Organizations, institutions, and large groups of people function like biological organisms.  Certain spaces, certain architecture, certain walkways are the appendages, sensing organs, heart, brain and eyes of systems, like the university.  This collage project treats Texas State University's Fighting Stallions monument as a perceptual center of the school as a figurative organism.  It is the eye of the system.  It focuses our attention and directs us to contemplate particular information. 

 

This project asks us to present data to this "eye" in a highly conscious way, as artists do when they observe the world.  We break down the way data is input to the "eye" in 7 categories:

1. Sense

2. Observe

3.   Perceive

4. Interpret

5. Judge

6. Fear 

7. Imagine

We generate imagery and/or text for each category, accumulating information in the form of drawings, writings, pictures, and collage in long, nerve like tendrils that extend from the "eye's" center.  This process helps to slow down and evaluate the flow of information to the university organism as well as our position within it.

The resulting collage is a physical data document or record of slower, more thoughtful data flowing around the perceiving organs of the university body.

Data will remain anonymous.

Data will be fed through ai chats prompted to process all incoming data as sensory, observational, perceptual, interpretive, judging, fearing, or imagining inputs and processed as such.  We will evaluate the final state of each chat at the end of the collage exercise.