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December 22, 2005
Can you keep a secret?
I have been quietly given a huge honor.
I have been asked by Burningman this year to work with Larry Harvey and Rod Garret on the design of next years Burningman.
Burningman may be the current eye of the tornado of the worldwide art community, and the "Man" is the very jewel in the crown.
The theme next year will be "Hope and Fear" pointing a questioning finger towards the future. We have designed the Man to rise or fall in a shaft, its elevation depending upon general levels of optimism, (or otherwise)of the population of our temporary city in the desert (the fifth largest in Nevada last year).
This collective mood will be gaged by voting pods sprinkled through the city, where people are encouraged to scale their levels of hope or fear. This information is then fed by wi-fi to the Man and is translated into his being up on top, or down in the dumps.
The shaft is supported by eight flying buttresses which have a Fritz Lang/art deco feel, and lit at night with neon.
The outside enclosure forms a courtyard to a maze, the successful navigation of which will allow access to stairs taking you up to a top deck and the Man.
We have used my Virtual Playa software to model the Man as a computer 3d object and make changes to the design as we explore the structure in Virtual reality. These are day and night screen shot from the Virtual Playa project.
Next month, Burningman makes its presentation to the Federal bureau of Land Management, and the State of Nevada, which we will illustrate with my program projected onto a giant screen and take them on a virtual tour of Burningman 2006... It will knock them down!
Here is shot I took from a light aircraft of Burningman's Black Rock City in its 2005 incarnation.
Posted by Barbara at December 22, 2005 02:12 PM
Comments
Very cool. Happy New Year to you all!
Posted by: d-rod at December 29, 2005 07:30 PM