building

This is the temporary housing of projects associated with the art collective building. Nick Lally and I started building in January 2010 as part of our MFA Thesis works for the Digital Art and New Media program at UC Santa Cruz. This led to our *award winning* participatory installation building at DANM’s MFA Thesis Exhibition “Things That Are Possible” as well as many fun and productive weekly meetings.

The explanatory wall text from “Things That Are Possible” reads:
Building anything is a process. Building something good usually involves a lot of people’s ideas and labor. building is what we have called the people and the process of building something good in this building. Each Friday at 2pm, building gets together to talk, eat snacks, and make building. building builds on itself: last week’s building is this week’s built, but this week’s built is the place to build next week’s building. The interests of building include ghosts, software studies, coffee, walks in the woods, things that turn, critical spatial practice, the politics of representation, edge sites, flea markets, poesis, precarity, female-fronted punk bands of the 1970s and 1980s, and building. However, building interests are always building. The process of building results in traces of those interests. It also involves traces of the art/works of Nick and Kyle. All those traces are the building where you now stand. What will be building tomorrow?