Presence and Definition

I swiped this off the web. Hope it doesn't offend anyone.

Language is so subjective, and the art language even more so. Intuitive thinkers often have a difficult time interpreting messages and signals in contemporary works, leading to confusion and misinterpretation.

I believe there's a disconnect between those who make art and those who contextualize it, sometimes hinging around those who view--experience--it.

In positioning SIS for funding its completion and promoting its exhibition, I've come to carefully define what it is I'm doing in relation to what others are; this way I can say "My work is like..."

With truly experimental work--the likes of which involve various media--it's hard to qualify it if it hasn't been done--or at least, not often or by many.

True, almost everything has been done in one way or another. But multi-channel electronic media changes perception, as does the meaning of presence: time and space.

Is the artist present or is the audience?

Engineering Other Options

Found this on the web; looks like the lab at NYCCT.

Don't know why I didn't do it sooner, possibly because I had gone another route to find the engineer that I've had working on SIS up till now.

However, my travels brought me to the Electrical Engineering Department of NYC College of Technology. I stumbled through an open door to the end of a class in electrical circuit design.

Talk about luck!

After a brief conversation with the professor, he said he might have a student to work on the project, if he didn't do it himself.

How awesome is that?

This changes the objectives of the KS, Timing being the lmitation. 

A cup of tea?

The lessons learned are many; other ideas emerged from the experience. Incorporate or ignore these?

Even thoughts on the concept resurfaced as the piece did its job--uncovering nuances passed by or forgotten.

Expressing or describing an experience has proven to be difficult, and the crux of the matter. Compounded by the abstraction of the work itself, its highly sensitive nature may not resonate with others. Or, as some pointed out, that deep sensitivity might be the factor that many can identify with. As I've said before: Either it's for you, or it's not.

The resurfaced memories have nothing to do with being an artist. They have to do with the transformation of a fleeting memory into a consuming reflection coursing through my veins.

Cancelling Kickstarter

But, I will relaunch shortly.

Never did I have an idea that crowd funding was an industry with blogs, websites, books and consultants. It kind of kills it for me, since I thought it was a grass-roots initiative to get things funded in an arena that was less jaded, more open to experimentation.

Understanding fully that crowd sourcing is not a platform to qualify work, I thought that something like KS would be a place to get funding to finish a project.
Although energy must go into any venture that involves money, the sources for backers are so many and so varied that embarking on a campaign such as this without careful project planning and management is a guarantee for failure.

New Video on Kickstarter

So far, I've gotten great reviews.
It's a little lo-res on YouTube but looks great on Kickstarter.
It's fast and shows the work going from image, to schematic, to prototype to exhibition. It really tells the story.

7 Days

A new vid is going up later today.
The scripts sounds nice, all voice over. I'm prolly gonna make it the lead image.
I've only got 41 people, and I don't know where or how I'm gonna get the rest.
Someone who's knowledgeable has actually said campaigns like this turn around; hope he's right!
Anyone who's reading this, please visit and pledge.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1887749049/steel-ice-and-stone

And, I have other thoughts; I'll try to get them down later.

Updates, rewrites, major etceteras.

Posted two updates this morning, they're employ some scare tactics, I know. But KS is looking bad and friends are kind, but they shake their heads softly.
PAIN!
Anyway, gotta smile. This thing won't get done otherwise. Here's the post:

I was lying in bed this morning, looking up at the ceiling, thinking: what sets this work apart from everything else I've done? 

Steel Ice & Stone is big: The photographs are 4 x 5 feet. And there are nine of them! All set up in the exhibition space. With sound playing as you walk through by each panel. Everybody who saw the prototype exhibition—the prototype—was blown away. Think about the real thing!

So, please. Send this to friends and urge them to pledge. I’ve got barely two weeks.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1887749049/steel-ice-and-stone

Thanks for your help.

Love you all dearly.

Anita

Sure hope this works.