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Face Your World
Face Your WorldDuration: 06.2002 – 08.2002 Location: inner city, Columbus, Ohio Participants: 161 Visitors: people looking at the Bus Stops Number of events: 2 Additional Presentations: Continued in second version in StedelijkLab Slotervaart At Carlos Basualdo’s invitation, Van Heeswijk developed a project for the Wexner Center in cooperation with the Children of the Future program of the Greater Columbus Arts Council and COTA (Columbus Ohio Transport Authority). The project, called Face Your World (2002), offered children a collective learning environment, in which they could learn how to investigate, as well as adapt, their living environment. It allowed children to ‘engineer’ their surroundings, combining and re-using existing elements in order to devise new and innovative visions for their city. For the project a city bus was turned into a fully equipped digital lab. Outfitted with computers and digital cameras, the bus gave participating children a chance to photograph and explore different downtown neighbourhoods. The children could upload the photographs they took on the road into the Interactor, a 3-D multi-user computer program environment, developed in association with Maaike Engelen, Marco Christis and V2_Lab, which allowed them to reconfigure their environment using images as material. When kids logged in with their name and passport number, they would find themselves in Columbus, Ohio (3-D navigation), as they knew it. The program would allow them to make selections from a library of images (a building, a tree or a car, for example), whatever they needed to change their environment. They could then place these objects in the world by choosing a flat object or a 3-D box. All objects can be moved, rotated, lifted, scaled, deformed and deleted. Objects can also be modified in the 2-D edit mode. On this 2-D drawing board the kids could cut, draw, paint, type, mirror and erase. Avatars with their own faces represent users, so the kids could see one another navigating around the world. The world is a shared place in which they all have to work together, but every child also has his or her own exclusive area, where no one else is allowed to build without asking for permission. The kids can then negotiate in a chat environment, which can also be used to simply send each other messages, making communication and cooperation a vital part of constructing a world. The children’s views of the city were accessible on the site and on ‘Bus Stop’, interactive kiosks constructed by Atelier van Lieshout at three community centres. 2002, Ohio

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De Strip/ Freehouse/ From the Sidelines/ Room with a view (Dissonance)/ Room with a view (Positioning)/ Room with a view (Real Stories from Life)/ Outside Livingroom/ I + the Other. Art and the Human Condition/ Until we meet again/ A House for the Community/ NEsTWORK/ State of Mind/ Break. Dance./ The Secret City/ The world is bigger than Schijndel/ Hotel New York P.S.1/ Valley Vibes. The Vibe-Detector/ Water walker/ Welcome Package Welcome Stranger/ A Christmas Pudding for Henry/ Under the Spell of the Ring/ Subway to the Outside/ Wish for a Coffee/ Acte de Présence - Sans Valeur/ Draw a line/ Raising a Ruckus/ Casco-Mobile/ Z.T. (Duurzame Versterkingskunst)/ A Paper House/ Face Your World/ Beyond ethics & aesthetics/ Room with a view/ Room with a view (Private)/ Room with a view (Annex)/ Room with a view (Longing)/ Room with a view (The Neighbour)/ The Office/ Casco, Coffee and Communication/ In the Field of Players/ The Dinner/ The Blue House/ Face Your World, StedelijkLab Slotervaart/ Dwaallicht (Will o the whisp)/ Works, Typologies and Capacities/ Some 7/ Ariadne/ Narratives of Desire/ An Sich/ Brain Storm/ Amnesia of a Landscape/ Care-Taker/ Fields of (inter)action/ Shelter-07/ Face Your World, Museumpark/ You and the City. Diaries of a Future Avant-garde/ Shanghai Dreaming, Holding an Urban Gold Card/ It runs in the Neighbourhood/ Talking Trash/ Buiten Post/ The Resistance of Small Happiness/ Public Faculty No. 1/

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Networks, faces, membranes/ Creative Urge, annex a Zeal for Improvement/ A House for the Community/ Principles of Hope/ Germinal/ Freehouse/ Conquest/ The Miracle of Gorinchem/ In The Field of Players/ The Artist as Versatile Infiltrator of Public Space/ Noem mij maar gewoon een portretschilder/

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