Version

About "Version: prototypical lab" project, proposal, ideas and documentation.

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To Dominique

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From: lahaag <info@lahaag.org>
Subject: Re: research paper
Date: 26 Aug 2011 14:17:58 GMT+02:00
To: dom <domleroy2@free.fr>

Hey Dom,

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I'm still working on new windmills and devices, dealing with the same concepts as the old ATKN1 project: energy, art, communication, poetics, … Part of this development is happening now for OKNO and the TIK2 project. Together with others, I'm developing wind clocks, which are to be put anywhere around the world and get connected to generate a new standard of time, the TIK time, wind time. Anyways that's the concept. It's very much related to what I was doing with the ATKN project. That's probably also the reason why they asked me to participate.

One of the issues, that arose again during the TIK project, is how to present this research or development to the public. A lot of it is tinkering and playing around. Ideas get put down on wiki's, are explored in small models during workshops. There's lots of ideas formulated and concepts made. All very experimental. A lot of threads come out of this research, but not all, lead to something. But that doesn't make them less interesting, tough. They are part of the process. But how to make this process interesting for the public. The public being this collective of people who look at your work with different interests : people expecting to see a work of art, participants in a workshop, other artists looking for information, people interested in the technical aspects, … 

On the other side there is the artist, me. I want to share my work with my public, and am concerned how to do this.  My work being in progress, under development, in the state it currently is. Normally as an artists you don't show all the intermittent stages of the development of your artwork. You show the end result. But what if this processes is what you are really interested in? 

At the same time I was thinking about my own position as an artist, what to do with my organization, my space and so on. As I'm no longer involved in a collective, being no longer part of OKNO, and not setting up code31 meetings, much resolves about my individual art practice.  How to get people involved, to participate, to relate my work to, get the necessary feedback, for inspiration and energy, … I mean, I have always functioned within collectives, and collaboration is essential in my work. How to open it up again?

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Taken from a project proposal written to Dominique Leroy from Ecos3, following my residence In march 2011.

Version

Version builds upon Openstructures, a project which explores the possibilities of a modular construction model based upon a geometric grid. This model provides a shared framework for tinkering, prototyping and experimenting. It's a collaborative model where everyone contributes with parts, components and structures. At the same time it can literally be the platform or the space within which all this experimenting can take place.

Version functions as a prototypical lab, using the Openstructures model to enable a working process in which sharing and experimenting are key elements. While maintaining great openness towards a divers public of participating artists, involve A broad public within the process of creative process Making work in progress in a sort of open context lab

engage attract Small labs are installed onto locations

Artistic research which in the process of the artistic research maintains a big sense of while maintaining a bis sense of openness.

Idea is to use this model to make small mobile labs which are t is both work and workspace. I can built my projects using this modular construction model and at the same time built structures within which to show my work. In this sense the work would be the workspace.

Version is in the first place a research into working process methodology. It's name refers to version control systems. is the management of changes to documents, programs, and other information stored as computer files.

windmill construction, urban gardening, Starting from a small mobile base, designed to be placed

Within this structures I can built my experiments, explore my ideas. The structure can expand and grow according to development. At the same I can invite others to participate to work within the structure.

At the same time it offers the ability to build structures in which all this experimenting can take place. It can be literally be the platform or the space within which …

It's like a computer programmers agreeing on using java or for a certain project.