Because I'm not sure I can make the meeting this week, I wanted to recapitulate some of what I've suggested before that didn't make it into the last minutes. I would like to see a role for artists in the process of information gathering that might be analogous to the Island Institute's map or the digital library but in visual, layered form. The concept goes further than simply locating information or depicting it because my interest is in seeing the cumulative impacts of degradation or alternatively, restoration. Paul Schroeder called this work "visionary mapping". At the Wood's Hole meeting I displayed a large poster developed with geomorphologist Irwin Novak, based on work with Michele Dionne from Wells NERR to demonstrate how this might begin to look. This is not an illustration project but it might illustrate the application of GOMINFOEX. I did send an attach file of a recent installation at USM that went further than the poster but I gather not all could open it. If I come to the meeting, I'll bring prints from that. I'm now working on a more ambitious mapping installation for the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, in which I will be working to incorporate and interpret as much of the research data on the GOM and it's relationship to other geomorphic features as possible. It was suggested at Wood's Hole that various small institutions or small grants might be worth investigating. It is my experience that each installation I do is quite costly and I can't present without financial support which these small institutions don't have. The small grants that might be available are already earmarked for small parts of the work that goes into something this large. I am going to look into a larger grant but had hoped to partner in some way with GOMINFOEX as a source of data or even collaboration. There is a chance of interest, based on recent trips to New York, from both the Rockefellar and the Ford Foundation. I would welcome any thoughts from the group that might help make this possible.
At 08:13 AM 11/27/01 -0400, Boudreau, Paul R wrote: >Hello all, > >The draft agenda for the December 6-7th GOMINFOEX meeting in Eastport, >Maine, has been posted to the web at: >http://www.gulfofmaine.org/gominfoex/action_committee_meeting_6dec2001.html. > >The particular focus of this meeting will be community group and high school >interests, needs and contributions. > >Contact details for accommodations in the region can be found at the bottom >of the agenda > >Hope to see you there, > >Paul Boudreau >GOMINFOEX Info-Nag > >Marine Environmental Sciences Division >Department of Fisheries and Oceans >Bedford Institute of Oceanography >P.O. Box 1006 >Dartmouth, Nova Scotia >B2Y 4A2, Canada >Phone: (902) 426-7464 >Fax: (902) 426-6695 >E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/e/mesd/mesd-e.html >http://www.bio.gc.ca/ > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >List proprietor: (GOMINFOEX) >Website: http://www.gulfofmaine.org/gominfoex/ >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Phone:(902)426-7464 >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Distributed by ICPp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) If you are a community, >school group or non profit organization that would benefit from using a >listserve - please contact us. We may be able to help! >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Post message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Unsubscribe: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To reply to this conversation thread, hit reply otherwise a new >conversation will be created. >On-line Archiving: ><http://www.mail-archive.com/zeus-coastal-gominfoex-list%40phoebe.hosting4u.net/> ---------------------------------------------------------------- List proprietor: (GOMINFOEX) Website: http://www.gulfofmaine.org/gominfoex/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone:(902)426-7464 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Distributed by ICPp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) If you are a community, school group or non profit organization that would benefit from using a listserve - please contact us. We may be able to help! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Post message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribe: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To reply to this conversation thread, hit reply otherwise a new conversation will be created. On-line Archiving: <http://www.mail-archive.com/zeus-coastal-gominfoex-list%40phoebe.hosting4u.net/>
