beingthere.v2.r'dam.05

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r’dam.05 is an intra-disciplinary project about being there | by laurie halsey brown | surrounding a developing relationship to place and a psychological, experiential relationship to space | second project in the beingthere series looks at how architecture affects the identity of the city | interrelated responses take form simultaneously in private | public | virtual | physical locations | an integration of responses and [dis]locations: local/global/physical/virtual/private/public in relation to time [simultaniety] made visible in the public realm to [re]create an experience of being there | project launched via bus tour through city with an another aspect of project; an experimental documentary Localitiet en Identitiet on board bus |

PRIVATE/LOCAL: photos from simultaneity series

PUBLIC/LOCAL: public intervention of posters surrounding 10 locally built sites to facilitate dialogue on how locality affects the citys' identity

PHYSICAL/GLOBAL: poster is also a brochure distributed internationally

VIRTUAL/GLOBAL: welkom2r'dam
net.art work that creates the perception of a tourist site for visitors coming to Rotterdam: re-working the language, strategies and mechanisms common to these sites to ‘promote’ dialogue about architecture in relation to identity and locality in Rotterdam | the site addresses specific issues about Rotterdam architecture but creates a more universal awareness of how each of us experience architecture and how the identity of a city is created | users thoughts on the identity of their city can be sent to: welkom2rdam@hotmail.com and will be uploaded onto the site |programming was done in collaboration with ISIS Arts as part of a New Media Arts Commission | funded by Stimuleringsfonds Voor Architectuur |

05.01.06 Shareware Exhibition a project by ARCHIS + AMO + C-LAB
10.04-01.05 Variablemedia.org online residency as the site/project develops and during this process, questions or thoughts on how the viewer experiences architecture will be put onto the site and viewers can respond to these via this e-mail address: welkom2rdam@variablemedia.org.

LAURIE HALSEY BROWN: is an artist from New York presently based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands | she creates architecturally focused projects about being there that investigate place and a psychological, experiential relationship to space | these projects articulate a developing relationship to an environment through a set of intra-disciplinary responses shown simultaneously such as a net.art piece, an installation and a curated exhibition | her architecturally focused projects have been shown both in the U.S. including the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC and internationally | as an aspect of her intra-disciplinary practice, she has created numerous public interventions and media-based curatorial projects from 1997-2003 | 6 site-responsive installations and architectural interventions from 1999-2002 | 3 single-channel videos made between 1999-2003 have been screened at international festivals such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2004 and articulate psychological movements of time | her studio is: http://www.movinginplace.net| lhb@movinginplace.net