Skip to content

CIO and the Chevron Protest

This week Piggy and I participated in the Chevron Protest that took place at the Shareholder’s Meeting. Here’s more detail about the evil doings of Chevron truecostofchevron. It seemed like a good cause and as my good friend Winter puts it…it’s not really going to change the Shareholder’s mind but act as little pebbles in their shoe. We all know what Chevron’s about..but here are the results of the protest. Not quite as successful as L.E.A.P.‘s community organizing and action in Saba, Borneo – Malaysia. Where they were able to completely stop the development of a Coal Power Electricity Plant on one of the most diverse and pristine island coast of Malaysia – read more here. Cynthia Ong, who is the E.D. and President for L.E.A.P., presented her story the day after the Chevron protest at GFW. Having these two real experiences juxtapositioned back to back, I concluded that the reason why Cynthia’s efforts were more so successful was because she positioned herself in the middle of dignitaries, P.M.’s and governmental types where “face” and much needed re-election for office is crucial. Unfortunately, when you present a devastating situation (like Emem Okon, Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre – Nigeria) to a room full of Shareholder’s whose ONLY interest is to make money..you know what the results will be. Sigh….here are some pictures from the protest


in:

Art, CIO, CIO, Events, Projects

Random Projections in the City

Here’s some documentation of driving around and trying to find walls…needed to test drive the new generator we got for our Mobile Projection Unit..we’ve pretty much got all the equipment and we’re ready to ROLL (a Honda super duper quiet generator and a whopping NEC 4100 projector (6500 lumens) with a short throw lens!)

[FLOWPLAYER=http://www.e-b-x.com/cosas/wp-content/video/guerilla_doc.m4v,600,426]

 

in:

Art, Luggage Store Mobile Projection Unit, Luggage Store Projection Series, Luggage Store Projections, projections, Projects

Launch of LS’s Mobile Projection Unit

For over 10months Paz, Jorge and I have been meeting about this crazy silly project where we’d project on buildings guerilla style – an idea I’ve had since 2003. For the longest time I had the desire to do “Ephemeral Graffiti” – where i’d bomb/tag buildings around the city with projections. Yes I know very krzysztof wodiczko and not new – but the difference would be that these ‘tags’ would occur randomly throughout the city, with no fanfare or announcements.

Bring it to present day…after being inspired by the Luggage Store’s mezzanine level window to do projections and Darryl and Laurie inviting CIO to use that space for projections – I’m in the midst of actuating everything that I’ve always wanted to do in the public arena. In conjunction with our planning stages, the mid-market section was getting a major make-over with the SF Arts Commission and many other orgs supporting this. Most importantly the Luggage Store is part of this make-over which led to Luggage Store’s Projection Series. They had asked me to help get this off the ground – going in willy nilly and super giddy I gladly took the reigns. Have to thank Darryl and Laurie for trusting me on this. I’m looking forward to making this burgeoning project a fruitful one! And although there will be some announcements for a few projects…there may not be for others so…watch out for a projection near you!

Here’s the information on this particular program.

Luggage Store’s Projection Series:
Mobile Projection Unit: Program ONE
When: Thursday May 5th 8-10pm (First Thursday)
Where: Eddy Street (between Hyde and Leavenworth)

On Thursday, May 5, 2011 The Luggage Store will launch its Mobile Projection Unit with an evening of large-scale videos presented directly within the cityscape, illuminating the Eddy St. corridor (between Hyde and Leavenworth). Program ONE will feature the works of Jorge Bachmann, Paz de la Calzada, Eliza Barrios, Jessica Resmond, Kadet Khune, MEI collectiv and Camilo Tarabay with a range of stop motion, animation, and computer generated graphics.

The Mobile Projection Unit (part of the Luggage Store’s Projection Series) offers public audiences from all walks of life the experience of thoughtful, engaging, and/or inspiring contemporary art for free, providing an unexpected and refreshing alternative to the corporate messaging that saturates our public space. The program is funded in part by the San Francisco Arts Commission. Here’s more documentation thanks to Jorge Bachmann (MEI collectiv).

[FLOWPLAYER=http://www.e-b-x.com/cosas/wp-content/video/sustain_doc.m4v,270,480]

in:

Art, Luggage Store Mobile Projection Unit, Luggage Store Projection Series, Luggage Store Projections, projections, Projects

Chatsilog..

Finally – a nice little view (imagine four monitors in the formation of a cross)

Chatsilog – Final from Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. on Vimeo.

For “The Ephemera of Disposable Goods” series, Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. and Carlos Villa offer the delights of CHATSILOG, a reflection on the desire to connect across distance and time zones, a meditation on the shortcomings of digitally-dependent communication and the false sense of security it provides, and an effort at long-distance collaboration between 4 artists inhabiting 4 different places in the world, with the goal of producing a remote project in a 5th location.

Carlos Villa is an artist and professor at the San Francisco Art Institute. A contemporary of, and much like, Manila’s own cultural treasure Roberto Chabet, Carlos Villa has mentored and encouraged numerous California artists over the years, all while continuing his own art practice. He brought the 3 members of Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. together for a research project in 1994, and things
have never been the same since.

Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. (Eliza “Neneng” Barrios, Reanne “Immaculata” Estrada, Jenifer “Baby” Wofford) inevitably formed into something of a three-headed monster, and have been collaborating on performative photos, videos, installations and public spectacles ever since. Since 2003 however, they’ve been increasingly hampered by time-space considerations, with one member or another
either living out of immediate reach of the others.

The challenge of this collaboration is not a simple one. The artists reside in disparate places (Prague, Los Angeles, two different neighborhoods in San Francisco) and are tasked with creating a project for Green Papaya Art Projects in Manila. Technology comes to the rescue: laptops with built-in cameras, high-speed internet, iChat. But it turns out that technology isn’t perfect. And neither are they. So they make do.

CHATSILOG is a bittersweet, comedic attempt to cohere fragmented interactions into an illusory, temporary space that, for the duration of the project, the artists can share and jointly occupy. M.O.B.’s participation in “The Ephemera of Disposable Goods” series marks the group’s first exhibition in Manila.

in:

Art, Green Papaya, M.O.B., Projects