The text for the workshop: MontalvoWorkshop1

Here are the individual diagrams:

We then split into groups of four and asked each group to come up with 7 ‘elements’ that their drawings shared. Then all 12 people met, we put up all the elements, and tried to find a way to distill them. Here are the seven final ‘elements’ condensed from the individual maps:

We will use the seven elements created at the workshop to generate the forms for the studio installation at Montalvo on January 12th.

The installation then, is an expression of the workshops, where we try to create a set of dynamic codes that correspond to an experience of place. These installations can be formal – in a museum of gallery setting as at Incheon, or can be informal, spontaneous events that take place on an outside wall or other non-standard place.

see workshops

see installation at the Incheon Digital Art Festival

The text we gave out at the workshop, including quotes from various sources we used on the log.

Each person was asked to create a map that explores the space that they navigate in Seoul. This could be a typical day, week or longer.

We then created 3 groups. Using all  the individual maps, each group created a single map that relates all the navigable  spaces to each other. Maps were drawn on tracing paper so that they could be laid on top of each other.

Finally, the participants divided into two groups.  Each group  drew a single map of the city using as many of the navigable spaces as possible  and the 7 elements from the previous workshop.

Thanks to the participants in the workshop!
Kyung-taek Lee
Eun-ji Lee
Hyun-jean Park
Jinu Kim
Tae-youn Kim
Woo-hyun Lee
Jung-ae Yang
Jee-hong Eom
Young-ju Kim

The first workshop at Nabi produced a series of elements to be used as organizing principles for the project. The workshop instructions.

Create a diagram and/or description of your perception of Seoul (examples):

Using all of the diagrams and descriptions created earlier as reference, create 7 elements that describe Seoul:

Testing the Elements. Take a diagram created in Part 1. Describe the diagram in terms of the 7 elements created by the workshop:

Participants:

Sang Cho

Jee-hong Eom

Byung-woo Kim

Jinu Kim

Tae-youn Kim

Eui-rock Lee

Eun-ji Lee

Kyung-taek Lee

Woo-hyun Lee

Byeong-moo Moon

Hyun-jean Park

Ji-soo Park

Jung-ae Yang

[here][now] investigates concepts of space and society through a virtual environment. The virtual and the real are counterpoints that serve as a dialectical springboard to a discussion about the ways that we, as modern citizens of the Information Age, function within the structures around us – in both virtual spaces, and in the physical spaces of our communities. The workshops are essential components to our work, as the exhibit is a reflection of its Korean location – to synthesize how people conceive of the city around them and find ways to characterize the relationships that they have to each other.

left
The large triangle represents ‘concrete’ concepts. The top circle represents ‘abstract’ ideas. Different elements are dispersed throughout the structure – garbage bags at the bottom; Charity, Liberalism in the middle of the circle; sneakers strung on cables across the middle of the triangle.

middle
The city is divided into 7 ‘cogs’. The sun and the moon represent time. A sort of perpetual clockwork. Charlie Chaplin is running on the outside. Roundly criticized for not expressing change in the city.

right
Time is running up and down, engineering from right to left. The ‘moral umbrella’ is in the middle, a compass turning in every way. The future “Red Light, Ice Cream Van” is desire. The past is narratives ‘Filthy Stories”. Organization is perceived as ‘Hustle and Bustle” on the left and a school with plumbing on the right. Loneliness, the candle, was supposed to exist in every quadrant.

part 1:
List all the elements of a city, each on a separate piece of paper. If there is not enough paper, cut up
more.

part 2:
Create about 4 groups, divide the pieces of paper between the 4 groups.
Create a single diagram that structures all the elements in a relationship to each other.
You can only use 12 words in the diagram. You can’t use the pieces of paper. You can draw anything
you want.

part 3:
As a large group, look at the 4 structures and create visual criteria, forms and behaviors, that characterize the pieces. For example, politics has an abstract quality, whereas an assembly hall is a concrete part of the city. Criteria could be complexity, color, scattered/orderly, tall, skinny, dense/sparse, etc.

These spatial and temporal attributes become the specification for the generated objects. So a fast
red thing could be a fire-engine and a tall, fat, etherial structure could be a bureaucracy.