May 2011, Cambridge, MIT FAST Festival: Liquid Archive
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas conducted research on archival material on The CAVS Charles River Project at MIT in 1972. The project was led by Gyorgy Kepes and involved many unrealised river project proposals by artists in the Center for Advanced Visual Studies.
‘Besides the sky, the river is the only aspect of our urban environment that has not yet been parcelled out into real estate or butchered by human insensitivity and carelessness. It suggests far-away places and distant memories and thus gives to the urban citizens a most needed sense of freedom.’ Gyorgy Kepes, Artist, MIT, 1972
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas made an unrealised project proposal for the Charles River. This proposal aimed to enable people to really get in and on the river, whereas they are currently discouraged from doing so by physical barriers and pollution issues.
For MIT’s 150th anniversary celebrations in the FAST Festival in May 2011, Gediminas Urbonas worked with Nader Tehrani to present Liquid Archive – an inflatable screen floating on the River Charles with images projected onto it from the 1972 CAVS Charles River Project.
Nader Tehrani & Gediminas Urbonas, Liquid Archive, Charles River, Cambridge, US
Nader Tehrani & Gediminas Urbonas, Liquid Archive, Charles River, Cambridge, US
Nader Tehrani & Gediminas Urbonas, Liquid Archive, Charles River, Cambridge, US
Nader Tehrani & Gediminas Urbonas, Liquid Archive, Charles River, Cambridge, US