exercise #1

3 days, 1-2 hours per day

first day: find a public space that interests you. bring a recording device and define what the recordings mean to you.

how does our ability to locate ourselves in a space define who we are?

3rd day: interact in some way with your space. interview a subject, or take part in some interaction that integrates you into the environment.

purpose: this exercise teaches an essential process of documenting an enviroment: first observe, record, and finally interact.

Due second week of class.

detritus
Loose fragments or grains that have been worn away from rock.
Disintegrated or eroded matter: the detritus of past civilizations.
Accumulated material; debris: “Poems, engravings, press releaseshe eagerly scrutinizes the detritus of fame” (Carlin Romano).

archaic matter; debris; other objects of note.