Volume 1, Number 2

FIRST RECIEPT!!
The first of hopefully mountains of papers arrived today.
From my friend Andrea in Ireland.
Spread the word around the world.
Send newspapers, join my blog, send comments and pictures of buildings.
the address is below:

Volume 1, Number 1

In this time of globally evolving media, a social and cultural icon is dying. As computers and mobile phones continue to gain steam in the information age, a truly physical and tangible link to the world as well as our local communities is disappearing fast, the newspaper is soon to become a thing of the past. I propose that over the next few months i will gather newspapers from all over the world. They will be shredded and used to form blocks of pulp representing buildings from a “quintessential” global village. Each building will then be used to create a permanent impression in blown glass which ironically will destroy the original paper form. The result will be preservation of the form of the item, but loss of the information/material that spawned that form both literally and figuratively.

The papers will be gathered through the use of a blog...the new media trend for global information. The blog will be named: “The Village Globe, a New(s)paper Project” and will be used to spread the word about the piece and its intentions and to record the interactions that will take place on a global scale in order to realize this work.


This is the proposal for work I intend to create for a show called "Global Village" that will open in January 2010. For more info on the show go HERE.

If you would like to participate in this project just leave comments, send pictures but most of all send me newspapers. and spread the word around the world!!!
i would like to have ten newspapers from each participating country, so send me ten or send me one and i'll accumulate what i can. i will keep posting a master list of paper's that i have so when i have enough, participants needn't spend more time or money mailing papers. however i encourage people to continue posting comments including pictures of their homes or favorite buildings from their home countries. descriptive information is helpful.

please send newspapers to:

Gerrit Rietveld Academie
ATTN: Marc Barreda
Frederik Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam









Thanks for your support!

Sincerely,

Marc Barreda