New Monuments Task Force

https://newmonumentstaskforce.org/Marble-Media-Lab

Marble and Media: Digital Activations of Public Memory
Zero1 Creative Laboratory
Golden Gate Park Music Concourse
Project Artists: Cheyenne Concepcion, Camila Magrane, Hannah Scott

Marble and Media: Digital Activations of Public Memory is a ZERO1 creative laboratory co-led by artists Cheyenne Concepcion and Camila Magrane in collaboration with New Monuments Taskforce and emerging artists from across the Bay Area. The laboratory workshops led by Concepcion and Magrane empowered artists to use New Media tools to reckon with toppled monuments at a site of protest in San Francisco. The work made in the workshop was presented as a “guerilla” public exhibition/AR Walking tour. Below is one project example:

Speculative History by Hannah Scott
Video and project map courtesy of Cheyenne Concepcion

Marble and Media Project Map 

Lab Workshop Description:
2020 was a tumultuous year for SF’s monuments. Last year, following a national reckoning around race and representation, the toppling of X SF monuments across the city, New Monuments Taskforce emerged as an artistic tactic to engage a critical conversation on the city’s civic monuments and the forces that uphold them. Guised as a fantastical municipal agency, New Monuments Taskforce is a platform engaged in the dialogue, design and development of New Monuments. We create space for critical conversations, radical research and experimenting with new ways of memorialization.

This workshop does just that. Over the 6-week workshop, as a group, had critical conversations on memorialization techniques from our Nation’s past in order to build on these themes for the future. Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse was a site of investigation and experimentation. Using Augmented Reality, this workshop tests experimental methods of representation and analysis while challenging preconceived notions of monuments and how history gets written. Artists learned from examples of artists, writers and designers whose work also reckons with themes of memory and place. The final projects will consist of individual works that will be deployed in situ, as part of a public group exhibition.