Projects >> Purdue Collective of Installation Artists
Original Idea
Purdue CIA is an experiment in group organization. We strive to be as much of a non-hierarchical group (aka a "collective") as is possible. I created the group in the summer of 2006 because I needed help implementing some projects to "alter public space."
I first created the Purdue CIA website and included a registration form to collect emails. Then I sidewalk chalked all over Purdue University messages like, "Want to alter public space? Want to meet excitingly creative peers? Want to live deliberately and help others do the same? Visit Purdue-CIA.com"
We now have 140+ members. We meet biweekly to brainstorm fun ideas and discuss implementation.
In the last months of 2007 we started the Purdue CIA wiki to collaborate online and create a hyperlinked knowledge repository.
Mission
We wish to live deliberately and among the impassioned, to feel the miraculous and be humbled by the mystery. Playfully spreading joie de vivre we enliven public space and cherish the following:
- Helping others live consciously
- Creating windows out of normalcy
- Expressing enormity and
- Spreading smiles with innocent tomfoolery