On participating these are the shoes that you would be designing on!
I am going to start working on mine soon :)
Sunday, 9 August 2009
WANDERING FEET!
Hi everyone,
So as you all probably know that lots has been happening at the Wandering Geography front.
There is the Waterman Gallery exhibition in a few months and work on the new website is starting soon!
We are developing another sub-set of Wandering Geography called 'Wandering Feet'.
The project is open for all artist and designers to join in.
Here is the Wandering Feet- what? how? when? and where?
Give it a read and let me know if you are interested.
Hello! Hello!
As super creative upcoming artists, illustrators, dreamers and designers we hoped you might be interested in this proposal. Feel free to distribute this email, as the more artists the merrier!
INTRODUCTION
'Wandering Feet’ is a collaborative project initiated by designer Niharika Hariharan with Bokkie Shoes (http://www.bokkieshoes.co.za) This project is an extension of ‘Wandering Geography’ (www.wandering-geography.com) exploring fun and intuitive ways of moving through cities. ‘Wandering Feet’ invites artists and designers to explore their cities and share their journey through artwork mapped on shoes.
BACKGROUND
‘Wandering Feet’ emerged from the online platform ‘Wandering Geography’, containing three essential templates that people can use to create, use and share way-finding methods that are not guided by city structures. It encourages people to explore their cities based on their interests and intuition instead of following routes and maps.
The ‘Wandering Geography’ (www.wandering-geography.com) online platform showcases some of the wanderings done by people from various cities. Similarly artists work produced by ‘Wandering Feet” will be featured as artist profiles on ‘Wandering Geography’, and supported by similar mini-sites on the ‘Bokkie Shoes’ website, Etsy, and Flickr.
WANDERING FEET CALL TO ARTISTS
‘Wandering Feet’ invites artists, illustrators, dreamers and designers from all over the world to use these templates to explore their city and record their ‘wanderings’ through their footprints, using the white canvas of the Bokkie Shoes boot.
Participants are free to develop and interpret the ‘Wandering Geography’ templates as they choose, using any variety of unique visual aesthetics and approaches as appropriate. These templates are inspired by alternative ways of navigation such as celestial mapping and way-finding using personal landmarks. Each of the these templates are open-ended and allow the user to add their own experience and journey to them. The templates come with a brief background and explanation of how they might be used. More information can be found on the website.
DESIRED OUTCOME
The ‘Wandering Feet’ project hopes to create fun and interesting shoes that people can use as maps to explore their environment and to explore cities from the eyes of another. They can then add their own story and experience onto the shoes and make it their own.
Three criteria of 'Wandering Feet' are:
• Wandering Feet will be marketed as a series of foot-art-wear that has a one off appeal and a unique illustrated quality, representative of different artists and cities at a global level.
• Wandering Feet will create foot-art-wear that people can use to explore cities in a new and exciting way.
• Wandering Feet will encourage people to add their own routes and memories to the artwork on the shoes.
WANDERING FEET FOR A CAUSE
This project is initiated primarily as a way of getting creative practitioners to work together and also have the chance to contribute valuably to issues that are of concern.By creating and then auctioning a series of unique shoes created by artists/designers, we intend to use any proceeds as a donation to charities of their choice. With an exception of the donation of the canvas shoes from Bokkie Shoes, the project does not receive funding and will rely on the goodwill and interest of the artists and designers to keep momentum. However, we are open to any funding opportunities, preferably in terms of the printing and distribution of shoes.
PROCESS (THE SMALL PRINT)
• Each artist/ designer receives a pair of shoes and downloads the templates from ‘Wandering Geography.’
• The shoes are a blank white canvas and provide an opportunity to have fun with a new material.
• The artists and designers are requested to send us photographs of the making of, as well as their completed shoes. Upon receiving these, we will be responsible for publicity, marketing and auctioning of the shoes and their artists. Artists are also required to submit a profile picture and a 500 word biography used to promote the shoes and the artists online.
• Over the period of 1 year, the shoes will be then set up for auction. The artists/designers can choose the minimum cost for the shoe which would include the postage cost.
• On making a sale, the buyer would get in touch with the artist and the fee for the sale will be directly sent by an online payment organization to the charity foundation. We will provide support with the transaction and ensuring that the amount is received by the specific chosen charity organization.
• In return, the artists would receive publicity of their work on all our artist networking sites including Etsy, Wandering Geography and Bokkie Shoes.
This is an opportunity for you to be freely creative, have fun with a new medium and contribute to a cause that you think is worthy. In addition the project will create a network of similar artists with the potential to open up new possibilities for interaction with other similar creators at a global level.
Please free to contact us for any questions or ideas that you may have.
If you are interested, please send us an email with your name and location so we can arrange a Bokkie boot drop off.
Thank you,
Niharika Hariharan
E- wandering.geography@gmail.com
As super creative upcoming artists, illustrators, dreamers and designers we hoped you might be interested in this proposal. Feel free to distribute this email, as the more artists the merrier!
INTRODUCTION
'Wandering Feet’ is a collaborative project initiated by designer Niharika Hariharan with Bokkie Shoes (http://www.bokkieshoes.co.za) This project is an extension of ‘Wandering Geography’ (www.wandering-geography.com) exploring fun and intuitive ways of moving through cities. ‘Wandering Feet’ invites artists and designers to explore their cities and share their journey through artwork mapped on shoes.
BACKGROUND
‘Wandering Feet’ emerged from the online platform ‘Wandering Geography’, containing three essential templates that people can use to create, use and share way-finding methods that are not guided by city structures. It encourages people to explore their cities based on their interests and intuition instead of following routes and maps.
The ‘Wandering Geography’ (www.wandering-geography.com) online platform showcases some of the wanderings done by people from various cities. Similarly artists work produced by ‘Wandering Feet” will be featured as artist profiles on ‘Wandering Geography’, and supported by similar mini-sites on the ‘Bokkie Shoes’ website, Etsy, and Flickr.
WANDERING FEET CALL TO ARTISTS
‘Wandering Feet’ invites artists, illustrators, dreamers and designers from all over the world to use these templates to explore their city and record their ‘wanderings’ through their footprints, using the white canvas of the Bokkie Shoes boot.
Participants are free to develop and interpret the ‘Wandering Geography’ templates as they choose, using any variety of unique visual aesthetics and approaches as appropriate. These templates are inspired by alternative ways of navigation such as celestial mapping and way-finding using personal landmarks. Each of the these templates are open-ended and allow the user to add their own experience and journey to them. The templates come with a brief background and explanation of how they might be used. More information can be found on the website.
DESIRED OUTCOME
The ‘Wandering Feet’ project hopes to create fun and interesting shoes that people can use as maps to explore their environment and to explore cities from the eyes of another. They can then add their own story and experience onto the shoes and make it their own.
Three criteria of 'Wandering Feet' are:
• Wandering Feet will be marketed as a series of foot-art-wear that has a one off appeal and a unique illustrated quality, representative of different artists and cities at a global level.
• Wandering Feet will create foot-art-wear that people can use to explore cities in a new and exciting way.
• Wandering Feet will encourage people to add their own routes and memories to the artwork on the shoes.
WANDERING FEET FOR A CAUSE
This project is initiated primarily as a way of getting creative practitioners to work together and also have the chance to contribute valuably to issues that are of concern.By creating and then auctioning a series of unique shoes created by artists/designers, we intend to use any proceeds as a donation to charities of their choice. With an exception of the donation of the canvas shoes from Bokkie Shoes, the project does not receive funding and will rely on the goodwill and interest of the artists and designers to keep momentum. However, we are open to any funding opportunities, preferably in terms of the printing and distribution of shoes.
PROCESS (THE SMALL PRINT)
• Each artist/ designer receives a pair of shoes and downloads the templates from ‘Wandering Geography.’
• The shoes are a blank white canvas and provide an opportunity to have fun with a new material.
• The artists and designers are requested to send us photographs of the making of, as well as their completed shoes. Upon receiving these, we will be responsible for publicity, marketing and auctioning of the shoes and their artists. Artists are also required to submit a profile picture and a 500 word biography used to promote the shoes and the artists online.
• Over the period of 1 year, the shoes will be then set up for auction. The artists/designers can choose the minimum cost for the shoe which would include the postage cost.
• On making a sale, the buyer would get in touch with the artist and the fee for the sale will be directly sent by an online payment organization to the charity foundation. We will provide support with the transaction and ensuring that the amount is received by the specific chosen charity organization.
• In return, the artists would receive publicity of their work on all our artist networking sites including Etsy, Wandering Geography and Bokkie Shoes.
This is an opportunity for you to be freely creative, have fun with a new medium and contribute to a cause that you think is worthy. In addition the project will create a network of similar artists with the potential to open up new possibilities for interaction with other similar creators at a global level.
Please free to contact us for any questions or ideas that you may have.
If you are interested, please send us an email with your name and location so we can arrange a Bokkie boot drop off.
Thank you,
Niharika Hariharan
E- wandering.geography@gmail.com
Saturday, 8 August 2009
Wandering Geography at Waterman Gallery
Wandering Geography has now been selected to be exhibited at Waterman Gallery in London as part of Enter09.
Enter09 annual showcase of the year's finest work by South Asian New Media Graduates which includes films, animation, interaction design etc.
Read more about the show at
http://www.watermans.org.uk/zdev/enter/
cheers
niharika
Enter09 annual showcase of the year's finest work by South Asian New Media Graduates which includes films, animation, interaction design etc.
Read more about the show at
http://www.watermans.org.uk/zdev/enter/
cheers
niharika
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Wandering Geography in 'Directmedia'
Hello!
Wandering Geography has been a bit dormant for a while but, that is because I have been busy wrapping up the project and developing it further.
So there will be a lot of exciting updates over the following week.
As you all know ‘Wandering Geography’ was my final MA project for ‘Creative Practice for Narrative Environments’ at Central Saint Martins, London.
It was a part of the final graduation show held from 19th-25th June, 2009 and very well received.
Thank you to all the people who wandered for the project, it would not have been possible without you guys!
Post exhibition, Wandering Geography was published in the ‘directionsmedia’ newsletter on the 24th of July,2009.
Take a look
http://www.directionsmedia.net/newsletters.archive/index.php?ID=1448
Coming up ‘Wandering Feet’ a collaborative project with emerging artists and designers.
Wandering Geography has been a bit dormant for a while but, that is because I have been busy wrapping up the project and developing it further.
So there will be a lot of exciting updates over the following week.
As you all know ‘Wandering Geography’ was my final MA project for ‘Creative Practice for Narrative Environments’ at Central Saint Martins, London.
It was a part of the final graduation show held from 19th-25th June, 2009 and very well received.
Thank you to all the people who wandered for the project, it would not have been possible without you guys!
Post exhibition, Wandering Geography was published in the ‘directionsmedia’ newsletter on the 24th of July,2009.
Take a look
http://www.directionsmedia
Coming up ‘Wandering Feet’ a collaborative project with emerging artists and designers.
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