User:Chrissy/PMOMM

Projects That May or May Not Be Made (aka PMOMMs)

What is it?
Why make it?
Workflow
Timetable
Rapid prototypes (scratches)
Previous practice
Relation to a wider context (personal reader?)
Choice made

7 Questions "answered"

nostalgic wending machine

What is it?
It's nostagic objects in a wending machine
Objects: e.g. MP3 Player, Portable CD Player, CD, Zines Or: Make a keyboard just with the keys "I", "<3", "hate", "[choose own word]

Why make it?
Because it's funny & visual, shows how old media not used anymore, preserved, not recycled, gives nostalgia vibes, ppl can buy it, owning it, but cannot really do something with it. Decoration object of "good" ol' times

Workflow
1. Buying old objects second hand in shops &/or online
2. Get epoxy & Find plastic containers/boxes/bowls 3. Support the object in the container 4. Fill in the epoxy liquid & let it dry & destroy afterwards the container. 5. Build or buy a wending machine & put the objects in there (lol) OR SOMETHING ELSE IDK 6. exhibit in a metro station or another interesting urban space, where ppl waiting (ask before)

Timetable
1. week: find & collect old objects 2. week: make the epoxy stuff 3. week: the wending machine 4. week: exhibit

Rapid prototypes (scratches)

Previous practice
none at all

Relation to a wider context (personal reader?)
Use of media, capitalism, recycling, Aesthetics

Choice made
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forest bathing

What is it?
It's an exhibition in a forest with collected/mixed-up/bootlegged/recycled of own & founded material

Why make it?
Avoid the white cube gallery space for exhibitions, inviting & gathering in a healthy/calm/relaxed/open space
Experimenting with other materials to print on, using of recycled materials
Bring online into offline

Workflow
1. Collect the collages/visuals/texts you made or found (see below in "PRODUCE & MAKE STUFF") Select screenshots of stuff you took, Make screenshots of interesting online articles, Choose Memes out of your archive 2. Find second-hand material like Bedsheets, Candles, Textile, Clothing, Curtains, Windows, Blankets, … 3. Print your collages/visuals/texts with screen print or cyanotype or … on the material 4. Hang & present it in a forest/green space 5. Invite ppl & let them smell/feel/touch/interact with the exhibition

Timetable
1. week: find & collect content 2. week: find & collect old material 3.-5. week: print 6. week: build exhibition & exhibit

Rapid prototypes (scratches)

Previous practice
exhibition in open/urban space
experimenting with printing techniques

Relation to a wider context (personal reader?)
(Depends a lot on the found content but:) Shit Art world, Anti-Work, Recycling, Over Production, Anti-Capitalist Strategies, Aesthetics, Politics of Memes, Stay with the mess

Choice made
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IDEAS

Rapid Prototypes

nostalgic wending machine

• Find nostalgic objects (e.g. MP3 Player, Portable CD Player, CD, Zines) …
• Make a keyboard just with the keys "I", "<3", "hate", "[choose own word]
• Pour epoxy around it
• Put it in an (old) wending machine
• Exhibit it in a metro station (urban space)

forest bathing

• Choose on of the collages/texts you made (see below)
• Select screenshots of stuff you took
• Make screenshots of interesting online articles
• Choose Memes out of your archives
• Print in on something which is not paper & second-hand (Candle, Bed sheet, Window, Blanket, thin Textile,....)
• Hang it in a forest
• Invite ppl to your exhibition to walk though, let them touch/feel it, smell it

hostile stickers

• Print sentences like "Cannot sleep here", "Cannot sit here" on stickers
• Sticker them on hostile urban architecture (e.g. benches) or (big) urban spaces without hanging-out areas
• Take a picture of it
• start an archive

PRODUCE & MAKE STUFF

Collage of today

• Picture/Screenshot Title of today's newspaper
• picture of today's sky
• picture of a today's outside plant
• ??what else??

Collage of phone Album pictures

• Search in your album for the tag "red" [or "ca", "vehicle", "food", "water"], choose with eyes closed 5 images, zoom in each in & cut them, make a collage out of it
• Add text to it: Describe the oldest image in your album with 5 words

Automated messenger poetry

• Choose one messenger on your phone (Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, …)
• Select the 4th chat
• Write the first left proposed words in the write window
• Write 1 line
• Delete what you wrote
• Write new 7 lines
• Write each sentence on something which is not paper

from LB1 Pad

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/LensBasedScratchNov2

• Make a snapshot from something that catches your interest in every space you enter, make a collage
• Find a texture that brings you calm
• Draw/Print on something that is not a paper
• Reverse one of the tone curves in editing
• Make a photo or video of a machine doing something other than it is designed to do
• Grab you phone, record video while turning around 360 degrees with your eyes closed. Randomly take screenshots from the video