Curling in the squat rack is strictly prohibited in the gym world; a big no-no. Since you are only able to squat in this area, people get very angry when they see someone using it for other purposes, especially when you can curl literally anywhere else in the gym. So I took that action that is shunned upon and entered that prohibited area.
I was interested in investigating digital space and finding meaning in its seemingly random and volatile nature. The Library of Babel is a labyrinth of data using an algorithm to produce and locate any 3200 character combination of English letters, the coma, space, and period. I searched a few lines of text based upon a segment from David Benyon’s work Spaces of Interaction, Places for Experience on Digital space.
For the Discrete Intervention assignment, I looked for places where I was allowed to go, but where I shouldn’t be. There is no sign or notice that informs the person not to enter, however, social expectations alone prohibit entering
Andrea Aleman-Pastor
My discreet intervention was that I bringing a McDonalds meal into the realm of fine dinning. People are not accustomed to seeing someone eat their chicken mcnuggets on a plate with proper silverware and fancy glasses.
Based on information collected through the public forum Reddit, the most dangerous address in Guelph, Ontario was located and became my destination. This image highlights a collection of data used to locate a place I should not be as well as images of the place and a receipt from a purchase while there.
I went into a building – namely the University of Guelph Science Complex- in which I wouldn’t normally enter, or have any business entering. In doing this I broke a personal idea that as an art student, I am not ‘allowed’ to be in a science building. I left behind a dime as a breadcrumb of me being there.
This totally functional cupboard is practical in the sense that it is very deep and it can store many things. With such a practical space I would believe that the opening of the cupboard is much bigger than the size of a human body so you can actually reach to the far back, unfortunately it is not. The opening is only big enough fit your shoulders through while giving you a claustrophobic feeling.
In the project, Over Stepping Boundaries, I went through a friends browser history without his permission. Then I took a screen shot as proof of the event.
Intervening in a space I cannot fit.
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