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==Cayden Mak – ''Buffalove''== | ==Cayden Mak – ''Buffalove''== | ||
[[Image:Time Mutations - Cayden Mak - Buffalove.jpg|thumb|right|Cayden Mak – Buffalove]] | |||
Buffalo(ve) is a multimedia collaborative installation. The lightbox is equipped with an unnamed map of the neighborhood around the [http://www.buffalolib.org/libraries/crane/index.asp Crane Branch Library] in Buffalo, New York, which library patrons are invited to contribute their own names to. During the course of the installation, a new clear layer on top of the map is added every few days to give more people the opportunity to share and contribute, as well as create a literally layered archaeology of names that local people give to the landscape around them. | |||
Naming is essentially a social practice, and inscribes values and ideas about a place onto the literal physical landscape. A function of conquest, discovery, and historicization, naming places is usually left up to the strongest, history’s “winners.” However, many places hold secret caches of names — whether they’re what the indigenous people used to call a nearby river, or the name your daughter first gave the grocery store, or a made-up language all your own. Many of these names get lost as people age, die, or move away. Buffalo(ve) is an attempt to preserve some of the hidden, personal, or inscrutable names that we give to our city. | |||
[http://thenoiseofthestreet.net/?cat=3 Visit artist's website] for full documentation | |||
==[[Tommy Neuwirth]] – ''Untitled''== | ==[[Tommy Neuwirth]] – ''Untitled''== | ||
==Scott Ries – ''Aceeeh ino rrssstUv''== | ==Scott Ries – ''Aceeeh ino rrssstUv''== |
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