Collaboration
All the elements of Project Cabrini Green were created together with and by the students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). As an artist and educator I believe in creative collaborative exchange between faculty and students. I have collaborated in the past with my students on a number of public art projects, usually bringing the tools and the technical knowledge through educational process into a creative dialog. With Project Cabrini Green I reached out to my students because of their knowledge of different media and tools and with the help of fellow faculty members gathered groups of students that developed and created each of the Project’s elements in a faculty supervised educational process.
The Department of Art and Technology Studies was a unique resource of knowledge and equipment and its faculty, staff and students developed, designed and assembled the six weeks long lasting LED kits. The sound group developed a computer tool to translate a spoken word into a blinking light, later used during the workshops to record the performing youth and to generate the code for the LED kits. The workshops were co-facilitated by students from seven different SAIC departments who delivered the content and gave personal guidance to the youth participants (see Workshops page). A group of students created this web platform to allow access to the audio and textual content of the project as well as to the documentation and the live video feed. Two students from Visual Communication designed and produced a book of the texts and poems written by the youth participants. They also created the project’s logo. When the Project partnered with the Museum of Contemporary Art, group of students from the SAIC Live Media class, joined by two faculty, created a unique enhanced live video feed installation for the glass street level entrance of the museum. Early on we realized the necessity for a 3D model of the disappearing icon. Two undergraduate students of Architecture and Design picked up on the challenge and built the digital as well the physical acrylic model of 1230 N. Burling high-rise. The sound tool developed for the workshops was used for the installation at the MCA to enhance the model with sound/light activation.
Project Cabrini Green was unique collaborative learning experience that brought together students and faculty from different fields to create one multi-layered project.
Workshop Development and Facilitation
Efrat AppelMonica Hillerman Nicolai, Writing
Leah Oren, Art History and Arts Administration
Eddie Breitweiser, Sound
Lee Blalock, Performance
Kate Short, Ceramics
Josef Aguilar, Photography
Nina Rozes, Textile and Fiber
Alex Halbert, Film, Video and New Media
Sound Development and Processing
Kyle Evans, SoundEddie Breitweiser, Sound
Lee Blalock, Performance
LED Kit Development and Design
Wonbin Yang, Art and TechnologyEd Bennett, Art and Technology Research faculty
Anna Yu, Facilities Manager of Electronics & Kinetics
Web Platform
Dao Nguyen, Art and TechnologyKatherine Trimble, Art and Technology
Joey Moran, Art and Technology
Live Video Feed
Marla Sanvick, Art and TechnologyMonica Panzarino, Film, Video and New Media
Joshua Sampson, Film, Video and New Media
Jacob King, Sound
Chris Cuellar, Art and Technology Studies Faculty
Nadav Assor, Art and Technology Studies Faculty
Design and Print
Pharaon Siraj, Visual CommunicationArin Han, Visual Communication
Virtual and Physical modeling
Michael Genge, Architecture and Designed ObjectsJason Gillette, Architecture and Designed Objects
Overseeing Faculty
John Manning, Art and Technology Studies, ChairShawn Decker, Art and Technology Studies and Sound Departments, Professor
Nadav Assor, Art and Technology Studies Faculty