Third Year Portfolio

Jessie Gemmer 2008-2009

Map- Road to Nowhere

Field Lantern: Pinhole cameras documenting light.

Appalachian Trail Shelter

Memorial For Lost Cemeteries

Story Telling Circle

Site Plan

Card_span

Create a span with one deck of cards. It must reach 40�, only touching down in 2� zones at each extreme and be strong enough to support the weight of another deck of cards.

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Cincinnati,OH

(Land Use and Development Institute + Center for Land Art and Earth Observatories + / (24 Apartments + 2 Libarys + Map Room + Meeting Rooms + Computational Resources + 24 / (Cincinnati) =

Dangerous Supplement + Extended Site)

4 Studio Spaces + Lecture Hall)

The Entropy of 1829 – RIOTS BREAK OUT AS WHITES ATTACK BLACKS IN THE CITY. 1,200 BLACKS LEAVE THE CITY AND RESETTLE IN CANADA. 1836 – JAMES BURNEY, WHO PUBLISHED THE ANTI-SLAVERY WEEKLY”THE PHILANTHROPIST,” IS ATTACKED BY A MOB OF 700. THEY MOVE ON, SPREADING THROUGH THE BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS WITH VIOLENCE AND HATE.

ENTROPY [CINCINNATI, OH]

“THE FUTURE IS BUT THE OBSOLETE IN REVERSE” VLADMIR NABAKOV

THERE IS NO “I” IN TEAM!

THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE CINCINNATI REDS.

APRIL 2001 - TIMOTHY THOMAS, 19, IS FATALLY SHOT WHILE RUNNING FROM POLICE OFFICERS. HE IS UNARMED. HE IS REACHING TO PULL UP HIS PANTS. HE HAD 49 WARRANTS FOR HIS ARREST. HE WAS THE FIFTEENTH BLACK MALE SHOT IN PURSUIT IN SIX YEARS. THREE DAYS OF RIOTS ENSUE. BUSINESSES ARE DESTROYED. HOMES ARE LOOTED. NON VIOLENT PROTESTERS AT THOMAS’ FUNERAL ARE GUNNED DOWN WITH BEAN BAGS AND TEAR GAS. OUTRAGE ROARS THROUGH THE STREETS OF CINCINNATI AND THE HEARTS OF THE COUNTRY. RACIAL VIOLENCE IS BACK WITH A VENGEANCE AND IT IS THE SEXIEST THING TO HAPPEN TO THE NATIONAL MEDIA IN YEARS.

THIS IS A PICTURE OF PEOPLE PROTESTING IN THE RIOTS OF 2001.

THIS SIGN READS TIRED OF TALKING!! (STOP KILLING (US) OR ELSE!!!!)

THE AMERICAN SIGN MUSEUM IS IN CINCINNATI.

THERE ARE 1323 REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS IN CINCINNATI.

THIS IS WHAT SIGNS LOOK LIKE.

THIS IS WHAT SEX OFFENDERS LOOK LIKE.

I GUESS THE HOBOS LIKED CINCINNATI IN 1910 AND DECIDED TO STAY.

THE PEOPLE OF CINCINNATI LOVE ART. ON THE NEXT SLIDE YOU WILL MEET CARL LINDNER. CARL IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S RICHEST MEN. HE IS FROM CINCINNATI. HE WAS IN THE DAIRY BUSINESS. THEN HE OWNED THE CINCINNATI REDS. HE WAS THE CHEIF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF CHIQUITA BANANA BRANDS INTERNATIONAL WHEN THE COMPANY BEGAN MAKING PAYMENTS TO COLOMBIAN TERRORIST GROUPS. BESIDES THAT HE’S A GREAT GUY. HE DONATES MONEY TO CHRISTIAN CHURCH FUNDS, CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FUNDS, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND ONCE TO A FUND THAT HELPED PROSECUTE THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER OF CINCINNATI AND ITS DIRECTOR, DENNIS BARRIE, ON CHARGES OF “PANDERING OBSCENITY” FOR SHOWING AN EXHIBIT OF ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE’S PHOTOGRAPHY. IT WAS THE FIRST EVER PROSECUTION OF ITS KIND, AND SET A GREAT PRECEDENT FOR CENSORSHIP IN THE FUTURE!

(CARL LINDNER IS THE GENTLEMAN ON THE L

THE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE GENTLEMAN ON T EXHIBIT)

[MOST OF IT]

THIS IS A CHILI CUPCAKE. THE CITY OF CINCINNATI IS FAMOUS FOR ITS CHILI. OF ALL THE FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM CINCINNATI, 18 WERE MEN -

3 WERE PRESIDENTS. [THE ULTIMATE SUPERVISOR]

INCIDENTALLY, NONE OF THE THREE WOMEN INCLUDED WERE CASHIERS.

a City

LEFT.

THE RIGHT WAS PART OF THE CENSORED

THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE CINCINNATI ROLLERGIRLS

THIS IS A PICTURE OF POLICE ARRESTING A PROTESTER.

THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE POLICE BLOCKADE SET UP TO STOP PROTESTERS AT TIMOTHY THOMAS’ FUNERAL.

VIOLENCE IS RELATIVE

THIS IS A PICTURE OF A WOMAN NAMED DEBBIE WITH A HOMELESS MAN IN CINCINNATI. SHE POSTED IT ON FLICKR SO OTHERS COULD SHARE IN HER EXPERIENCE.

THIS IS A PICTURE OF “THE BIG HAND OUT HOBO CONVENTION” IN 1910.

IT TOOK PLACE IN CINCINNATI.

THIS IS THE ROEBLING SUSPENSION BRIDGE.

THIS IS THE HOMELESS TENT COMMUNITY UNDER THE BRIDGE. IT IS CALLED QUEEN CITY

THANKS, DEBBIE!

[HIS SIGN READSI NEED YOUR HELP. WILL YOU HELP ME AND THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS FOR CAREING FOR ME.]

THIS IS WHERE THEY LIVE.

THIS IS A MAP OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN CINCINNATI. IN CASE YOU DON’T MAKE IT TO THE SIGN MUSEUM, CINCINNATI HAS ENDOWED ITS CITIZENS WITH A SWEEPING ARRAY OF CENTERS FOR CULTURAL GROWTH. FOR EXAMPLE: THE TWO MAY OR MAY NOT BE RELATED

[RED = OFFENSE AGAINST CHILDREN YELLOW = RAPE BLUE = SEXUAL OFFENSE GREEN = OTHER OFFENSE]

THIS IS CONTEMPORARY CINCINNATI STREET ART AND ANOTHER ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE. I GUESS EVEN IF CARL LINDNER AND THE CINCINNATI “CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY VALUES” DIDN’T SAVE THEIR TOWN FROM OBSCENITY AT LEAST THEY CAN BLAME ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE!

THE CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM, THE CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, THE AMERICAN CLASSICAL MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM, THE CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST AND HUMANITY EDUCATION, THE CINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM, HERITAGE VILLAGE MUSEUM, CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER AT UNION TERMINAL

[RED = DISCHARGES TO WATER ORANGE = SUPERFUND SITES BLUE = AIR RELEASES GREEN = HAZARDOUS WASTE]

THIS IS THE LIST OF THE SEVEN MOST OFFENSIVE PHOTGRAPHS IN THE BANNED EXHIBIT.

THIS IS A LIST OF FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM CINCINNATI -

* “JESSE MCBRIDE, 1976” - A NUDE BOY * “HONEY, 1976” - A GIRL WITH HER GENITALS EXPOSED * FIVE PHOTOS DEPICTING TYPICAL LATE 1970S HOMOEROTIC OR SADOMASOCHISTIC IMAGES. - “SELF PORTRAIT, 1978)” - THE SIGNATURE SELF PORTRAIT OF MAPPLETHORPE WITH A WHIP INSERTED INTO HIS ANUS. - “JIM AND TOM, SAUSALITO, 1978” -A DUO OF A MAN URINATING IN ANOTHER MAN’S MOUTH - A FISTING SHOT OF A MAN INSERTED IN ANOTHER MAN’S RECTUM. - A CLOSE UP OF A MAN WITH A FINGER INSERTED INTO THE HEAD OF HIS PENIS - A SHOT OF A MAN WITH A CYLINDER INSERTED IN HIS RECTUM

William Howard Taft – President of the United States, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Henry Harrison – President of the United States Carmen Electra – entertainer Bootsy Collins – musician Jerry Springer – talk show host Roger Staubach – football player Barry Larkin – baseball player Ken Griffey, Jr. – baseball player (born in Pennsylvania, raised in Cincinnati) Pete Rose – baseball player Frank Duveneck – painter

Ulysses S. Grant – President of the United States, General Powel Crosley Jr. – inventor, industrialist, and entrepreneur Steven Spielberg – producer/director Ted Turner – Media Mogul Roy Rogers – The Singing Cowboy Andy Williams – singer Doris Day – actress William McGuffey – 19th century writer of the McGuffey Readers Daniel Carter Beard – founder of the Boy Scouts of America Harriet Beecher Stowe – author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Thomas Worthington Whittredge – painter

THE MOST COMMON OCUPATION FOR MALES IN CINCINNATI, 2007 - MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION

THE MOST COMMON OCCUPATION FOR FEMALES IN CINCINNATI, 2007- CASHIER

THE END THIS IS MARTHA. SHE WAS THE LAST PASSENGER PIGEON TO LIVE. ALSO THE LAST TO DIE. SHE DIED IN THE CINCINNATI ZOO, MARKING THE END OF THE PASSENGER PIGEON. FOR SOME REASON CINCINNATI IS NOT FAMOUS FOR THIS. A REAL LIVE SPECIES WENT EXTINCT HERE! THAT IS A BETTER BRAGGING POINT THAN CHILI CUPCAKES I THINK.

CINCINNATI ALSO BOASTS AN ANATOMICALLY CORRECT STALLION ON TOP OF A SIGN FOR A FLEA MARKET, A MAN MADE OF DUCT WORK, AND THIS REALLY COOL SLIDE. [THAT WAS A PUN]

Cincinnati, OH

Lecture Hall/Auditorium Plan

Lecture Hall/Auditorium Section

Lecture Hall/Auditorium Model

House + Studio/Apartment Plan Perspective

House + Studio/Apartment Elevations

Library + Computer Resources + Map Room Plan

Library + Computer Resources + Map Room Elevation

Library + Computer Resources + Map Room Plan Perspective

Site Plan

Extended Site for Ground Art Display Prairie