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(C) 2015 Chris Fries

I.T.S.I.ology

Illustrating Tools for a Social Identity

The different facets of information and Service tools that are created by the institutions of the Art and Humanities and Natural Sciences are the inspiration of this project (see above). In this Project I will research the Cultural and Intrinsic Values that have been created by Conceptual Contemporary Art and Nature’s Production and Consumption on and from society, which has created many concerns for the well being of our intellectual capacity in understanding our advancement in society and in the ecosystem, which changes how we should preserve both. I will show the effect both of these worlds have had on each other and in return how it has affected us by means of workshops, videos, installations and performances. My Project aims to create an intervention on the city of Vienna by Cultural Hacking or jamming it, to bring the “best” or “worst” out in the people from the things or ideas they associate with. I will create a participatory environment that should mimic our natural and un-natural world by asking the audience to collect these items of “Cultural and Intrinsic Value” and present it back to the people through the installation of an Open Source Space. In this space we will research and evaluate these items further. During the Project, I will be transferring knowledge, acquiring knowledge, preserving knowledge and presenting knowledge about I.T.S.I.ology to the people of the Open Source Space. On the last day I will hold an Action Auction that will show what the people find most or least important about the city that they associate with, by observing what they bid on during the sale. And rather then using money, I will ask that the people offer something else that has a lesser or equal value to the object being auctioned off. As I hope to, in turn, exhibit the “Values” people choose to associate with and return them back to the people to better understand their “Cultural and Intrinsic Value” in our society. In doing so I hope we may continue to change and understand our role in evolving as a species in whole, not segments or fragments, so we may better coexist in the harmony and chaos which surrounds these organic/inorganic substances or things.

In Collaboration with SOLID art collective

Fact Box

I.T.S.I.ology
Part of
Date
January 27, 2015