Opening Reception: Oxy Arts and the Center for Digital Liberal Arts present: Field Notes

Students from ARTS228 | Book Arts: The Hand Printed Book collaborated with media artist Keith Skretch for the second Ettinger Projected Poetry and Art Project: "Field Notes", which activates the south-facing wall of Herrick Chapel with video projection throughout reading days and finals of the spring 2018 semester. The Ettinger Projected Poetry and Art Project transposes the multifaceted bookmaking process from the printed page to a dynamic digital mural. Drawing on iterative and collaged materials, the projection will conjure an artificial daylight cycle beginning each day at sunset. 

As human intervention has stressed and reconfigured the local ecology, the laser phosphor lamp of a digital projector traces out shadow forms across the nocturnal arc. 

 

The reception will also showcase the culminating class book "Field Notes", which is a collaborative research, writing, and printing project. Colonization, invasion, exploitation, and displacement essentially erased and stripped both the individual and the collective of identity and sense of place. The ecological issues of the dismantlement and loss of sacred spaces, habitats, and cultures as the result of human threats to the environment were seen with attention and engagement. 

 

The Ettinger Projected Poetry and Art Project is a public art project that infuses the written word and images into everyday moments around campus. Presented nightly for several hours during reading days and finals week each semester through spring 2020, the rotating exhibitions will project provocative and intellectual work on frequently viewed spaces on campus, inspiring deep collaborations between the arts and digital sciences and building pathways and partnerships that mirror our increasingly pluralistic world.