UW Art: Sculptures – Diane Braga, Katie Gatenby, Ruth Van Gurp

Stemming off from our postcard project, our podcast is the next step in our campaign to raise awareness about the University’s lack of initiative to replace or conserve damaged artworks, or to add to its meager collection.

Our podcast is broken up into six smaller audio files plus an introduction, each featuring a different work of public sculpture around the University of Waterloo’s campus (the most prevalent and public form of campus art). Individually, each clip elaborates on the history and evolving story of the piece, as well as gives insight into efforts (or absences of effort) towards conservation. As a whole, they form a guided tour around the campus.

There are a number of ways that people can explore our podcast. People may join our group on facebook and _listen to the files there__, or visit our entry page on myspace. Both of these websites are popular social networking tools

Via _wordpress? myspace?_ people may download our files as mp3s and upload them to their own personal mp3 players, music phones, etc. so that they may experience the podcast as an actual guided walking tour, and see the artwork—or absence thereof.

Also could send recordings of our podcast on CDs to faculty members

How Successful?1) Introduction2) Joy

3) Convolution

4) The Boar

5) The Walking Girl

6) David of Sassoun

7) Break/ Conclusion

The search for History

   At first I had three main ideas for the storycubes regarding sharing my view of waterloo.  I first came up with the idea of taking pictures that illustrated a typical day for me.  But instead I wanted to illustrate or more so educate students of the history of the University of Waterloo.  My intentions were to pick 6 buildings whose names were of the funders or founders of the university.  I believe that we don’t really get to actually learn where this university came from and who had supported it.  My search was to find out something I didn’t know.  To be honest, I do walk by those glass displays which features the most prominent founders without actually taking the time to read any of it.  Naturally I just assumed who they were.  

The storycube has six pictures of the Buildings all labeled with its names while there are facts inside the box.  The written information is going the same direction as the horizontal of every picture.  I purposely did not line up the pictures to direct the viewer to go a specific direction to correspond to the idea that the university is one rotating circle. one world within the world.  It starts off with Hagey Hall ending at Coutts building.  I included brief facts including information about the individual to their interests.  I was specifically interested in finding facts that were arts related.  I wanted to connect the interests of these individuals with ours, to highlight our fine arts department. I also wanted to find facts that personified these individuals to bring about an appreciation for not only the buildings but especially the individuals, because without them, who knows where we would be at this moment.

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