No Places With Names: A Critical Acoustic Archaeology, 2012
By Teri Rueb & Larry Phan
with contributions from Carmelita Topaha
with contributions from Carmelita Topaha
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In September 2012, ISEA 2012 and the Santa Fe Art Institute presented: No Places With Names: A Critical Acoustic Archaeology. Drawing visitors out into the landscapes surrounding the campus of the Institute for American Indian Art in Santa Fe, this GPS-based sound walk and sculpture installation explores the concept of wilderness and its shifting meanings across cultural contexts.
The sound walk premiered at ISEA 2012 and is available as a mobile app available for free download, making the work accessible in perpetuity. To download the iPhone/iPad app from the app store, search "no places with names". iPhone App: Version 1.2 RELEASED 9.22.12. Android app version to be released: 2013 Note: We are delighted to announce that the IAIA AT Equipment Checkout Room has generously agreed to extend the period during which devices will be loaned to the general public. 11 devices are available for loan from the AT Equipment Checkout Room located in the Library Building (see #5) of the IAIA. Hours Monday and Wednesday 1-6pm, Tuesday and Thursday 9-3pm, FRI 1-5pm. Why Wilderness? Wilderness as an idea has traditionally fueled colonial, spiritual and environmentalist agendas in the United States. Like the notion of the "pastoral" elaborated by Leo Marx in his famous book "The Machine in the Garden," the concept of wilderness has seen significant transformations through time, often in response to population growth, development and technological change. No Places With Names ask the question, "What is the significance of wilderness today and how has it exceeded its past associations with romantic ideals?" Born of a nine-month collaboration on-site in the landscapes of New Mexico, the project seeks to reveal diverse attitudes and perceptions of wilderness as reflected in the mix of cultures that define the contemporary American Southwest. A site-specific sound walk and sculpture installation designed for the landscapes surrounding the Institute of American Indian Art is accompanied by a "visitor center" presented at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Twin presentations offer a counterpoint of experience and representation, action and contemplation, open and enclosed space, the physical and the virtual, and the audible and the visible. In each different mode, the work is meant to invite critical reflection upon the complex, and often conflicting, meanings of wilderness as place, idea, experience and cipher for revealing contemporary entanglements of nature and culture. Did you experience the piece? Please send us some feedback! Related Mapping Links: Atlas of Historic New Mexico Maps Historical Maps of New Mexico Palace of the Governors Statehood Maps Perry Castenada Library Maps Dan Collins/ Flooding Phoenix New Mexico Broadband Map |
Download iPhone/iPad/Android app from app store.
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SFAI/ISEA Residency UB Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo The New Mexican/ Pasatiempo Magazine Albuquerque/ Santa Fe Journal Sponsors: Santa Fe Art Institute ISEA2012 Institute for American Indian Art UB Department of Media Study UB Digital Humanities Initiative Collaborators: Teri Rueb is an artist whose work engages digital, architectural and traditional media and modes of production. Rueb has pioneered the form of GPS-based interactive installations and is the recipient of numerous grants and commissions from international institutions including the Edith Russ Site for New Media, The Banff Center for the Arts, the Boston ICA, Artslink, Turbulence.org, and various State Arts Councils. She has lectured and presented her work worldwide at venues including Ars Electronica, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, Transmediale, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma Museum, and IRCAM. She recently completed her doctoral degree at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where her research addressed constructions of landscape and subjectivity in mobile network culture. Rueb is a Professor of Media Study at the Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo (State University of New York) Carmelita Topaha (Dine) is a member of the Navajo Nation, Newcomb Chapter. She has worked as a consulting anthropologist, archaeologist, or ethnographer on a variety of projects, including a decade-long cross-cultural inquiry into landscape and language. She is a weaver, potter, and a writer and teaches courses at San Juan College. Credits: Mobile app development: Tom Stoll, Kitefish Labs Inc. Sound design: Michael Bouquard Photo Credits: Dianne Stromberg (top middle image), Courtney Chrisler | ||
Sound Walk/IAIA
Visitor Center/SFAI
Erosion (2013)
Mobile App
Acknowledgements
The artists wish to thank the many people who contributed interviews to this project: Giday Woldegabriel, Ryan Rice, Linda S. Cordell, Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Phillip Tuwaletstiwa, Lucy Lippard, Bill Gilbert, Estevan Arellano, Dody Fugate, Tom Antonio, Luke Reed, Clorinda Romero, Peter Del Tredici, Roberto Valdez, Vince Tidwell, Sarrah Kubinec, Ryan Flahive, Celina Garcia, Loren Cita Taylor, Grace Berge, Heidi Brandow, Abra Ann Nungasak Stolte-Patkotak, Leena Minifie, Brian Fleetwood, Tom St. Blaise, Shannah Serawop, Keith Secola, McKeon Dempsey, Daryl Lucero, Jamison Chas Banks, and Joanne Morales. Special thanks to the entire staff at the Santa Fe Art Institute (especially Diane Karp and Katie Avery), the faculty, staff and students at the IAIA (especially Ethan Bach, Mats Reinussen, Heidi Brandow and Annie McDonnell), the University at Buffalo Digital Humanities Initiative and the Department of Media Study (especially Roy Roussel), Cathy Kosak, Frances Fischer, Dianne Stromberg, Richard Lowenberg, Judy and Phillip Tuwaletstiwa and Robert and Judith Rueb. This project would not have been possible without the early support and encouragement of David Mark, David Stea, Celina Garcia, John Ganter, Scott Freundschuh and Ryan Rice. Thank you.
The artists wish to thank the many people who contributed interviews to this project: Giday Woldegabriel, Ryan Rice, Linda S. Cordell, Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Phillip Tuwaletstiwa, Lucy Lippard, Bill Gilbert, Estevan Arellano, Dody Fugate, Tom Antonio, Luke Reed, Clorinda Romero, Peter Del Tredici, Roberto Valdez, Vince Tidwell, Sarrah Kubinec, Ryan Flahive, Celina Garcia, Loren Cita Taylor, Grace Berge, Heidi Brandow, Abra Ann Nungasak Stolte-Patkotak, Leena Minifie, Brian Fleetwood, Tom St. Blaise, Shannah Serawop, Keith Secola, McKeon Dempsey, Daryl Lucero, Jamison Chas Banks, and Joanne Morales. Special thanks to the entire staff at the Santa Fe Art Institute (especially Diane Karp and Katie Avery), the faculty, staff and students at the IAIA (especially Ethan Bach, Mats Reinussen, Heidi Brandow and Annie McDonnell), the University at Buffalo Digital Humanities Initiative and the Department of Media Study (especially Roy Roussel), Cathy Kosak, Frances Fischer, Dianne Stromberg, Richard Lowenberg, Judy and Phillip Tuwaletstiwa and Robert and Judith Rueb. This project would not have been possible without the early support and encouragement of David Mark, David Stea, Celina Garcia, John Ganter, Scott Freundschuh and Ryan Rice. Thank you.
Santa Fe Art Institute | ISEA 2012 Artist Residency | © Teri Rueb and Larry Phan 2012
