Bulletin Board Café – Institute 193: Dec 10 – Jan 9
Concept and organization by Michele Thursz in collaboration with Phillip March Jones.
The Bulletin Board Café at Institute 193 is an installation and social tool that encourages dialogue amongst individuals, local art communities and other groups with diverging interests. It is foremost, a place to exchange information locally. Bulletin boards are constantly being relocated to dedicated URLS, which propose an international public. In order to determine where technology might be best deployed is to address local needs, we must find situations where individual members of local communities are actively trying to find, connect, and share information with one another.
We propose the Bulletin Board Café at Institute 193 as a sociological tool that supports proximal information to encourage useful sharing amongst the local art communities and general public. The exchange of information supports the individual’s interests within a community and can possibly initiate broader social, cultural and economic dialog and actions. Bulletin Board Café is a tool for participation and community voice. We invite you to share responsibly any information with your public; this public includes minors. Bulletin Board Café will have a sign-up sheet to schedule free use of the café space to host PUBLIC round tables, free courses, and negotiations.
All ephemera, objects and information are to be included in the installation of Bulletin Board Cafe and all actions can be documented for publication.
Philosophy
It is human nature to communicate; the first societies were built on exchange thriving on the local resources. A healthy community will mirror in the individuals rights, freedom of expression, arts, politics, economy. As a community we can actively participate in a global society.
Health is cognitive to expression and aligns with prosperity, tolerance, and change.
Commodity
The Bulletin Board Café will serve coffee, tea, and soda.
Design
Property should be a small room with storefront window, to create intimate environment with a fish bowl visibility.
Bulletin Board Café/ installation
Bulletin board
Long picnic table
One chalk board for impromptu strategizing
Contact
Michele Thursz: michele.thursz@gmail.com
Phillip March Jones: phillip@institute193.org
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Bulletin Board Announcements
The cozy Bulletin Board Cafe
Institute 193 transformed its gallery into a public gathering place on Dec. 10, offering the space to whoever wanted to use it for discussions, posting notices, and general hanging out — a project called the Bulletin Board Café. According to the project flier:
The Bulletin Board Café at Institute 193 is an installation and social tool that encourages dialogue amongst individuals, local art communities and other groups with diverging interests. It is foremost, a place to exchange information locally. Bulletin boards are constantly being relocated to dedicated URLS, which propose an international public. In order to determine where technology might be best deployed is to address local needs. We must find situations where individual members of local communities are actively trying to find, connect, and share information with one another.
We wanted to spend some time down there, as participants and observers, but [insert lame excuse here]. Finally, with just 2 days left, a visit to this creative space was made. Phillip March Jones, the bossman at I-193, offered some intense discussion of art and our community and shared the postcard image he sent to his mother directly upon arriving in Paris to study. Phillip is one interesting guy.
As for the bulletin board, it was adorned with dollar bills, business cards, promotional notices, bar receipts, collages done by Joseph Hillenmeyer in his college days, sketches, poetry by Red Mile President Joe Costa, good humor, poignant reminders, private announcements, intimate celebrations… a fascinating visual collection of our community.
Pieces of the Bulletin Board
It’s too bad the holidays and the snow and the cold and the [insert other lame excuses here] kept us from enjoying more of the BBC, but we’re very excited to see Bruce Burris’s show We Will Someday Someday We Will, which opens Jan. 14, 6-9pm, down at I-193.