Desert Die
The "Desert Die" sculptural way-finding device is almost for the ready! This beautiful sculpture is a combination of a book and way-finding device. It has an audio component, with text written by Jared Stanley. The device was designed and fabricated by Matthew Hebert. I designed the illustrative panels. Go cnc/craft!
You can find it as of March 6 at the Wonder Valley location of Mapping the Desert/Deserting the Map
The Desert Die is an interactive sculptural way-finding device that interrogates how language mediates landscape. The Desert Die subverts the notion of stationary wayside interpretive literature, and instead uses the visual and verbal vocabulary of interpretive literature against its original intention to orient the spectator within the landscape. In typical wayside literature, the marker formalizes the viewer's experience into a one-point perspective; in The Desert Die we add an additional five perspectives on any given point; in this way, we investigate how an object can limit and manipulate experience in the landscape. The piece is a six-sided die, approximately 1' square in size, and rests on a pedestal. The die is constructed of steel, with milled aluminum placards bolted to each side. Each placard features an engraving of an imaginary element of a desert landscape. Each time the die is "rolled," a switch within the die will trigger an audio recording of a poetic/interpretive text describing an imaginary site, and not necessarily the site in which the Desert Die is located. The project is collaboration between Jared Stanley, Gabie Strong, and Matthew Hebert. The Desert Die will be installed temporarily in the Wonder Valley area on March 6 as part of the greater Mapping the Desert event.
Here's a sneak of the panel drawings.
You can find it as of March 6 at the Wonder Valley location of Mapping the Desert/Deserting the Map
The Desert Die is an interactive sculptural way-finding device that interrogates how language mediates landscape. The Desert Die subverts the notion of stationary wayside interpretive literature, and instead uses the visual and verbal vocabulary of interpretive literature against its original intention to orient the spectator within the landscape. In typical wayside literature, the marker formalizes the viewer's experience into a one-point perspective; in The Desert Die we add an additional five perspectives on any given point; in this way, we investigate how an object can limit and manipulate experience in the landscape. The piece is a six-sided die, approximately 1' square in size, and rests on a pedestal. The die is constructed of steel, with milled aluminum placards bolted to each side. Each placard features an engraving of an imaginary element of a desert landscape. Each time the die is "rolled," a switch within the die will trigger an audio recording of a poetic/interpretive text describing an imaginary site, and not necessarily the site in which the Desert Die is located. The project is collaboration between Jared Stanley, Gabie Strong, and Matthew Hebert. The Desert Die will be installed temporarily in the Wonder Valley area on March 6 as part of the greater Mapping the Desert event.
Here's a sneak of the panel drawings.
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posted by ---- at Thursday, February 25, 2010
