Hi everyone,
tonight was the last ‘event’ of the Remedios Terrarium exhibit.  Congrat’s again!  Inspiring is the least I can say about this discussion.

It’s now time to wrap-up, celebrate and get together to share our experience of making RT.

Our exhibition closes tomorrow, Friday, at 7pm (The gallery is not open on Saturday-for sure).
Technically you can start packing your things at 7, but please don’t start before that(unless you have to -JS, Flower -ok)
The gallery has to be completely cleared on Monday night at the latest.  Wall repairs are going to get done by Lynn’s technicians on Tuesday.

After asking around all day today I think that Saturday is the best day to get together and take the biggest things down. It would be nice to do as much as possible in groups.
Sunday and Monday, I will be out of town and I don’t know how much people will be around/available to help out (except for Lenka and Desh taking the Cones down, and Flower taking care of the plants on Monday)

Strike Schedule:
Also available on the TML-Shared Google calendar  (BUT MORE PRECISE HERE)
(visible at
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=enc0mlbupaurd8qhenaducvd0g%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Montreal
and
http://topologicalmedialab.com/blogs/calendar)

Friday:
10 am: Tim gets the big Hexagram cart for the weekend.
–  :  JS takes some projectors down.
8.30 pm Nacando Productions launch- cocktail @ NFB-ONF  (the National Film Board of Canada) 1564, rue St. Denis, Montreal.  See RSVP list at the bottom of this email **
Do not hesitate to contact Desh if you want to come but haven’t confirmed “Nacando Productions” <nacando@gmail.com>

Saturday:
(I will take my car in case some people need to take stuff home after)
9 am, Harry and JA taking the cells and the lights down.
11am, Elena and Flower are getting started on the vitrine and their respective things.
Tim is packing the sound gear
Ayesha is taking care of Sebald Theater
Jhave is taking his pedestal and computer home.
–Patrick unavailable

Sunday:
– Patrick, Harry, Tim unavailable
– JA -out of town.

Monday:        
complete strike
Lenka - cones
– JA -out of town.

Tuesday:
10 am someone else than Tim returns the Hexagram cart, because Tim will be out of town. (any voluntary? please let tim <timothyvsutton@gmail.com> and I know.)
4-6     campfire : project debriefing.  We should revisit, things that worked well as well as things that didn’t work so well; and talk about the project documents and events documentation for project archive.

Notes:
Eliot, Doug, please make sure that one of you come either Saturday or Monday to take the sensate tapestry and related gear.
Jae Ok, and other Touch2 folks, I will take care of removing our things from the wall, but if you want to help out, just call me Saturday.
I think that the projectors are going down tomorrow because they are needed for another event in the evening.

If you were not concerned by any of the above, but you have time in your hands, or need help to take your things down, or whatever, please come Saturday 11am.

On Saturday night or Sunday I will send another e-mail with progress report and estimate of the amount of work that’s left to do for Monday.  Hopefully most of it is done.

Thanks to all for being part of RT’  Please join us in celebrating the end of this journey tomorrow night at the NFB and for the project debriefing on Tuesday during campfire (4-6 pm).

**Desh, here is the list of people that have told me they would come.  I might be a bit off, because I’m writing that by memory, but I remember that the number was 14.
1Xin Wei
2Harry
3Many
4Many’s friend
5Kiani
6Kiani’s friend
7Morgan
8Morgan’s friend
9JA
10Pascal
11Manuelle
12Francis
13JC
14Jhave ?

(revised to match ‘green’ paper calendar in TML -xw)

Monday March 31 - April 3

Clean up lab, prep for return of gear

Tuesday April 1
4 to 5 campfire, rehearsal
8 documentation of Touch2

Thursday April 3
5 to 7 Roundtable (discussion begins at 6)

Friday April 4
RT Crew Party @ NFB (see google calendar for details)

Sat, Sun,
Independant Strike Organized by subgroups. Lab Clean-up complete.

Monday April 7
General Strike complete and equipment return.

(JC has general notes)

I’ve asked Louis-Andre to come up with an overall design of the vitrines that makes a more coherent
landscape / timeline, and incorporates and contextualizes the individual contributions.

We need to commit now on the individual elements, so
Louis-Andre can work out a global design for the vitrine.

Here are the potential / actual elements for the vitrine –

Flower — plants clustered, perhaps around pillars, or w/r the gaps in the glass;
Tim — 1 subwoofer, small mics perhaps near the gaps in glass;
JS — a projector on a remote control car (potential).
Ayesha Hameed — a representation of the Sebald table with Mark Sussman. (to be confirmed)
Ayesha, can you describe explicitly what it is?

Louis-Andre is available to meet after hours and on the weekends, so he will call folks together.
Please proactively contact him and give him your phone numbers and emails,
availabilities.

One of LA’s concepts is a long ribbon of paper, a semi-mythical, curly “river of history”
clear across the entire width of the vitrine … cut variably
with perhaps hand-drawn as well as printed images texts from all the TML documentation
(eg salient stills)

Nadia Frantova will help Louis-Andre with the print and physical (sculptural) production,
and associated work (perhaps getting salient stills, making photos of potential
detritus around the lab)

JC & JA will confer with Louis-Andre provide some continuity of design across the cards, TML brochure.

At the campfire, we raised the possibility of a poster that comes out of the same design
(maybe looking like part of the paper river?)

The idea emerged of using the same / similar material (tissue papers, cheescloth, ??) to dress the speakers
and even the atrium (west) wall for Touch2.

Maybe the paper “screen” across the glass of the vitrine could be ripped in a way to lightly suggest unwrapping the Gallery.

If I understand your idea — the irregular running strip could be pasted to the glass at eye height, with some holes to peek through and other places where the image is printed directly on the paper sheet.

The peek-holes would line up with printed images behind the paper screen, but since I imagine the strip is not very wide (12″ to 36″ irregular ?) these are symbolic peek-holes, not really necessary.

We have some ideas from last night that may begin to make more coherent material connections across the show: vitrine — wall treatment — dressing the loudspeakers that will be on the floor of the main Gallery. Even the costume for Touch2, perhaps….

Josee-Anne, can you verify with Lynn when exactly we can work in the vitrine?
- Xin Wei


Moment

• Tuesdsay February 5th, 16h00-17h30 @ TML (EV-7.725)

People

• Xin Wei, Harry, Patrick , Josee-Anne, Michael, Desh, Soo, JC, Morgan, Ludwig, Tim, Valerie, Felix, Lenca

Keypoints

• Presentation of the new Terrarium blog
• JS Jitter mini-demo of Terrarium patches will happen tomorrow PM [will happen friday PM+evening] in the video production.
• Josee-Anne is designed as the point person to communication between the gallery and TML.

Summary

Production areas

• Sculptural artifacts
• Projections
• Environmental fields (sounds and lighting)

Projections zones

• Floor
• Sidewalls
• Ceiling

Different scales of time

• 20 day period
• 3-4 day cycles (ie. different cycles of the moon in a month)
• day-night cycles
• immediate response (millisecond range)

Day/Night cycles

• Night - as the moment when plants grow.
• Day - as the moment when the Terrarium dreams.

Membrane states

• Different states depending on what is present on each side of the membranes/glass walls. (4 possible states)

State of the State

• Xin Wei says that the State Engine could be ready in two weeks
• Important to be able to share sketches of state clocks

During the opening event

• Dancers in the wall

Patrick’s demo

• Suggesting : liquids and vegetation to be incorporated into the cells
• Jitter : shape recognition (JS)
• Max/MSP : microphones (Tim)