17 American students from St. Mary's College of Maryland met in Plaza de Armas and walked for two hours. They then mapped their paths and I animated them to create a collaborative time-based drawing.
Walking as Drawing
Cuzco, Peru: 6.28.11
17 American students from St. Mary's College of Maryland met in Plaza de Armas and walked for two hours. They then mapped their paths and I animated them to create a collaborative time-based drawing.
O'Miami Festival: Miami, FL: 4.10.11
In April I traveled down to Miami to collaborate with KC Culver, professor of English at the University of Miami. We created a project that combined the Walking as Drawing project with poetry. The event was hosted at ArtSeen, a gallery in the Wynwood area as a part of the O'Miami Festival.
A group people gathered and we talked to them about the concept of the derive, which is when "one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there." (www.bopsecrets.org)
We created a website for the project and published a piece of writing from each participant. Check it out here:
http://deriveproject.com
http://omiami.org/
What: Dérive Miami
Where: Artseen, Wynwood Who: KC Culver & Billy Friebele
Info: “Under the cobblestones, the beach!” Join us for a Miamian take on the Situationist practice of the dérive. Poets and guests will drifting through Wynwood and writing poems about their experiences. Afterward, an online map of the routes taken and poems written will be created by Friebele.
Conflux Festival!
The Conflux Festival was amazing. There were so many interesting people, projects, and ideas swirling around the Barney Building.
Here is the initial video edit from the submissions I received so far. If you are interested in participating in the project, please feel free to send me your drawings! It would be interesting if this continued to grow and change over time:
Walking as Drawing from Billy Friebele on Vimeo.
The 'Walking as Drawing' project was created at the Conflux Festival(http://confluxfestival.org/) on October 9th, 2010. Participants were asked to walk for 30 minutes anywhere within a 5 block radius. They tracked their walks with GPS devices or drew them on maps given out at the festival. 30 minutes was condensed into a one-minute animated drawing. For more info: http://walkingasdrawing.blogspot.com/
Here is the initial video edit from the submissions I received so far. If you are interested in participating in the project, please feel free to send me your drawings! It would be interesting if this continued to grow and change over time:
Walking as Drawing from Billy Friebele on Vimeo.
The 'Walking as Drawing' project was created at the Conflux Festival(http://confluxfestival.org/) on October 9th, 2010. Participants were asked to walk for 30 minutes anywhere within a 5 block radius. They tracked their walks with GPS devices or drew them on maps given out at the festival. 30 minutes was condensed into a one-minute animated drawing. For more info: http://walkingasdrawing.blogspot.com/
Walking as Drawing by Billy Friebele Sat. October 9th @1 pm
This project will involve participants in a mapping excursion that will result a collective time-based drawing. Using the boundary of Conflux as a limitation, walk anywhere within the contained space for exactly 30 minutes, thinking of your path as a drawn line. When time is up, take a picture of where you ended up. Pathways will be recorded with gps units, or transcribed using Google's pedometer:(http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/). The tracks can be emailed or given directly to me (bfriebele@gmail.com). These walks will be color coded and animated so that the paths form a time-based collaborative drawing through the streets of New York. The animation will be sped up to show 30 minutes of walking in 3 minutes time, and will be uploaded to the project website for viewing. The photographs will be presented at the end of the video.
Conflux is located at:
This project will involve participants in a mapping excursion that will result a collective time-based drawing. Using the boundary of Conflux as a limitation, walk anywhere within the contained space for exactly 30 minutes, thinking of your path as a drawn line. When time is up, take a picture of where you ended up. Pathways will be recorded with gps units, or transcribed using Google's pedometer:(http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/). The tracks can be emailed or given directly to me (bfriebele@gmail.com). These walks will be color coded and animated so that the paths form a time-based collaborative drawing through the streets of New York. The animation will be sped up to show 30 minutes of walking in 3 minutes time, and will be uploaded to the project website for viewing. The photographs will be presented at the end of the video.
Conflux is located at:
34 Stuyvesant St.
New York, NY 10003
Here is an example of what the animation of a single line will look like:
Traversing/Suburban: Target Drawing from Billy Friebele on Vimeo.
I attached a GPS device and a video camera to a shopping cart and traveled through Target. The animated drawing reflects the movements of the shopper in space. This is an excerpt of a larger piece.
Pictures may be displayed at the end of the video:
New York, NY 10003
Here is an example of what the animation of a single line will look like:
Traversing/Suburban: Target Drawing from Billy Friebele on Vimeo.
I attached a GPS device and a video camera to a shopping cart and traveled through Target. The animated drawing reflects the movements of the shopper in space. This is an excerpt of a larger piece.
Pictures may be displayed at the end of the video:
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