Past Exhibition:
The C5 Landscape Initiative
Through a collaboration with the Whitney Museum's artport site, you will be able to access The C5 Landscape Initiative GPS Media Player.
See information and link here.
May 24-June 25, 2005
Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 24, 5-8 pm
The C5 Landscape Initiative
San Francisco Camerawork presents The C5 Landscape Initiative, an exhibition featuring work by C5 Corporation, a new media collective based in San Jose, California. The Landscape Initiative is the culmination of three years of research and documentation of C5's performative expeditions into the landscape through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and big data analyses. C5 is interested in how people interact with data, and how data influences the way we interact with our environment.
The exhibition will include media installations that blend innovative uses of digital technologies to explore, navigate and map the landscape on both sides of the globe. Presented through work generated by database software developed by C5, this exhibition features digital photographic prints, fabricated sculptural objects, 3D visualizations and digital video. The exhibition will allow viewers to interact with C5's expeditions, while exploring our relationships to the land in a data driven world.
Photo credit: The Great Wall of California, from The Other Path, 2005.
The C5 Landscape Initiative will present three bodies of work. The Analogous Landscape: Rim of Fire tracks the ascent of volcanic mountains along the Pacific Rim of Fire by two teams of C5 artists/researchers. The images generated are the results of their 2003 climbs of Mt. Shasta in California and their 2004 climb of Mt. Fuji, Japan. The installation at Camerawork will explore the relationships between these sites through computer graphic mapping of the topographies and GPS navigation of the two mountains, as well as documentation of the climbing experiences and processes of the artists. It also will feature topographic 3-D sculptural models fabricated in aluminum using the data collected through Digital Elevation Mapping (DEM) visualization tools.
Mount Shasta
Mount Fuji
The Perfect View considers the attributes of "sublime" landscapes. Using the latitude and longitude coordinates of locations submitted by the geo-caching community, C5 went on a 13,000-mile motorcycle trek around the U.S., moving from location to location, documenting the sites visited. The exhibition will include photographs of seven sites juxtaposed with their corresponding computer rendered topographies and satellite images.
Photo credit: Site N 45° 41.284 W 121° 26.432, from the Perfect View, 2005
Throughout the world there are paths of significant historical, cultural and strategic implication. One such intriguing path is the Great Wall of China. The objective of The Other Path, the third installation of The Landscape Initiative, is to locate and describe the corresponding "other" of this significant path in the California landscape. GPS data collected during C5's trek of the Great Wall was used to help search matching data patterns collected on the China trek to the most similar data model in the terrain in California. The installation at Camerawork will include computer visualizations of the path search, and photo/video documentation projected onto topographic maps of China and California etched in glass.
The C5 GPS Media Player on the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Through a collaboration with the Whitney Museum's Artport site, http://artport.whitney.org you will be able to access The C5 Landscape Initiative GPS Media Player. The GPS Media Player creates an implicit timeline and meta narratives for each of the Landscape Initiative projects. It provides a means of documenting the projects from their point of common inception, data and process.
Mount Fuji
C5 artists include: Steve Durie, Bruce Gardner, Amul Goswamy, Matt Mays, Joel Slayton, Brett Stalbaum, Jack Toolin and Geri Wittig.
Curators: Marisa S. Olson and San Francisco Camerawork
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