Kwantlen University College Visit

On Wednesday, Jan. 21.09 Lorna, Cease and I drove out to Kwantlen University College, Surrey Campus - 12666, 72nd Avenue, Surrey, BC just 4blks from the project site. We met with instructor Sibeal Foyle, and her drawing class to invite them into the design process. Students agreed to design the steel cutouts that would be welded on to the surface of the the Talking Poles. We left with the extreme excitement over the students participation, as they seemed like a very interesting group of people with exceptional talent. View our presentation to the class below:

Testing EMF

Bobbi Kozinuk, is the artist designing the electronics of the project. We drove out to the site Sunday Jan. 25, 2009 to conduct some tests to see how much power we could draw from the transmission lines. Bobbi coiled copper wire to measure readings. The voltage readings were all over the place ranging from .15 to 14.008. While out conducting these tests we met with neighbors curious with what we were doing. A man named Ovare, introduced himself. He had some very interesting ideas for building sound sculpture from plastic tubing. I'll have to visit him again. Bobbi and I left the site with a lot of questions. We will return next week to conduct more readings. The pictures below show Bobbi with testing materials.

Site Visit

On Friday, Jan. 23, 2009 we drove out to the Serpentine Greenway, Surrey, BC, CA for a site visit. We want to introduce Mike and Cheryl our fabrication specialists from i.e. Creative [www.iecreative.ca] to the locations where the Talking Poles would be placed. We were able to walk along the path North and South of 68th Avenue and make the final decisions as to why and where we would place the sculpture. Our rationale for choosing these locations was that they are the only places the City of Surrey would place benches without fear of vandalism.

We choose to place the pole within site of each other and made a conscious decision to do some tests to see how far the sound would travel and to involve the people living close to the poles for tests.