PROPOSAL
The New York Underground Museum will be a permeable internet membrane of ideas, energies, and sensitivities. NYUM is a new model for Museums - a museum surrounded by air and light, open 24 hours a day where interactivity and collective viewer feedback are integrated into the perceptual process. NYUM will preserve, curate and present works that are not held by major institutions
We hope to raise the status of experimental artists working outside the Art Establishment, such as female artists, anti social artists, artists with emotional and physical disabilities, and artists of color. Through our NY Interact Global Chat program we will also facilitate open dialogue between international artists about contemporary artistic practice.
New York City is more than a city. It is an idea. Through NYUM, the NY Experimental Art Community will grow beyond its geographical and chronological location to encompass a metaphysicality of art lovers and connoisseurs. We hope this concept is a harbinger of a new era of cultural inclusiveness.
The New York Underground Museum is designed specifically for the worldwide web, and the artworks presented will be ideally suited for Internet delivery: Digital Art, Video, Performance Art, Animation, Interactive Art, Visual Music. Our museum will be open to the global public, 24/7.
Our Splash Page and Flash Animations were designed by digital visionary Steve Speer, Director of Visual Technology.
We have 5 Basic Entry Points for the Museum:
Coming: " The 3 Jacks"
Digital Artist Jack Ox, Video Artist Jack Waters, and Interdisciplinary Artist Jack Smith.
• My Bohemia
A virtual bohemia where any artist can create a home page ( a global network ala My Space) showing his or her work, because art is all about conversation between artists.
• 3D Animation Museum Game
Designed by SVA MFA 2007 Computer graduate Dae Woon Na, we are developing a game that simulates the obstacles artists must overcome to thrive in a real bohemia: nightmares, drug addiction, thieves, fear of rejection, STD'S, and art world politics. Just as the US Army prepares young men for the rigors of war through War Games, we will make young people strong, and ready to fight for Art and Truth.
• Interactive Avant Garde Map of New York
Where Bohemians, past and present, work and play.
• NYUM Blog.
Will be deep linked to the music, video and the best blogs in town including Roulette Intermedium's Roulette.org.
NYUM was founded by Arlene Schloss, performance and video artist, curator of A's Performance Loft, and Phoebe Legere, transdisciplinary Artist, and Head Writer/Host of Roulette TV. NYUM is operating under the aegis of Black Maria Inc, a not for profit corporation. It's director, Roberta Friedman, is our Video Curator.
As money for the arts diminishes, there is a need for new strategies in arts presentation. We will present work by internationally recognized art stars as well as recent art by underground, visionary and emerging artists rarely seen outside of New York City. We have access to this content because of our decades of work and long standing connections with curators, scholars and artists in the New York art world.
BUDGET
Game Developer: Dae woon Na 1100
Arts Presentation Technology: Steve Speer 1000
Administration Fees: Arlene Schloss, Phoebe Legere 2400
Fundraising/Granting Supervisor Kevin Duggan 1200
Video Curating: Roberta Friedman 250
Materials: 200
Overhead fee to Black Maria Inc. 300.
TOTAL: 6450.00
Timeline: Go Live - Game, Map and Virtual Bohemia 9/14/07
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