A  new  interdisciplinary  elective  course.  All  disciplines  welcome. For  fall  2014,  register  for  ATLAS  4519/5519-­‐001. Scheduled  MW  11:00-­‐1:50  p.m.  with  additional  studio  time  as  team  projects  evolve. ©2007  Christo ©2005  Christo  Photo:  Wolfgang  Volz Christo  &  Jeanne-­‐Claude’s   Over  the  River  Project ©1972  Christo  Photo:  Wolfgang  Volz ©1991  Christo  Photo:  Wolfgang  Volz ©1983  Christo  Photo:  Wolfgang  Volz ©1993  Christo  Photo:  Wolfgang  Volz This  is  a  Special  Topics  multidisciplinary  class  at  ATLAS  that  will  focus  on   Christo  and  Jeanne-­‐Claude’s  Art  with  special  attention  to  Over  the  River  proj-­‐ ect  on  the  Arkansas  River  between  Salida  and  Cañon  City.    The  purpose  of  this   team-­‐based  class  will  be  to  create  original  documents,  videos,  research  papers,  and   other  media  that  highlight  Christo  &  Jeanne-­‐Claude’s  art  and  how  it  plays  in  the   social  and  economic  fabric  of  our  American  West  and  worldwide.     Looking  for  students  studying: •  Legal  history  and  process  of  putting   About  the  Instructor,  Don  Grusin: •  Art  &  Art  History panels  above  the  Arkansas   Don  has  created  and  taught  the  classes   •  Arts  &  Sciences •  Engineering  pre-­‐  and  post-­‐production   World  Music  Video  Projects  as  a  Catalyst   •  Business (cables  and  fabric  construction  and   for  Social  Change  and  Creating  New   •  Education installation) Media  for  the  Old  &  New  West  at  ATLAS   •  Engineering  &  Applied •  Local  community  leaders  who  favor  and   Institute.          Science who  oppose  the  project   He  holds  a  master’s  degree  in •  Environmental  Design •  Environmental  Impact  Statements economics  from  the  University  of   •  Journalism  and  Mass •  The  historical  and  continuing  role  of   Colorado  and  taught  as  a  Fulbright          Communication the  BLM,  USFS,  Colorado  Dept  of  Wildlife,   professor  in  Mexico.  A  grammy-­‐ •  Law •  Fremont  /  Chaffee  County  Sheriffs  and   winning  composer,  producer,  pianist,   •  Music Colorado  State  Government  and  the   Don  lives  and  works  in  Los  Angeles. •  Technology,  Arts,  &  Media (cid:24)(cid:144)(cid:139)(cid:145)(cid:144)(cid:3)(cid:19)(cid:131)(cid:133)(cid:139)(cid:976)(cid:139)(cid:133)(cid:3)(cid:21)(cid:131)(cid:139)(cid:142)(cid:148)(cid:145)(cid:131)(cid:134)(cid:484)     •  Geography,  Geology  and  Water  Chemis-­‐ Questions  and  Contact  Information: Explore  these  related  topics: try  and  other  resources  in  the  Arkansas   Email  teaching  assistant,  Kelly  Brichta,   •  Christo’s  and  Jeanne-­‐Claude’s  history (cid:21)(cid:139)(cid:152)(cid:135)(cid:148)(cid:3)(cid:25)(cid:131)(cid:142)(cid:142)(cid:135)(cid:155)(cid:484)(cid:3) at  [email protected]   •  The  effects  of  Christo  and   •  New  creations  of  music  and  sound   Jeanne-­‐Claude’s  art inspired  from  art •  The  Philosophical  underpinnings  of   (cid:520)(cid:3)(cid:23)(cid:145)(cid:151)(cid:148)(cid:139)(cid:149)(cid:143)(cid:3)(cid:131)(cid:144)(cid:134)(cid:3)(cid:148)(cid:135)(cid:133)(cid:148)(cid:135)(cid:131)(cid:150)(cid:139)(cid:145)(cid:144)(cid:481)(cid:3)(cid:138)(cid:139)(cid:141)(cid:139)(cid:144)(cid:137)(cid:481)(cid:3)(cid:976)(cid:142)(cid:155)(cid:3) the  massive  art (cid:976)(cid:139)(cid:149)(cid:138)(cid:139)(cid:144)(cid:137)(cid:481)(cid:3)(cid:143)(cid:145)(cid:151)(cid:144)(cid:150)(cid:131)(cid:139)(cid:144)(cid:3)(cid:133)(cid:142)(cid:139)(cid:143)(cid:132)(cid:139)(cid:144)(cid:137)(cid:481)(cid:3)(cid:132)(cid:139)(cid:141)(cid:139)(cid:144)(cid:137)(cid:481)(cid:3)(cid:135)(cid:150)(cid:133)(cid:484) •  Financing  of  art  projects ATLAS 4519-001 / 5519-001 - 3 credit-hour course Christo & Jeanne-Claude’s Over the River Project Brief Class Description and Syllabus for Fall Semester – 2014 Monday/Wednesday, 11AM-1:50 PM. ATLAS 2B31. This is a Special Topics multidisciplinary class at ATLAS that will focus on Christo and Jeanne- Claude’s Over the River project on the Arkansas River between Salida and Cañon City. - http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/ We will visit the Sites (near Salida and/or Cañon City) Fri-Sun Sept 12th-14th, 2014 The purpose of team-based this class will be to create original documents, videos, research papers, and other media that highlight Christo & Jeanne-Claude’s art and how it plays in the social and economic fabric of our American West and worldwide. We are seeking innovative students who are majoring in and have an interest in the variety of disciplines which intertwine in this massive Colorado art project, some examples included here: • !"#$%&'$()*+,&-$!"#$.+*#/"0-$1+&)$!"#*$ • !&#2"/3/4/,0$ • !"52)/4/,0$ • !"52+#)5#6")$ • !'7)"#+*+&,-$8/5+%4$9&#")3")&)6"*2+3$ • !:;!8$<&*#+#6#)$:!=$8#6')&#*$ • (+,+#%4$=)'+%$ • 95/4/,0-$>9?<@A$ • 95/&/B+5*-$C/BB6&+#0$()7)4/3B)&#$ • 9&7+"/&B)&#%4$95/&/B+5*$ • 9&,+&))"+&,$D$()*+,&-$>9E9FA$$ • 9#2&/B6*+5/4/,0$ • 9&,4+*2$ • 1+4B$3"/'65#+/&$%&'$:)52&/4/,0$ • G)/4/,0$%&'$C<H98$ • .+*#/"0$ • ./&/"*$H!I$ 1 • C/BB6&+5%#+/&*$ • Leeds School of Business, Marketing • ;%J$%&'$K%#)"$;%J$ • =)'+5+&)-$F6"*+&,$ • =6*+5$I)"L/"B%&5)-$I"/'65#+/&-$$D:)52&/4/,0$ • I2/#/,"%320$ • I2+4/*/320$ • I")M;%J-$I/4+#+5%4$85+)&5)-$I6N4+5$!'B+&+*#"%#+/&$ • I*052/4/,0$ • H2)#/"+5$%&'$K"+#+&,$ • 852//4$/L$O/6"&%4+*B$%&'$=%**$ • 8/5+/4/,0$$ • 8#6'0$/L$<&'+,)&/6*$;%&,6%,)*$$ • K)N$')*+,&$ Purpose And Mission Of The Christo Class Christo Class at the Roser-ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado, Fall Semester, 2014 2 Jeanne-Claude & Christo Umbrellas – LA / Japan Mission statement To produce a platform that entices students to immerse themselves into multiple disciplines, environments, and cultures in order that they might significantly expand their capacity to serve society and enhance their self-worth. Goals 1. To enable students to acquire skills from experts, instructors and from each other. 2. To expand students’ awareness of alternative career paths stemming from their research and pursuit of the variety of topics that are part of the Over The River project. Process 1.Candidates a. Undergraduate and graduate students from CU from all disciplines and backgrounds. 2. What and How a. The class meets twice a week for 3 hours each on Monday and Wednesday in the Production Studio 2B31in ATLAS. There will be many work hours outside of class-time and may require use of the editing labs, the computer lab, and access to the talented staff in the building. Requested equipment includes audio and video gear, hi-speed Internet access, computers, cameras, and other media facilities in ATLAS. Student teams would travel to Christo’s OTR sites, carry out research related to their varied topics, do video interviews with the parties involved, become immersed in the art project, and potentially hire on for various jobs for Christo’s organization. b. The undergraduate and graduate students would come from every discipline, and, from our experience, consistently demonstrate glowing and sometimes unpredictable results from engaging in interdisciplinary teamwork. We would seek students from, but not limited to, the list above on pages 1 & 2. 3 Focus – To bring to the awareness of the students and then the public, the wide array of issues that would not immediately be obvious when ‘his art hits the eye’. In researching and then documenting the Christo OTR production on the Arkansas River, these intertwined and complex dynamics that attend the project are the focus of the class. Christo Drawing - Over The River As the class is entirely and intensively focused on Christo’s work that, as a likely by product, this class will be an asset to CU students, their career paths, and to the art world. Like the preceding “New Media for Social Change” classes offered at ATLAS in 2008, 2009 and 2012, students working together acquire new skills and become inspired to bring awareness to the community and in so doing, effect social change even long after they finish the class and leave the university. The multi-disciplined students adopt skills from instructors, mentors, experts, and from each other, and share in leadership, technology, teamwork, research, hands-on recording, editing, and techniques in interviewing, which arm them fearlessly and proactively to do the projects. In 2008 Grusin helped create the first multidisciplinary class at ATLAS World Music Videos as Catalyst for Social Change which evolved into a series of classes culminating in Spring 2012 with a BLM-PLF-CAW-sponsored course Creating New Media for the Old & New West. As an additional advantage for us here at CU are friends of Christo living near Boulder, including the ex-President of CSU, Chris Christopherson, and Dick Miller, who worked with Christo in successfully marshalling through the OTR project on the Arkansas River, tentatively due to happen on the Arkansas in 2014-2015-2016. 4 Finally, we have a one-time-only chance to witness a creation of a Christo and Jeanne- Claude massive art project, right in our own backyard. It is projected that 30-40 students from a variety of backgrounds and experience will flock to this opportunity. The class will collaborate with guest experts and professionals including artists, economists, engineers, political administrators, public land administrators, (BLMers), mining engineers, agricultural economists, energy administrators, filmmakers, composers, American Indian representatives, archaeologists, water quality experts, veterinarians, forestry administrators, (USFS),Colorado and US Fish and Wildlife Service, recreation workers, Colorado State Highway Patrol, retail recreation outlets near the project sites, guides, photographic, video, film, music and artist friends and experts around the US and the West. We will research many of these areas including, and most importantly, how Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s art affects the public here and abroad. We will make use of books, documents, maps, computers, video and audio gear, movies, conferences, meetings with the experts in the field, television, social and business media, Twitter, Facebook, etc. As in the past we’ll have a website for our exclusive crosstalk, assignments, research, ideas, blogs, music, some data storage, demo output, and for networking with experts in the field. This website will serve as the assignment calendar. Here is the site setup for the last class - http://cnmatlas.ning.com/ One of our central class missions will be to present the final reports, videos, and results of the teams’ research to the public here at CU in December, 2014 Probable Topics: Here are suggested topics, although the students, when given the chance, ALWAYS find other interesting angles, usually brilliant. • Christo’s and Jeanne-Claude’s History- Bulgaria, Prague, Vienna, France, NYC • The effect of Christo-Jeanne-Claude’s Art: Hanging Curtain in Rifle, NY Gates, LA- Kyoto Umbrellas, German Reichstag, and Gas Balloon, France-Pont Neuf, California-Running Fence in Sonoma County • The Philosophical underpinnings of his massive art • Engineering pre- and postproduction- cables and fabric construction, installation • Christo’s financing of his art projects • Legal history and process of Christo’s mission to put panels above the Arkansas • Local community leaders who favor and who oppose the project, Local politics, economy & schools 5 • Environmental impact statements, lawsuits from ROAR and other groups • The historical and continuing role of the BLM, USFS, Colorado Dept of Wildlife, • Fremont / Chaffee County Sheriffs and Colorado State Government and the Union Pacific Railroad. • Description of the Geography, Geology and Water Chemistry and other resources in the Arkansas River Valley. • New creations of music and sound inspired from Christo’s work that could be symphonic, operatic, experimental, jazz, indie, rap (WRAP?) etc • Projected effects and footprints on: ! Tourism and Recreation, Hiking, Fly-fishing, Bait-fishing, Mountain Biking, Kayaking, off-road vehicle, cycling, canyoneering ! Bug life in and along the river ! Railroad policy ! Historic sites ! Ecology of the big and the small ! Impact on Fish, Birds, Bighorn Sheep, and other Wildlife ! Mining, oil and gas exploration, exploitation ! Agriculture and Irrigation ! State Hiway Patrol • Fire in the West • EIS – BLM – Public Lands Foundation • Financing the project – (Harvard Study from Dick Miller) • Lawsuits – incl. ROAR • Rail Road – Union Pacific’s role • Water and weather • Fish & Animals - Bighorn sheep • Indigenous plants, people, insects • Recreation Websites 6 Christo Art - OTR project - http://www.overtheriverinfo.com/ Christo and Jeanne-Claude site - http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/ Nat’l Wildlife Federation - http://www.nwf.org/ American Rivers - http://www.americanrivers.org/ Colorado State Government - http://www.colorado.gov/ Salida Performing Arts Organization - http://salidaarts.org/ Trout Unlimited Colorado - http://www.coloradotu.org/ Fremont Center for the Arts - http://www.fremontarts.org/ Xerxes - http://www.xerces.org/ Rags Over The River - http://www.roarcolorado.org/ Center for the American West - http://centerwest.org/ NRDC - http://www.nrdc.org/ National Mining Association - http://www.nma.org/ World Wildlife Fund - http://worldwildlifefund.org Audubon Society - http://www.audubon.org/ Western States Petroleum Association - http://www.wspa.org/ Sierra Club - http://www.sierraclub.org/ Wildland Fire Organizations - http://www.fws.gov/fire/ Coal Associations - http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/programs/energy/Coal Western States Center - http://www.westernstatescenter.org City of Salida, Colorado - http://cityofsalida.com/ Chaffee County Times - http://www.chaffeecountytimes.com/ Fremont County, Colorado - http://www.fremontco.com/ Music and Sound: We will play music, create scores, find and record additional music and sound for videos or other media, if possible, from our own class members. It is unusual to not find music that has been composed from inspiration coming from Christo’s art projects. 7 Books/ documents, media A different member of each team will read one of these books. All 4 members will read one book, their teamwork choice. Presentation Reports due on Sept 10. (15 minutes/team) http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_13?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field- keywords=christo+and+jeanne-claude&sprefix=Christo+and+J%2Cstripbooks%2C319 Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Prints and Objects (A Catalogue Raisonné) Hardcover – October 3, 2013 by Matthias Koddenberg (Author) , Jörg Schellmann (Editor) Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Over the River - Hardcover by Jonathan Fineberg (Author) , Wolfgang Volz (Photographer) & 2 more Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Through the Gates and Beyond Hardcover – Bargain Price by Jan Greenberg (Author) , Sandra Jordan (Author) 8 Albert and David Maysles with Antonio Ferrera, Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson 3 decades of films on Christo’s projects, including The Running Fence in California, Valley Curtain in Colorado, The Gates in NYC High Country News - http://www.hcn.org/ Film: Into the Wild (trailer, http://bit.ly/L9ymj) Jonathan Waterman - Running Dry: A Journey from Source to Sea Down the Colorado River Patricia Limerick – Something in the Soil, Ditch in Time John McPhee - Encounters with the ArchDruid Oliver Sacks Musicophilia how the brain processes music. -http://nyti.ms/oEGQP7 James Kahn, The Economic Approach to Environmental and Natural Resources, 3rd Edition, Don Miguel Ruiz - The 4 Agreements Annie Leonard The Story of Stuff by - http://www.storyofstuff.com/ Canyonlands Zephyr http://bit.ly/u8WQF4 URLs including videos from previous classes: Jigar Shah, Branson’s Carbon War Room http://www.carbonwarroom.com/ Virtual Reality Magazine - http://www.vrmag.org/ The New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/ The Media Channel - http://www.mediachannel.org/ Don Grusin - class videos - http://bit.ly/oUjoSK You can also view the videos from previous classes at www.dongrusin.com. Feel free to stream any of the music on my MUSIC page. Class Gear to be supplied by ATLAS Institute Video Cameras, Mac G-5 Computers and/or MacBook Pro (4-Gigs ram, Logic 9, access to Protools, Premier, Ableton, Reason software, USB midi keyboards, broadband internet capability for units running simultaneously, Final Cut Pro 7.03, mics, stands, cabling, and lighting for on- site production, (cables, stands, baffles, work stations, spaces), FTP software, 1 terabyte backup drive/team, (potentially 7 to 8 teams) Schedule of weekly events Class Syllabus TBU (refer to Fall Academic Calendar - dates TBD) Boot Camp 1st week of Fall Semester 2014, location and date TBD Week 1- August 27 – 1st class – introductions, team organization, reading assignments, see video of Christo & Jeanne-Claude, 15-minute team reports on due Sept 10th. Week 2 - September 1st, Guest - Jim Palmer – Running Fence, planning, trip to Arkansas River 3rd, Guest speakers-Jonita and Vince Davenport, Dick Miller 9