URBAN ARTSCAPE
Urban Artscape – Furesø: Dansk Version
Urban Artscape - Furesø
[ support and permission passed by Furesø
Municipality 8 march 2007 ]
Kulturpladsen in Farum - Kulturtorvet in Værløse.
Artist Jan Hatt-Olsen
There will from
There will be a dialogue between the artist
There will be a close contact with the head of the Culture House in
Værløse Galaksen Morten Mortensen and the head of the library in Værløse in
connection with the establishment of urban artscapes at Kulturtorvet in
Værløse.
There will be contact with the juridical advisor in
Background - Concept and Sketch of Urban Artscape – Furesø.
During the 2005 biennial ’City Living - Living City The 6’th European
Biennial for Towns and Town Planners’ as a part of the street creativity
session, created ’The Cinescape Street Creativity Charter’ which is a charter
for street creativity in Europe. The Charter was presented at the biennials
last day and discussed in plenum with Jan Christiansen, City Architect in
The Cinescape; Making the borders soft and
Fuzzy, Street Creativity Charter is attached to this
document.
I wish to in cooperation with Furesø Municipality to work with the
concept presented in the charter and use it to create a close connection
between the to main towns in Furesø Municipality Værløse and Farum more
precisely a central square in each town. The two squares are Kulturpladsen in
Farum and Kulturtorvet in Værløse.
Each of the two squares has a culture house connected to it. Our project
will have as starting point the culture house and the squares and the nearby
streets.
There will be sound and light installations, controlled by a community
website connected to Kulturtorvet in Værløse and a community website connected
to Kulturpladsen in Farum.
When the installation starts poet/artist
The material on the
web-portal will be projected out on the squares with video projectors and
played with transducers placed behind windows glass surfaces and coming up from
the underground (placed under manhole covers)
An idea could be to project and play MultimediePoetry from FilmPlatform www.filmplatform.dk/mpoesi.html at the start of the installation.
The two squares will be video filmed and projected upon each other by
video cameras placed behind window glass (to avoid vandalism) and recorded
through direction oriented microphones. In other words the two squares will be
present in each other. When you are at one of the squares you can see and hear
a reflection of the other square. You can see and here a reflection of people,
music, pictures and poems there is present at the other square. If you want to
take a bike, car or train to the other square, to fully be a part of the other
square, it’s easy to do it. Downtown Værløse and Downtown Farum are only
Through the web-portal it will be open for people to add material
through their activities on the squares, through the use of video cameras and
microphones there have been placed or by uploading materials to the community
web-sites by mobil phones ( sms, mms etc.) , lab tops, computers in the nearby libraries.
Urban Artscape is pictures, poems, songs, sounds, texts installed in
urban space. Light and sound installations working together with the rest of
the urban space. Urban Artscape is the whole urban space and everyone is a part
of it and develops it through the way they use the urban space.
By the help of mailing lists people in different parts of
People can be in the urban space, in the artscapes at the two squares
when they get ideas and upload material, but they can also be in their private
space and use their home computer to cross the borders from their private homes
to the public urban space.
The local people and people who get in contact with the area decide how
the installation will develop, with the degree of restrictions and control
there always will be in a public space.
Every password will be individually tagged, to every password will there
be connected a name and an address. If there have been a non acceptable
behavior associated with the use of a specific password, this password will be
blocked. Through a close contact with the juridical advisor for Furesø
Minicipality
To fuse the virtual reality in the internet and the outer reality in
urban space is new, to create a semi permanent augmented reality in this way is
new. Urban Artscape is among the first project of what the IT world is calling
web 2,0.
In other words Urban Artscape create communication and contact across
borders; between the private and the public space, between the virtual and
physical outer reality and between the different cultures there is at Kulturpladsen
in Farum and Kulturtorvet in Værløse.
The installation will be semi permanent (two month ) Its important that
the installation stretch over some time, because an important element in the
concept is the social aspect, how the cultural codes in daily life in an urban
artscape changes and develop.
Before the start of the installation there will be created a community
group of citizens connected to Kulturtorvet in Værløse and a community group
connected to Kulturpladsen in Farum. They will discuss the new possibilities
for use of public urban space, which emerge as a result of Urban Artscape -
Furesø. Later the two community groups will function as editors for the two
community web-sites.
Urban Artscape – Furesø will have to phases.
Phase 1. 2007. November 1 – 2007 December 19.
The community groups discuss the new possibilities in an augmented urban
space (ever citizen can join). In that period from November 19 – December 17
there will be given an example of how to use these new possibilities in an augmented
urban space. This will be curated by the poet/artist Jan Hatt-Olsen in
cooperation with the culture houses, libraries, the culture department in
In other words there will be established a culture for how to interact,
limits and possibilities in Urban Artscape – Furesø. This is however not a
static culture but only a starting point for the culture/cultures connected to
Urban Artscape – Furesø.
Phase 2. 2008 January 8 – 2008
January 31.
The community groups decide for themselves how Urban Artscape – Furesø
shall be used and developed, how the cultural codes for living in the augmented
reality shall bee.
There will be some control from the authorities during the whole period,
not more or less than what is the situation in any urban space in
Urban Artscape – Furesø is a work of art, which in its essence is a
cross-over between urban planning and urban space and street art
It will be a project which to a high degree involves the children the
young, the creative class and different ethnical groups because fascination of
IT and activity in the virtual space gives them a common ground.
In this case the common ground will be extended to everyone, when we
move in an augmented reality in open public spaces, which is placed in the
outer physical urban reality. People who don’t have any connection whatsoever
with IT and the virtual world will still experience the installation as a
fascinating kind of magic realistic world, ready to be discovered.
It will be a work of art in which there will be a other works of art a collage
in urban space in flux.
Established artist will be brought together with less established,
underground, avant-garde and every kind of creative people.
It will open op for a cooperation of art, culture, business, the
municipality.
Urban Artscape will not control what will happen. Urban Artscape will
only create a start and a infrastructure for a new kind of creative, an
augmented reality in urban space, and at the same time be that reality.
In phase 1 there will be a suggestion a start of that reality, but in
phase two it will be re-enchanted urban places, not form outside controlled
urban spaces.
It will be an Inbetween Zone, between the virtual reality and physical
reality, between the imagination and the outer reality, between private space
and public space, between the extraordinary urban experience and the daily
life. I will be a Chôra, Plato’s space in between the word of senses and the
word of ideas. The space there is the space of creation where every thing is in
the making and in the destruction, where everything is in flux.
In Urban Artscape – Furesø every border will be soft and fuzzy, the
material of creation light, sound and imagination. After the inbetween zone is
passed the urban spaces will be precisely as they were before. But maybe not,
maybe there will be a change of perception of urban spaces will have been made
into urban places, and maybe the semi permanent infrastructure established to
facilitate an inbetween zone in urban space, will be made permanent. Urban
spaces will have been made into urban places, augmented, re-enchanted.
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