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 ?

CREDITS arranged by creative work
March 6, 2008 xw
March 16, 2008 jc
March 16, 2008 xw
March 17, 2008 ts
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Main Gallery

Cell Sculpture
Patrick Harrop; Gregory Rubin, JC Nesci, Candace Fempel, Evan Marnoch, Dirk Blouw, Jean-Sebastien Rousseau; Flower Lunn
Welded PVC plastic, mono-filament, fabric, water, plants.
Description: A net of transparent cells fills the airspace at diverse heights.

Calligraphic Video Projection
Jean-Sebastien Rousseau (Michael Fortin)
Max / Jitter, OpenGL, projectors, Mac G5 computers, cameras
Description: Multiple streams of camera input transmute to responsive video projected onto the surfaces of the Gallery, providing weather.

Sound Field
Timothy Sutton
Max / MSP, Logic, microphones, Mac G5 computer, hardware sound
processors, speakers
Description: Ten channels of synthesized and transmuted sound form a
palpable dynamical field.

Dynamic Light Field
Harry Smoak
Lighting instruments, DMX dimmers, LAN interface, Max, Macintosh computer
Description: 1. A row of luminous pattern at the base of the south wall refracts activity from the sidewalk. 2. An array of lights build and respond to conditions in the gallery.

Electrified Flight Sensate Weaving
Marguerite Bromley (XS Labs); Elliot Sinyor, Doug van Nort + IDMIL McGill; WYSIWYG group TML
20′ wide, 4′ high Jacquard-woven fabric, conductive thread, custom electronics, Arduino micro-processor, speaker, Mac Mini computer
Description: A 20′ wide weaving diverts flow around a corner of the gallery. It sounds as a visitor approaches or touches a pattern.

Black Box

Suitcase
Elena Frantova, Timothy Sutton (Lenka Novak, JS Rousseau)
Suitcase, plaster sculpture, electronics, sound.
Description: An old suitcase contains a doll-sized TML, with plaster figures illuminated by dynamic lights. Multi-channel, algorithmic sound playback system.

Cone Sculpture
Lenka Novak
Mono-filament, cast glass, projected video.
Description: Seven glass disks are suspended from cones of monofilament. A projection of a river textures on to the monofilament.

Plant Systems
Flower Lunn
Plants, moss, soil, wood, string, aquaria, water, pumps, gro-lights, timers
Description: Arranged moss clusters at the base of the vitrine. Water plants float in the cell sculpture. Soil-based plants climb trellis made of string and plastic tubing.

Vitrine Corridor
Louis-Andre Fortin, Flower Lunn, Nadia Frantova, Elena Frantova, Timothy Sutton
Cut and printed paper, found objects, plasma display, subwoofer, microphone, sound processing system.
Description: A line of stills from the official TML documentation videos forms a vector from Mackay Street end through 3 sections of the vitrine. The actual, messy history lies on the floor as found objects and images from the lab. Microphones and moss cluster at the air gaps between the vitrine’s glass plates, absorbing air, sound, moisture. Low sounds permeate the space.

Sebald Cabinet
Mark Sussman, Ayesha Hameed
Wooden cabinet, television set, speakers
Description: This cabinet, augmented by recorded sound and video, references a series of table-top theater pieces by Mark Sussman and colleagues in Great Small Works based on the writing of W.G. Sebald.

Documentation Pedastal
David Jhave Johnston
Cabinet, PC computer, Display monitor

Events

Remedios Terrarium Event
Sha Xin Wei, Morgan Sutherland, Emmanuele Thivierge (Yon Visell)
Max / C, Mac G5 computer
Description: The Gallery’s weather constantly evolves according to pre-composed tendencies as well as activities inside and outside the space.

Vernissage March 20
Lynn Beavis, JA Drolet
Thursday March 20, 18h00 - 20h00

Touch2 March 20, Dusk (19h06)
Choreographer: Soo-yeon Cho
Dancers: Soo-yeon Cho, Kiani dal Valle
Edited video: Desh Fernando
Video & Projection: Jae-Ok Lee
Real time video design : Jean-Sébastien Rousseau
Set design & Construction : Josée-Anne Drolet, Pascal Simard, Jae-Ok Lee
Costume design : Josée-Anne Drolet, Jae-Ok Lee
Touch1 video : Touch creators, filmed by Desh Fernando
Touch1 sound design : Timothy Sutton
Touch2 sound editing : Soo-yeon Cho
Touch2 sound sources : Timothy Sutton, Freida Abtan, Akumu
Lighting : Harry Smoak
Coordination : Josée-Anne Drolet
Technical consultation : Harry Smoak, Jean-Sébastien Rousseau

Description: A 6 minute version of the Touch1 dance video of two dancers will be projected onto west wall. At dusk, Soo bursts from a paper structure on the west wall. She and Kiani dance among the suspended cells and the Tapestry, leaving visual traces on the wall.

Hi Remedios and Terrarios, (project leads)

Here is what you will find in this email:

1- fofa meeting summary
2- prod strategy
3- close

—1-

I met Lynn Beavis at the gallery last week to ask her the questions that have come up in the group meetings.  Here is a summary, mixed in with production related questions.

Here is a rough inventory of gear available at the gallery:
Black theatrical curtains to block sunlight coming from the space between the west wall and the entrance door.
2 x 8′ diagonal projection screens (one can be used for rear or front projection, the other one will not do rear projection.)
6′ Ladder, 10′ latter
2 x 5000 lumen projectors (now mounted on the ceiling, but could be brought down.)
2 x DVD players
2 X TV monitors
spot lights
2 x 10′ orange power cable extensions
14 power adapters on the grid
8 power outlets on the floor

Here is the list of things to do on our side:
Book the Hexagram lift from Mark Baher for the setup days. (when we want to access the grid)  There is another one that the  Lynn could get access to if we are not able to get this one.
Decide whether we want people to access the space through the St-Catherine street door or not?  (can be locked for the duration of the show)
Define needs for technicians -when -what.  They normally do most of the simple setups.
Determine the Lettrage (Lettering) that we want them to put up on the walls. Generally title of the show and main info goes on the entrance wall ; the wall that is visible from St-Catherine street is also commonly used, though not required.
Provide text for a (2-double sided pages) brochure.  This is something optionnal that can be produced quickly as it is made internally. If someone want to do the layout, JC maybe, consult me and or Lynn directly for more detailed design requirements.  Here is the starting point: ( .eps format text layout ) (charcoal gray, pumpkin orange + 4 logos have to be on there) the advantage of this is that it is free and doesn’t take long to make.  All other printing we’ll have to pay for (cards, official brochure, posters, flyers, etc.)
Provide link for the gallery website (and other promotions channels).  Elena, can you confirm that we’ll have something up soon and the address. (remediosterrarium.topologicalmedialab.net or topologicalmedialab.net/remediosterrarium)

Genral:
it seems like we might have been too optimistic about the space that is available behind the west wall.  It is very narrow and hard to access, so we might want to think of an alternative location for the G5s.  Those who were thinking of using it as storage should check for themselves asap.  The space to the right of the entrance has been used by other people before (Bill Vorn), because the computers are separate from the main gallery space, but but they are still visible.
The vernissage event has been anounced and prepared for Thursday March 20th. (booked with conferences services, wine, catering and invitation organized by Lynn/the gallery.)
We will have access to the space for Load in on Tuesday the 11th at 9am.  (next week)

For the security list, I’m just missing ID number for Lenka at this point.  I have joined the latest version, please check that this information is correct, it is necessary to access to the space. (We will not have the Gallery’s key, so after hours we have to go through the security desk to access the space (24 hours access).

—2-

Last week at the campfire meeting it has been proposed and generally approved that the project needed to evolve in components for which there is one person responsible to lead and speak up if there is a problem to fix.

Of course it is too late to ask for a detailed production plan from each team, but if you have that material available, it’s always useful to share it.  The kind of questions to ask are those that will help managing energy, resources, time, for all projects, so scheduling, listing needs, dependencies, relationships with other groups, etc is gold. By the end of the week, we will need to have a complete inventory of your material needs and a setup schedule, so that we can come up with a general who-what-when list for the setup of the show.

Here is a list of resources people by role:
equipment related questions : Tim
promotion : JC
web based promotion : Elena
documentation - photo : Morgan
documentation - video : Ludwig (temporary)
artistic direction : Xin Wei
project coordination : J-A
event coordination : TBD  > JA

The projects by responsible person:
Cells : Patrck
Cells -Winnipeg : Greg
Cells -Mtl : JC
Real-time video projection : JS
Dynamic Lighting : Harry
Sound Field : Tim
Camera Tracking : JS
State Engine : XW
St-Catherine street display area : Flower
Vitrine : L-A (technical Ludwig : temporary)
Sebald Puppet Theatre : Ayesha
Glass Cones : Lenka
Curio Box : Elena
LED treads : Flower
Vernissage : TBD
Touch2 : Soo

(Is all equipment booked for your group? )

Budget: it has been suggested to come up with 2 numbers: a minimum scenario and an ideal scenario budget (approximate dollar amount)  Xin Wei will then be able to manage the budget according to the available funds for the different research areas involved in the Terrarium project.  (no need to cc me, I am not doing budget, except for Touch2)

Please gather phone numbers and availabilities of the people involved in your group + any information that you think is pertinent for coordination purposes.  Since the blog is public, please send me the most sensitive information like phone numbers by e-mail. I’ll gather this and make it available on paper this week.

—3-

See you tomorrow @ 4pm, Mtl time, for campfire.  Transmitted @ U Manitoba through Skype with JS and Greg as facilitators.
I would appreciate if someone could volunteer in taking meeting notes. My notes are too specific to be usable as a meeting record.

Thanks to all.
Bye.

–
Josée-Anne Drolet

.514.817.92.1.3

Research Facilitator
Topological Media Lab
Concordia University

Hi,

Patrick’s setting up with Dirk Candace Greg the co-design and parallel production processes over in Winnepeg. We should be coordinating with that. Am I right to assume that JC is oour local link to that process? Who else is prototyping cells here — JS, JA, Michael? Speaking with JC, I expect JC + JS will make prototype cells embedded with screen material to make cells that can hold an image. We can then dispense with a large flat screen (fastfold), and simply project from the floor up to a strato-nimbus layer of such PROJECTION species of cells suspended near the ceiling. This would hold the room together aesthetically much better (than using screens or sheets at the ceiling) of course. Comments?

Thanks to JC, JS, and Xin Wei for working on this image that will -most likely- be used for the promotion of the show.

It has been submitted to Lynn Beavis, FoFA gallery director last Friday.