I recently ran into this mini project from students of FEI Jun‘s media lab at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (courtesy of NO+CH). They call them “micro-observations”, and according to the students, serve “not merely as a magnification of the thing itself, but as an enlargement of the act of noticing. ‘Micro-observations’ bring about not only a paying attention to the unnecessary, but in revisiting these objects the transformation of their semantic meaning.” Nice public intervention~
点击图片查看箭头指向的物体 Click on the images to see enlarged object
“微观”公共艺术项目
材料：水、粉笔、现成品
人们似乎只习惯关注宏观风景，而忽略身边的细微之物，尤其是在公共环境中。指向性的标识符号往往对人产生直觉性的吸引力，我们在公共空间中使用粉笔、水等创建了临时性的导视符号，用于指向日常环境中的一些微小的物件，墙角的昆虫躯体、地上干枯的残花、马路上散落的烟蒂…叠加的标识使得这些平常无奇的细节被人为的放大，其实被放大的不是物件本身，而是人们的关注，“微观”导致的不只是一次可有可无的关注，被关注的那些物这样的再访中被转化了语义。作为对于特定公共空间的一次微小和瞬间的干预，“微观”企图引发“再访－再现－再定义”的感知体验。
参与艺术家 Participating artists：费俊 FEI Jun、尚钰 SHANG Yu、宋思琪 SONG Siqi、张宝珠 ZHANG Baozhu
时间 posted on: 18 November 2010 | 
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November 18th, 2010 - 20:46
nice, I like the project. it seems that after your obs. on ballsy – the village, interventions and baozi, wild seeding and this, time is coming for a homeshop new edition on public space … and time to go global too? i was recently discussing with someone..talking about western african cities. He was saying that there is no real public space in those cities, but primarily because there is no private space. we already talked a bit about this issue, is there anything private anymore? but convergently it seems difficult to have a real public space without having the possibility of being anonymous. so, what are the borders or private and public?
November 23rd, 2010 - 00:43
i don’t know enough to say global yet, but at least to beixinqiao! we’re moving very very soon, i think will be done by the time you arrive (hurrah)!
the public/private question is the perennial one, yes—lurking about obliquely and/or in the face. these days even the thoughts of ballsy find their way around a public/private question—wait until you get here, hope we can talk more…
November 23rd, 2010 - 00:50
that’s a super news! can’t wait to see the new place!