This LAND-ARTPROJECT and associated land-artproject.com website were conceived and designed by Jacalyn Lopez Garcia, a transmedia visual storyteller/photographer who curated the exhibition in collaboration with photographer Nicholas Caesar Colón and a select group of artists/poets/musicians. Jacalyn’s vision to create a collaborative interactive transmedia project began with a design for a land-artproject.com website that could be accessed from the installations at the museum. Like many of her interactive web-based projects, blurring the boundaries of museum walls is an integral aspect in Jacalyn’s transmedia artworks, whereby art patron’s are also encouraged to engage and contribute their own personal reflections on the project’s website blog.
BACK HISTORY
This project would not have been possible without an invitation from Martin Betz who was curating an exhibition for the Manhattan Beach Art Center. Martin invited Jacalyn to participate as a solo artist and/or to curate an entirely new body of work for the exhibition titled TERRA FIRMA: A commentary on the land. Thank you Martin for your role in bringing this project to life.
Excited about the invitation, Jacalyn reached out to encourage and invite Nicholas to join her in presenting a new body of work for the LAND-ARTPROJECT. To accomplish the goal of commenting on the impact of the San Andreas Fault on our land and lives, Nicholas focused on photographing areas specific to Northern California all the way down to Los Angeles while Jacalyn focused on photographing Southern California’s desert regions in Riverside County that includes the historical Salton Sea.
Both artists contributed interactive artworks for the exhibition, each requiring specific viewing requirements. Nicholas’ 3d stereograph photography require the use of vintage stereo viewers to experience this “lost” 3d art form and similar viewing requirements apply to Jacalyn’s anaglyphs and transmedia artworks embedded with QR codes. At the exhibition, vintage stereo viewers and 3d glasses are made available for use by the art patrons and the QR codes are accessible from personal devices such as a cell phone.
If you would like to see this project brought to a museum or gallery in your city simply contact Jacalyn. LAND-ARTPROJECT collaborators are excited about the possibilities of touring and expanding on the content and themes of this collaborative project.
COLLABORATIONS
The LAND-ARTPROJECT features six artists who were chosen by Jacalyn to collaborate with her and to add their own unique voice and artistic style in an effort to comment on the social and economic landscape of California’s earthquake country. Jacalyn chose these collaborators based on their talents and interest in offering a critical examination of how diverse artistic styles can independently and collaboratively serve to explore the project’s themes that focus on the impact of living on or near the San Andreas Fault located in Southern California. All artworks featured in this exhibition reveal some aspect of the collaborator’s life experience with an artistic point-of-view as Inland Empire residents who have lived or are living on or near the San Andres Fault.
Collaborator, Nicolas Caesar Colón, presents a series of interactive installations composed of 3d stereo photographs and vintage stereo viewers. Jacalyn’s photographic artworks feature anaglyphs and the integration of other traditional and non-traditional art forms used to create a body of work for use in her transmedia visual storytelling projects such as live performances, videos and music compositions. Nicholas and Jacalyn both explore integrating the use of technology with their interest in engaging audiences in the exploration of 3-dimension in a 2-dimensional space.
Other collaborator’s artworks include: a poem by Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, Laura Araujo S., Darren J. de Leon, Carlos Garcia, and David Gonzales. DJ Rex produced original digital compositions for use in Jacalyn’s transmedia interactive visual storytelling collaborations. In addition, project collaborators graciously offered live presentations at the opening reception. Sergio Pina assisted with the installation process. His artwork is included along with Georgia Kathleen Dakkis’ photography in Jacalyn’s interactive installation “Is Anybody Listening.”
PROJECT’S Cyber GALLERY
Featured on this website are examples of the transmedia visual storytelling collaborations and the stereographic installation. The transmedia interactive artworks are embedded with an underlying coded language for the intended purpose of providing a vehicle that can expand upon the interpretation of an art piece beyond the object’s first impression. Much like the stereographic installations by Nicholas, the interactive transmedia installations are also best experienced inside the museum or gallery space, The use of QR code technology makes it possible to enjoy the interactive transmedia projects in privacy, or at another time, if so desired.
Jacalyn’s installations demonstrate an artist’s approach at creating a space where both physical and digital worlds can be accessed simultaneously. Art patrons (in the museum space) interact with a scannable embedded Quick Response Code (referred to as QR Code). Once the code is scanned, using any media device that has a QR code reader, the art patron is immediately transported to this website where photographs, stories, poems, videos, musical compositions, and other documentations by the LAND-ARTPROJECT collaborators can be listened to and viewed.
ON THE HORIZON
Possibilities for touring this project are under consideration. Plans will include adding new content by the collaborators and this site will continue to feature blogger contributions.
Additional documented stories gathered from subsequent on-going interviews with local community members, business owners, and residents living on or near the fault line; including social media sources that will be added.
If you or someone you know has interest in bringing this project on a tour to your town, let us know.
