Art Project #18: Desalination for the Horn of Africa

Art Project #18: Desalination for the Horn of Africa Project

Description: Create an art project that will bring new desalination projects to the Horn of Africa.

Objectives:

to enhance the local populations ability to be self-sufficient in Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Eritrea

* to facilitate the emplacement of one or more desalination plants for the region

* to ensure that the desalination plants may be used by the people for independent farming

* alleviate and eventually put an end to famine in this region

Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist); Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)

Art Project #17: Global Warming Proof Project

Art Project #17: Global Warming Proof Project

Description: Create an art project that will show in vivid, undeniable terms, the dire global warming situation.

Objectives:

to provide an opportunity to end the controversy over global warming

* to expose the denier leadership

* to provide more opportunities to reveal the progress

* open new ways for people to see the impact of human activities on global warming

Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist); Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)

Art Project #16: Canada – Haiti Partnership Project

Art Project #16: Canada – Haiti Partnership Project

Description: Describe and/or promote a partnership between Canada and Haiti that would ultimately lead to some kind of federation

Objectives:

to facilitate a joint initiative that would provide many mutual benefits, including:

* to end the perpetual cycle of misery and suffering in Haiti (primary objective)

* to provide more useful activities for Canadians besides surfing on Facebook or playing computer games

* provide vast new opportunities for Canadians and Haitians

* extensive trade opportunities for both countries

* add new population to Canada to increase international influence

Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist); Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)

Idea #16: 7,000 Steps Per Day Initiative

Idea #16:

7,000 Steps Per Day Initiative

Description: This project is based on a well-known piece of advice that has become widely accepted. That is – to improve ones personal health by taking 10,000 steps per day. Our approach of using the 7,000 numbers is two-fold: First, 7,000 can  be seen as an interim threshold, a great improvement over the 1,000-3,000 steps taken by an average sedentary person.  Second, 7,000 steps is a perfect number to represent the amount of increase required to move from “sedentary” to the optimal 10,000 steps per day.

Objectives:

* To experience this healthy activity personally.

* To draw more attention to this activity/technique.

* To explore ways of leveraging this concept into artistic applications

Project Timing: Conception: 2010

Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist), Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)

Idea #15: Put 7,000 Pieces of Content on a Website

Idea #15:

Put 7,000 Pieces of Content on a Website

Description: Put 7,000 pieces of content on a given website or blog. Material could range from songs to short articles, links, long articles, etc. Keep track of how the site does as content is added.

Objectives:

* One of the hypotheses of this project is that 7,000 pieces of content will create a site that is a force to be reckoned with – capable of influence or generating sales.

* To draw attention to our art

* To learn about the subtleties of traffic building and website / search optimization

* To add 7,000 pieces of content – it seems obvious that some or a lot of it is going to be “quick” – so hopefully we can learn to what extent content by itself (without being particularly good or original) can affect the prominence of a website 

Project Timing: Conception: 2010

Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist), Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)

Idea #14: Measure the Effect of Having 7000 People Visit an Art Exhibit

Idea #14:

Measure the Effect of Having 7000 People Visit an Art Exhibit

Description: On Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007, the Vancouver Art Gallery eclipsed one of its milestones. By 10 p.m., after the gallery had been open for an extended 12 hour day, a total of 7,600 people had entered the premises on the last day of Monet To Dali, an exhibition of modernist paintings and sculptures from the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Although the idea is based on 7,000 people visiting a project in person. A starting point and comparison point could be to observe 7,000 online visitors to one or more art exhibitions.

Objectives:

* What is the impact of such an occurrence?

* On the artist(s)? On the city? On the viewers? On art in general? etc.  

Project Timing: Conception: 2010

Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist), Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)

Art Project #15: Art, a Sport?

Art Project #15: Art, a Sport?

Description: Present art as a sport, using all the typical hype

Objectives:

* to increase the profile of art and visual art

* to probe the hidden potentials of art as an entertainment form

* to create a basis for further exploration in this direction

Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist); Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)

Art Project #14: Artists’ Life in a Northern Eco City

Art Project #14: Artists’ Life in a Northern Eco City

Description: Describe the artists role in a northern eco city with a northern university

Objectives:

* to show an example of how a northern eco city could be run

* to show the role of the artist in such a city

* to explore various aspects of the northern eco city

* to examine economic models for life in a northern eco city

Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist); Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)

Art Project #13: An Economic Model for a Free-Will Society

Art Project #13: An Economic Model for a Free-Will Society

Description: Describe an economic model in which choice of career is more fluid and less dependent on financial need

Objectives:

* to show a theory of how to create a leveraged level playing field across society

* to show how the necessities of society can easily be provided almost incidental to a freely-structured capitalist system

* to explore potential for huge increases in productivity

* to open the door to explorations of complex alternative socio-economic micro-systems

* to envision a way of life that takes into account changes in economic reality of past 50 years

Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist); Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)

Art Project #12: Policy Framework for a Political Party

Art Project #12: Policy Framework for a Political Party

Description: Write a policy paper for a political party, roughly based on the Wildrose Party in Alberta

Objectives:

* to produce some interesting results

Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist); Offroad Artist (conceptual artist)