Part of the CrazyMaking Project
What is the CrazyMaking / Q.Public project doing out there in the world?
“I feel strongly that the role of the artist in a shrinking and increasingly market-driven world is to take wildly disparate ideas and phenomena and combine them in novel and compelling arrangements, to show in a sense that everything has its place, everything is in communication with all of the other pieces.” Erling Hope in interview with Grace Jackson for the Vision Lab Collective.
Clive Thompson writes insightfully about digital culture for the NYTimes, Wired, etc., and in his own Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World. He recently wrote this treatment of my project on his Medium page (scroll down to item five in the link).
Vision Lab Collective hosted and cultivated the CrazyMaking and Q.Public process throughout the COVID lockdown year. Its many participants provided important feedback and its founder Kythe Heller shared wise counsel.
The Vector Arts Initiative invited me to exhibit the first visual expressions of this project in their 2021 “On the Consequences of Hate Speech” show. Below, an interview
Almond Restaurant hosted a gathering in April 2017 featuring some early contours of the project.