Collaborative Anarchaeologies of the City
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About : an introduction to drumming.
Published March 2008
Todd Williams (AKA Brass) is a renowned hip-hop MC and is also a youth worker. He created this e-Book to introduce drumming, after experimenting with the Generator during the workshop. As ‘Brass’, he has performed alongside Sydney veterans SERECK of DEF WISH CAST and SINUS of band 1, 2 SEPPUKU, in the highly flammable hardcore act CELSIUS. He has released three albums.
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About : This eBook is by Tina Tran, a ‘creative explorer’ and member of the Popperbox artist collective.
As part of the Lattice::Sydney project a simple Sketchbook was produced to explore the projects and ideas being generated in the workshop. It was created on the Generator and printed out so that it would be filled in by hand - with space to write, draw, glue and attach. The resulting books are scanned in and remade into eBooks to be shared and distributed.
Lattice::Sydney aims to explore new approaches to creatively transforming our cities and included a workshop with a diverse group of artists and cultural leaders to produce new ideas, perspectives and plans of action. Lattice is part of Proboscis’ larger Lattice East Asia exploring the ways diverse communities engage with their environment and issues of cities and sustainability; viewing the city through the eyes of those who live in it. Lattice is part of the British Council’s “Creative Cities” - a three year cultural and artistic partnership between East Asia and the UK.
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About : This eBook is by Tak Tran, a member of the Popperbox artist collective, working mainly on the technical side of things. He builds gadgets for art projects, websites and anything else that needs engineering.
As part of the Lattice::Sydney project a simple Sketchbook was produced to explore the projects and ideas being generated in the workshop. It was created on the Generator and printed out so that it would be filled in by hand - with space to write, draw, glue and attach. The resulting books are scanned in and remade into eBooks to be shared and distributed.
Lattice::Sydney aims to explore new approaches to creatively transforming our cities and included a workshop with a diverse group of artists and cultural leaders to produce new ideas, perspectives and plans of action. Lattice is part of Proboscis’ larger Lattice East Asia exploring the ways diverse communities engage with their environment and issues of cities and sustainability; viewing the city through the eyes of those who live in it. Lattice is part of the British Council’s “Creative Cities” - a three year cultural and artistic partnership between East Asia and the UK.
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As part of Lattice::Sydney a simple Sketchbook was produced to explore the projects and ideas being generated in the workshop. It was created on the Generator and printed out so that it would be filled in by hand - with space to write, draw, glue and attach. The resulting books are scanned in and remade into eBooks to be shared and distributed.
About : This eBook is by Matt Huynh, Sydney based comic creator and illustrator. Huynh’s graphic novels span a diverse variety of genres from surrealist fantasy to polemical essays, dramas and autobiography. His comics work has received recognition from Ledger Award for Excellence in Australian Comic Arts and Publishing, the Australian Cartoonist’s Association, ABC and Sydney Morning Herald. His inky, energetic brushwork has appeared on magazines and prints to clothing, accessories, health resources, tattoos, film, performance projections, vinyl toys and dolls. When he’s not at the drawing table, he can be found conducting instructional workshops, public presentations, exhibitions and live art demonstrations. He’s been known to operate under the pseudonym ‘STiKMAN’, having taken a bad high-school nickname to heart.
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Orlagh and Alice created an eSketchbook for participants to draw/write in and use during in the project to gather and distribute some of the ideas that were brought to and developed during the project.
About : This eBook is by Artist David Capra. David Capra is a visual artist and sculptor, who recently returned from a year-long excursion around Europe where he received the Piemontese del Mondo Arts Award sponsored by the region of Piedmont, Italy. He has also been a finalist in the Qantas Spirit of Youth Award both in 2006 and 2007. In 2006 he was named one of Australia’s top 25 young artists by Art and Australia.
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About : An eBook for the Lattice Forum (07/03/2008), a day event exploring issues of cities and sustainability arising from Lattice: Collaborative Anarchaeologies of the City. It looked at the workshop’s achievements, discussed the ways culturally diverse communities engage with their environment and considered issues of creative cities and sustainability. Proboscis spent three weeks in Western Sydney working with ICE (Information and Cultural Exchange) hosting a collaborative workshop and exchange labs with Western Sydney artists/ cultural producers and Thai community architect Kasama Yamtree.
Published March 2008
Lattice::Sydney participants include: David Capra, Ali Kadhim, Sanez Fatouhi and Amin Palagni, Ben Hoh, Tiffany Lee-Shoy, Fatima Mawas, Ben Nitiva, Matt Huynh, Tak Tran and Tina Tran of Popperbox, Denis Asif Sado, Trey Thomas, Maria Tran, Todd Williams and Kasama Yamtree.
How to find out what they want
Todd, Ploy and myself created this eBook yesterday based on the brain bubbling topic, “How to find out what they want.” Rather than being a polemical piece or an essay-style study of the topic and techniques used “to find out what they want”, this is a near verbatim transcript of a conversation between ourselves about our immediate and long term goals.
My personal favorite aspects of this work are how casual and quick it reads, so hopefully people are more receptive to reading it than something instructive or formal. It might come across as lightweight at moments (which possibly puts it in danger of being dismissed) but our awareness of the conversation’s recording comes across in the eBook, especially at the beginning when we were finding a way to get the conversation going and at the end when we tried to wrap it all up.
The opportunity for discerning readers to identify when we’re being more genuine or self-conscious of what we’re saying is a commentary on the (in)effectiveness of “finding out what people want” when information is gathered -
(cf. census info, statistical data, vox pox, phone surveys, door-to-door, random sampling, anonymous commentary, etc.)
Download the eBook today, it’s a modern classic!