area or a porch, and we are hoping to create this in a gallery space at Canzani.
The main idea of this installation is to give a sense of losing reality, as if it were a scene from a dream.
My role is this group is titled under Documentation. I'll be working with Braden Hoop as well; we both are photo majors, but he is also more familiar with video recording and editing. One of the final formats of this project is going to be an actual documentary of the entire process, so our job is to make that work. Burke will be directing us as far as what shots he specifically wants, and we will take that creatively and make everything look great.
Also as the documentary crew I will be taking photos of the entire process and sharing those with the Head of Editorial Kate Joh and Art Director Annie Chrissy-Burley. We then will be using them for the publicity and web documentation aspects. I'd really love to manage the publicity aspect, everything from designing to printing to displaying.
Not listed in job description is general helping. As many installations go, a ton of constructing is needed to make this come to life, so everyone will be taking part in that.
IDEAS.
As a team we really want the viewer to take the time in our installation to take it all in, get a real feel for it. It's going to indulge all the five senses (hopefully - taste may be out at some point) in a 'melted sanity' kind of way, really like a dream. The thought of creating a porch seems most logical for spending time in, as we can have chairs placed. Space heaters or fans can control temp. changes, flame-less items such as wall-flowers and candle warmers will control the smells sensed like fresh cut grass, apple pie, laundry, etc., and the surrounding projectors will incorporate the visuals, as well as the physical visuals. As far as taste, we thought about maybe offering lemonade or sweet tea, then also using it in the video feed, but that involves more cost and possible liquid catastrophes. We plane to use natural, real materials, so it will be like actually touching a wood porch and real grass, things of that manner.
Another scenery idea could be a park bench, where the senses include sounds of dogs barking, runners, children screaming, birds, cars honking, people talking, etc. Scents could be donuts and coffee, grass, car exhaust, rain, and cig smoke. This scenery would be a lot less expensive and still portray the same theme.
To make any idea seem more as a blurred reality, a conceptual idea we could do is having really morphed sounds. For example, on the porch you could think a sound is a car pulling in a gravel driveway, but it sounds distorted (like the music video Sam showed in the meeting) to where the viewer has to concentrate on it to fully recognize. If our porch is going to have a window on the wall we could run video feed to that as well, to show the inside of the house, like people cooking and talking, almost like the perfect American family, to depersonalize the feel a porch might have so the viewer feel comfortable yet uncomfortable at the same time. I'm not too knowledgeable on the full effects that video feed can do, so as far as crazy conceptual things I'm not entirely confident.
