Peggy Weil

RODEN CRATER WEBSITE

Original site: 1996-2001

www.rodencrater.org

If you click on the above link, you will get a page with a view of Roden Crater and the caption: Site Under Construction. That is partly true: Roden Crater is under construction, but the website was completed in 1996 and online until 2003. It was taken down in an attempt to stem the tide of uninvited enthusiasts to the actual site. Some of it is viewable on the internet archive.

The site began in 1995 as an inquiry from the Dia Foundation to document the site's evolution on CD-ROM. At the invitation of Alyce Dissette from 501c3 Inc. I entered into discussion with her and with Michael Govan, then the Director fo the Dia Foundation, about the possibility of making a CD-ROM documenting Roden Crater. Although I'd made CD-ROMs, I suggested that they consider a website (a novel suggestion in 1995) as a website, unlike a CD-ROM, was dynamic and could grow in parallel with the actual site. I was invited to visit the crater that spring and meet the team working on the project. Turrell is a man of many stories and I listened until I heard a thread echoing through all of them. I organized the site with a vertical “spine” of images that spanned two states central to Turrell's work: From Inside Looking Out to Outside Looking In.

The seven images making up the “spine” each served as chapter headings leading to articles and imagery along that spectrum. The top three subjects were about the project itself, Outside Looking In. Turrell often referred to the crater as an eye, as an instrument to harvest light, so the eye led to material describing the Roden Crater Project. A topo map of the crater designated the section leading to the plans and construction, Roden Crater Construction. One of Turrell's many aerial photographs of the crater marked Roden Crater Landscape.The fourth, or central, image - equinox light piercing a hole in an Indian ruin – showed the crossing over from the exterior view to an interior view. This section described a series of spaces that inspired or informed Turrell's work. The final three images are from a favorite image of Turrell's, a medieval woodcut depicting a person peering out of a starry dome into reality, and that reality pierced with pin holes of light. The first section, No Image, No Object, No Focus, was an abridged catalogue of Turrell's artwork. Seeing Yourself See contained writings about his interest in perceptual psychology. Finally, Holes in Reality contained autobiographical narratives of light and flight from Turrell's childhood.

The original site was made possible through Grants from Dia Center for the Arts,
Lannan Foundation, and the AT&T Foundation.

The producing organizations were Dia Center For The Arts in association with 501C3 Inc. and Kaufman Patricof Enterprises (KPE).
Executive Producer Michael Govan
Senior Producers Alyce Dissette and Peggy Weil
Production Contributors Jeff Kozera and Sara Tucker

PWEIL CURRENT IMMERSIVE JOURNALISM/GAMES WEBSITES/CD-ROMs ARCHIVE BIO HeadsUP! Cinepuzzle MrMind / The Blurring Test USC-IMD Blog Gone Gitmo Wall Jumpers IPSRESS File Mauerkrankheit/Wallsickness The Redistrcting Game E.L.E.C.T. Roden Crater Website Moving Puzzle TSFF Commission Silly Noisy House Five Past Midnight Weatherium Asphalt Poetry M.I.T. Architecture Machine Camera Obscura Spectacolor At Sea House 11A Animation 3D		RODEN CRATER WEBSITE Original site: 1996-2001 www.rodencrater.org If you click on the above link, you will get a page with a view of Roden Crater and the caption: Site Under Construction. That is partly true: Roden Crater is under construction, but the website was completed in 1996 and online until 2003. It was taken down in an attempt to stem the tide of uninvited enthusiasts to the actual site. Some of it is viewable on the internet archive. The site began in 1995 as an inquiry from the Dia Foundation to document the site's evolution on CD-ROM. At the invitation of Alyce Dissette from 501c3 Inc. I entered into discussion with her and with Michael Govan, then the Director fo the Dia Foundation, about the possibility of making a CD-ROM documenting Roden Crater. Although I'd made CD-ROMs, I suggested that they consider a website (a novel suggestion in 1995) as a website, unlike a CD-ROM, was dynamic and could grow in parallel with the actual site. I was invited to visit the crater that spring and meet the team working on the project. Turrell is a man of many stories and I listened until I heard a thread echoing through all of them. I organized the site with a vertical “spine” of images that spanned two states central to Turrell's work: From Inside Looking Out to Outside Looking In. The seven images making up the “spine” each served as chapter headings leading to articles and imagery along that spectrum. The top three subjects were about the project itself, Outside Looking In. Turrell often referred to the crater as an eye, as an instrument to harvest light, so the eye led to material describing the Roden Crater Project. A topo map of the crater designated the section leading to the plans and construction, Roden Crater Construction. One of Turrell's many aerial photographs of the crater marked Roden Crater Landscape.The fourth, or central, image - equinox light piercing a hole in an Indian ruin – showed the crossing over from the exterior view to an interior view. This section described a series of spaces that inspired or informed Turrell's work. The final three images are from a favorite image of Turrell's, a medieval woodcut depicting a person peering out of a starry dome into reality, and that reality pierced with pin holes of light. The first section, No Image, No Object, No Focus, was an abridged catalogue of Turrell's artwork. Seeing Yourself See contained writings about his interest in perceptual psychology. Finally, Holes in Reality contained autobiographical narratives of light and flight from Turrell's childhood. The original site was made possible through Grants from Dia Center for the Arts, Lannan Foundation, and the AT&T Foundation. The producing organizations were Dia Center For The Arts in association with 501C3 Inc. and Kaufman Patricof Enterprises (KPE). Executive Producer Michael Govan Senior Producers Alyce Dissette and Peggy Weil Production Contributors Jeff Kozera and Sara Tucker .