Ivan A Martinez

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	<title>Ivan A Martinez  &#124;  Artist, Designer</title>
	<link>http://www.martinezivan.com</link>
	<description>Ivan A Martinez  &#124;  Artist, Designer</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 18:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>I Might Feel Differently About It Tomorrow</title>
				
		<link>http://www.martinezivan.com/I-Might-Feel-Differently-About-It-Tomorrow</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 18:55:24 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Ivan A Martinez  &#124;  Artist, Designer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Object, In Progress]]></category>

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		<description>Pine, MDO, Tyvek, Shop Light, Chalk
2012
Archive, Object, In Progress

The monument is as ubiquitous as any structure in the city, the dominant neoclassical form being the most associated with its typology. The plinth is a fixed, iconographic structure that acts as a place marker for the city as much as a place for commemorating.  The memorial in contrast is ephemeral by nature, the location is predetermined by the event and is never promised to be permanent.  An event happens within a specific location so the materialization must adjust to its surroundings, such as candles lit on a street corner for a shooting or a ghost bike tied to a lamp post.

This project tries to not only address the monument/memorial comparison, but also ideas of the temporal city and architectural phenomenology, the experience through sensory properties in reference to building materials. A traditional shipping crate made of MDO plywood, 1 x 4 boards, and Tyvek is built in the shape of a classical neoclassical monument plinth. Functionally the structure is meant to travel and withstand the circumstances of being handled and moved. The crate is a vessel to become a monument for anything or nothing. It adapts to display a story to any person, place, or thing. The structure contains as many modular parts as possible to be fully adjustable, including chalkboard surface for titles and icons. As so it also becomes an archive, collecting information and a piece of everything it has shown in the past.

Photos below show a monument to Jaruco. A project that is in progress. 

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		<title>No Discernible Saints</title>
				
		<link>http://www.martinezivan.com/No-Discernible-Saints</link>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:29:58 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Ivan A Martinez  &#124;  Artist, Designer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Object]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">2747907</guid>

		<description>Charcoal, Wax
2012
Object


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		<title>Seems Like A Good Day For The Stoop</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:27:52 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Ivan A Martinez  &#124;  Artist, Designer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Object, Print, In Progress]]></category>

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		<description>Birch, Nylon Webbing, Silkscreen
2011
Object, Print, In Progress

In many cities the stoop is not just an architectural typology, but also an institution. Within a simple construction, just a series of steps leading to the front door, acts as a place for interaction, relaxation, observance, a micro government for the block where people congregate for news and gossip. Seems Like A Good Day For The Stoop attempts to examine and recreate that phenomenon, detaching the stoop from the building. I designed a pressure fitted portable stoop consisting of 20 pieces, no tools needed. Within 10 minutes a fully functional stoop can be assembled indoors or outdoors.

Is the building essential for a series of steps to attain the properties of a stoop? Is it the location or the people inhabiting the structure that create the environment? It must be a mixture of both; an ownership and history of the architecture must exist. Therefore a portable stoop, a roaming community center, inherently will not succeed without that ownership, a known and established community.

A literal ownership has been assigned to the 20 pieces of the portable stoop. Every piece has been given to one family member or friend as a gift and social contract, that when needed the pieces will be temporarily returned to reassemble the stoop. With every piece numbered and assigned the parts are shipped to each participant with a limited edition print detailing the project outlines and the 19 others involved. Shipping the pieces inevitably adds the additional layer of history. Without any crate or box the parts are mailed as is, so shipping labels, dirt, marks, and handprints will begin to give a history and life to the stoop as it moves back and forth between itʼs owners.

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		<title>Always Been Bored</title>
				
		<link>http://www.martinezivan.com/Always-Been-Bored</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:16:52 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Ivan A Martinez  &#124;  Artist, Designer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Drawing, Robot, In Progress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">2473546</guid>

		<description>Graphite Drawing
2011
Drawing 22" x 30"
Drawing Robot In Progress


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		<title>Bike, Bike</title>
				
		<link>http://www.martinezivan.com/Bike-Bike</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:03:46 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Ivan A Martinez  &#124;  Artist, Designer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Drawing, Concept]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">1906658</guid>

		<description>Graphite Drawings
2011
32" x 32"
Sculpture Concept

Currently engineering a tandem bicycle that places the two riders face to face. One rider has to move backwards through space, relying on the partner to navigate correctly. The bicycle could move back and forth creating a heightened experience of mutual coordination and trust. Most importantly, the face-to-face orientation allows the riders to converse while still being able to acknowledge the other’s presence. 

&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1906658/Drawings_BIKEBIKE_905.jpg" width="900" height="907" width_o="900" height_o="907" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1906658/Drawings_BIKEBIKE_o.jpg" data-mid="14932639"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1906658/Drawings_BIKE_01_905.jpg" width="900" height="687" width_o="900" height_o="687" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1906658/Drawings_BIKE_01_o.jpg" data-mid="12740764"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
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		<title>Paso Moya: A Message Board</title>
				
		<link>http://www.martinezivan.com/Paso-Moya-A-Message-Board</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:10:24 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Ivan A Martinez  &#124;  Artist, Designer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Installation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">1901334</guid>

		<description>Wood, Metal Tubing, Chalkboard Paint, Chalk
2011
Installation
In collaboration with Laurel Bancroft for the GFRY Studio

In 1973, Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship began a decades long campaign of distrust between the citizens of Chile. Even between neighbors, the suspicion and uncertainty of government loyalties dismantled the core of many Chilean communities. This condition of incertitude continued long after a democratic system was introduced. Mending community ties was a gradual process, but in 2010 when an 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit the center of the country, residents had no choice but to rely and depend on neighbors again. Some of the worst damage occurred in the colonial city of Talca, 380 kilometers south of the capital city of Santiago. 

The GFRY studio visited Talca in the summer of 2011 and was lucky enough to be provided with the keys to a community center, the Sede Social, in Paso Moya -- a small industrial neighborhood in the southern region of Talca. The task was to help re-establish the feeling of trust and community in Paso Moya, and having access to a neutral location within the neighborhood was an important first step. 
The street front of the center is lined with a black iron fence intended to provided security and protection for the children playing in the front yard. The project proposed by architect Laurel Bancroft and designer Ivan Martinez was informed by this specific space.

The Message Board project was intended to re-purpose the fence as a space for interaction and not just exclusion. A grid of 35 blackboard painted plates were affixed to a new steel grid bolted to the original fence, creating a wall of writable surface. Additionally, a stencil of the neighborhood was painted on, highlighting every block and lot in the Paso Moya area. There is now a fixed location where residents can leave messages for each other, even directly by pointing to an exact neighbor’s lot. The vital feature for the message board is having a known, unchanging site. In the case of another disaster, the blackboards can serve as a rallying point for news and updates. 

The night in which the project was unveiled, the Paso Moya community wasted no time in relaying their hopes and dreams for the future of Talca. Within minutes, the blackboards were filled with messages of good will to their fellow neighbors, optimistically looking to mend the divide they’ve experienced for countless years.

&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_35_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_35_o.jpg" data-mid="9415491"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_drawing_1_905.jpg" width="905" height="672" width_o="2048" height_o="1521" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_drawing_1_o.jpg" data-mid="11281335"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;

&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_5_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_5_o.jpg" data-mid="9419861"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_9_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_9_o.jpg" data-mid="9415746"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_12_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_12_o.jpg" data-mid="9415748"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_17_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_17_o.jpg" data-mid="9415753"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_logo_1_905.jpg" width="905" height="678" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_logo_1_o.jpg" data-mid="11281347"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_sign_1_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_sign_1_o.jpg" data-mid="11281532"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_20_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_20_o.jpg" data-mid="9415758"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_22_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_22_o.jpg" data-mid="9415760"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_26_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_26_o.jpg" data-mid="9415764"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_29_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_29_o.jpg" data-mid="9415770"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_31_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_31_o.jpg" data-mid="9415773"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_35_1_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_35_1_o.jpg" data-mid="9415775"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_36_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_production_36_o.jpg" data-mid="9415778"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;

&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_opening_1_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_opening_1_o.jpg" data-mid="9415784"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_opening_3_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_opening_3_o.jpg" data-mid="9415785"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_opening_5_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_opening_5_o.jpg" data-mid="9415788"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_opening_7_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_opening_7_o.jpg" data-mid="9415792"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_opening_9_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_opening_9_o.jpg" data-mid="9415795"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_opening_10_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1901334/FENCE_opening_10_o.jpg" data-mid="9415797"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
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		<title>OBJECT PLACE MEMORY : OBJECTO LUGAR MEMORIA</title>
				
		<link>http://www.martinezivan.com/OBJECT-PLACE-MEMORY-OBJECTO-LUGAR-MEMORIA</link>

		<comments>http://www.martinezivan.com/following/martinezivan.com/OBJECT-PLACE-MEMORY-OBJECTO-LUGAR-MEMORIA</comments>

		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:57:13 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Ivan A Martinez  &#124;  Artist, Designer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Archive, Object, In Progress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">1900516</guid>

		<description>Urethane, Concrete, LED Lightbulb
2011
Archive, Object, In Progress

In the summer of 2011 I traveled to Talca, Chile, a colonial town in the center of the country destroyed by a massive earthquake the year prior. My visit came at a time when the residents still wrestled with the loss of their possessions and homes. One of my main concerns as a foreigner from the United States was the expectation and inability to provided exact replacements for these objects, although this was not my intention. My project OBJECTO LUGAR MEMORIA had two objectives. One was to catalog and archive the objects and spaces lost from the earthquake. Second, and more importantly, was to archive the memories associated with the object and or space. My belief is that the losses of a material object or space will eventual lead to the loss of a memory. We are constantly being reminded of our past by the surroundings we keep, and perhaps we don’t need the original “thing”, just a reminder, a breadcrumb. 

The project took place in Paso Moya, a small neighborhood in Talca. I traveled the streets with a portable casting kit and one basic building material, cement. (Many of the community members expressed how they would like their future homes to be made from the solid and reliable characteristics of cement, instead of the traditional adobe technique.) As I met with the residents we sat, ate, and talked for hours, at times multiple days, about the earthquake, their experience, and their loss. At the end of the visit, and using their help, I would cast a fully functional lamp made from concrete. My expectation is that although I cannot replace what they lost, I could provide a reminder, a breadcrumb, to those memories. The lamp, as they use it from day to day, will remind them of our conversation, which will in turn remind them of the missing object/space, and finally to those connected memories. 


&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_3_lamps_OFF_new_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_3_lamps_OFF_new_o.jpg" data-mid="15785699"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_3_lamps_ON_905.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_3_lamps_ON_o.jpg" data-mid="9412065"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;

&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_top_view_parts_1_905.jpg" width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_top_view_parts_1_o.jpg" data-mid="9412106"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_top_view_box_1_905.jpg" width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_top_view_box_1_o.jpg" data-mid="9412108"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Holding_Mold_3_905.jpg" width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Holding_Mold_3_o.jpg" data-mid="9412114"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Holding_Mold_1B_905.jpg" width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Holding_Mold_1B_o.jpg" data-mid="9416822"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Holding_Mold_4_905.jpg" width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Holding_Mold_4_o.jpg" data-mid="9412131"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Holding_Mold_2B_905.jpg" width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Holding_Mold_2B_o.jpg" data-mid="9416829"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;

&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Beatriz_1_905.jpg" width="900" height="598" width_o="900" height_o="598" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Beatriz_1_o.jpg" data-mid="9412241"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Beatriz_2_905.jpg" width="900" height="598" width_o="900" height_o="598" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Beatriz_2_o.jpg" data-mid="9412246"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Beatriz_4_905.jpg" width="900" height="598" width_o="900" height_o="598" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Beatriz_4_o.jpg" data-mid="9412247"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Beatriz_6_905.jpg" width="900" height="598" width_o="900" height_o="598" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Beatriz_6_o.jpg" data-mid="9412249"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Beatriz_8_905.jpg" width="900" height="598" width_o="900" height_o="598" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Beatriz_8_o.jpg" data-mid="9412253"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Beatriz_10_905.jpg" width="900" height="598" width_o="900" height_o="598" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/1900516/OBJECTOLUGARMEMORIA_Beatriz_10_o.jpg" data-mid="9412255"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
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		<title>Still Remains: City of Abandon</title>
				
		<link>http://www.martinezivan.com/Still-Remains-City-of-Abandon</link>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:29:55 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Ivan A Martinez  &#124;  Artist, Designer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Installation, Website, Concept]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">185756</guid>

		<description>CAD Models, Plastic, Video, Action Script
2009
Installation, Print, Website Concept

Still Remains is an architectural project which catalogs abandoned buildings and restructures them into a fictitious urban city through the development of city plans, a physical 1/60 scale model and an interactive virtual landscape.

The objective of this project is to examine the amount of desolate structures that punctuate our neighborhoods and reconfigure them into a symbol of potential. The buildings within the new city will include ruins from past cultures, unfinished construction projects, and buildings destroyed through natural and man-made disasters. Through creating a fictitious urban plan of forgotten buildings I will examine the magnitude of empty structures that exist.

The hope is that these vacant structures will be rebuilt and inhabited so they can serve the purpose in which was intended. Questions can be asked to why that may or may not be possible, or how to revitalize such blight, in the end an awareness of our architectural landscape and its failures will be gained.

Online environment 
&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/185756/STILL_REMAINS_web_w900_1_905.jpg" width="900" height="506" width_o="900" height_o="506" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/185756/STILL_REMAINS_web_w900_1_o.jpg" data-mid="9384292"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;

During the research I plan to investigate buildings in select cities and continue to expand worldwide to collect data and photos on these structures both residential and commercial. The methods in creating a tangible 1/60 scale city will follow technical and traditional procedures to urban planning. As a factory in Detroit, Michigan becomes resituated within the new city it will be given space in the Industrial District, just as a condominium from Miami, Florida will live in the Residential District.

City of Abandon area map
&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/185756/STILL_REMAINS_web_w900_2_905.jpg" width="900" height="506" width_o="900" height_o="506" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/185756/STILL_REMAINS_web_w900_2_o.jpg" data-mid="9384303"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
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		<title>Ivan and Matthew VS. Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant</title>
				
		<link>http://www.martinezivan.com/Ivan-and-Matthew-VS-Turkey-Point-Nuclear-Power-Plant</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:07:57 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Ivan A Martinez  &#124;  Artist, Designer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Installation, Sculpture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">156850</guid>

		<description>Wood, D.D. Motor, Battery, Stereo, Light
2003
Installation 18'x 5' x 5'
In collaboration with Matthew Cox

We were given the chance to make an on-site installation in Homestead Florida, very close to the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant. In fact the space we were given was just across the bay from the power plant that generates 1,400 million watts of electricity and supplies energy to about 450,000 homes. We thought about other sources of energy, and decided to try powering our own city with the most archaic method, wind. The anti-state-of-the-art windmill structure creates enough energy to power light and prerecorded sounds of the city, giving life to the street grid of 
Miami-Dade within the body of the windmill.



&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/156850/IVAN_-_MATT_VS_TURKEY_POINT_1.jpg" width="439" height="663" width_o="439" height_o="663" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/156850/IVAN_-_MATT_VS_TURKEY_POINT_1_o.jpg" data-mid="680240"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/156850/IVAN_-_MATT_VS_TURKEY_POINT_2.jpg" width="439" height="663" width_o="439" height_o="663" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/156850/IVAN_-_MATT_VS_TURKEY_POINT_2_o.jpg" data-mid="680169"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/156850/IVAN_-_MATT_VS_TURKEY_POINT_3.jpg" width="446" height="664" width_o="446" height_o="664" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/156850/IVAN_-_MATT_VS_TURKEY_POINT_3_o.jpg" data-mid="680170"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/156850/IVAN_-_MATT_VS_TURKEY_POINT_4.jpg" width="663" height="439" width_o="663" height_o="439" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/156850/IVAN_-_MATT_VS_TURKEY_POINT_4_o.jpg" data-mid="680171"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/156850/IVAN_-_MATT_VS_TURKEY_POINT_5.jpg" width="663" height="439" width_o="663" height_o="439" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/156850/IVAN_-_MATT_VS_TURKEY_POINT_5_o.jpg" data-mid="680179"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/156850/IVAN_-_MATT_VS_TURKEY_POINT_6.jpg" width="663" height="439" width_o="663" height_o="439" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/156850/IVAN_-_MATT_VS_TURKEY_POINT_6_o.jpg" data-mid="680181"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/156850/IVAN_-_MATT_VS_TURKEY_POINT_7.jpg" width="663" height="439" width_o="663" height_o="439" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13342/156850/IVAN_-_MATT_VS_TURKEY_POINT_7_o.jpg" data-mid="680183"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
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		<title>Neither Can Read</title>
				
		<link>http://www.martinezivan.com/Neither-Can-Read</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:02:02 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Ivan A Martinez  &#124;  Artist, Designer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">156839</guid>

		<description>Silkscreen &#38; Spraypaint Stencil
2006
Print 22" x 15"

Those on either side of the Caribbean, who promote antiquated laws and rhetoric, basically...can't read the writing on the wall.

This project is part of a 75 print edition portfolio created by the different workshops within The Consejo Nacional de Talleres (National Printmakers' Council). The title of the portfolio is "Creando Fuerza (1)"



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