| Topic: Symphony of a City |
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today's panel went very well. a lot of interesting and informative information was discussed. thanks to all who participated and viewed the soac installation at umass boston. |
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Re-posting from original Bulletin Board. Thursday, May 3, 2001 - 12:22 pm: What an innovative and visionary project this is! Seeing the four different lives on Friday the 27th made me wonder how much the city is like a plate of spaghetti, with all of the different lives in it more or less going on side by side, in the same place, but not connecting very much. None of the people wearing cameras last time seemed to meet one another, and probably don't in their lives on other days either. What holds us together, then? What holds the city together? Are people, at the least, aware of one another, acknowledging the incredible variety of others they share their urban home with? Or do we all have a worm's eye view? When we lead our individual lives, like those wearing the cameras, do we seem to care enough about others, those we can't even see, in what we do? Posted by: Tim on September 26, 2002 10:19 AM |
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Re-posting from original Bulletin Board. May 3, 2001 - 12:31 pm: A really striking thing about the video views of the lives of the camwearers comes from the fact that the camera was not focused on the protagonist, the "star," but instead on that person's surrounding community, and especially their interlocutors--everyone they were talking to and the people also who were talking wtih them. One thing that could be noticed was that we really do a lot of listening to one another, and offer other kinds of support and sometimes just simple "presence" for one another. After all, every time someone speaks, it's not just the person and their speaking that's important, but that someone makes their words real by listening to them. There's usually a relationship involved! The view of the city, or of the social world we all inhabit, that SYMPHONY OF A CITY gives is a much more social one, less individual-oriented, than I am used to seeing. It's more real about what makes a city, or any kind of community for that matter. It allows us to see that people do live in the context of all kinds of other people, with whom they have relationships of different kinds. It also is neat in showing all the urban space that surrounds us when we are in the city. We live in a place after all, not just in our heads! Posted by: Tiago on September 26, 2002 10:22 AM |
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Re-posting from original Bulletin Board. Thursday, May 3, 2001 - 12:34 pm: was so surprised when at City Hall on April 27th, and watching the streaming video, to see how much of the space around the people is taken up with streets--all that concrete in long strips going on and on (especially when people were driving) was amazing! Not much grass to be seen... Posted by: Clovis on September 26, 2002 10:23 AM |
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