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Library Center with our proposal for Acid Migration of Culture, we felt that it was a natural extension of our recent work [I] and a perfect site for the issues on which we wished to focus, especially because of its location across from the Museum of Modern Art. We wanted to present, as clearly as possible, the polemics surrounding art, public funding, the role of the artist, and freedom of speech to the art-going public. These issues are closely related to the role of the library, its significance as a place where ideas and information are freely exchanged, preserved and conserved for posterity. Note 1. For the past 3 years, we have created installations that use the convenlions and language of television to establish the boundaries of an emerging lexicon. These pieces make use of video in relation to print media, newspapers and books. They focus on how we read the media and show that video and television, as vehicles for words and images , are texts to be read and deciphered. We have also expanded these ideas metaphorically and have made book structures incorporating monitors and video. These works play with the changing perceptions of what a book is and how we read information. They highlight aspects of a cultnre, our cultnre, which is inundated by television images and satnrated by electronic data. SOUND AND CERAMICS Bart Lynch, 5720 W. Harrison Street, Chandler, AZ 85226, U.S.A. In architecture, natural harmonies occur in Renaissance structures. Harmonic relations of form and space were often based on the golden section and the ratios therein. These same ratios occur in the growth patterns of flowers, fish and other components of nature. I am currently concerned with understanding why these ratios occur and why they are pleasing to us. I have been translating sounds into three-dimensional pottery using several computer programs in order to see if pleasing sounds make pleasing pottery and vice versa [I]. Using the sound program Sound Edit Pro, I can get a visual representation of a sound that is time dependent. That visual is saved as a picture and imported to the program Swivel 3D where the sound form can be lathed to resemble pottery and used as a template to create actual ceramic works. Using these programs, I have also been animating the figures so that the pottery forms on the computer screen dialogue with the sounds that created them. I see these processes as 306 Words on Works data-gathering exercises that help me to understand the nature of the harmonic relations so that I will be able to use them more effectively in the future. Note 1. This work was developed at Deep Creek School in conceptual collaboration with Dan Collins. GLOBAL DISPLACEMENT NETWORK Dana Fritz, 710 W. 12th Place, Tempe, AZ 85281, U.S.A. E-mail: . Larry Gawel, 521 W. College Avenue, Apt. 4B, State College, PA 16801, U.S.A. E-mail: . At the Deep Creek Ranch Outpost of the Global Displacement Network, our latest project highlights the channels of water through a sea of mail [I]. Our projects are carefully planned and documented in order to provide an entire library of resource material for future generations . Our interests lie in the tension between homogenization and diversity, time and place, people and landscape and/or any combination of these. For the Deep Creek Experimental Water Exchange Program, bottles of water from the snow-melt stream on our premises were mailed (in accordance to United States Postal Service regulations) to various predetermined locations throughout the lower 48 states. Included in the packaging were requests for water from those locations and postage for its return . Space was provided for the participants to note their usage of the Deep Creek water and the origin of the exchange water (Fig. 4). Fig. 4. Dana Fritz and Larry Gawel, Global Displacement Network, mixed media , 1993. These state-of-the-art fluidexchange vessels originally contained displaced spring water from France. When the exchange water is received , it is stored in our tempered ice shed until it can be evaluated for clarity ,wetness, shape-holding ability, size, smell and pourability. After the testing procedures are completed, the specimens...

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