https://faydarmawi.com Fay Darmawi Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:36:06 +0000 https://faydarmawi.com en https://faydarmawi.com/Left-side-Navigation Tue, 14 Jan 2020 01:20:22 +0000 Fay Darmawi https://faydarmawi.com/Left-side-Navigation Fay Darmawi Work Post(colonial)cardsMegaphoneLook What You’re DoingSF Urban Film FestCrooked Street Block Party About Contact Instagram https://faydarmawi.com/Megaphone Mon, 20 Jan 2020 04:16:52 +0000 Fay Darmawi https://faydarmawi.com/Megaphone 2017 Megaphone PROJECT ACTIVIST SUBSCRIPTION BOX LOCATION YBCA, SAN FRANCISCO TEAM LEAH NICHOLS&nbsp; ––&nbsp; NICK ROSS&nbsp; ––&nbsp; FAY DARMAWI Megaphone is a service that delivers curated boxes containing talismans representing U.S. based social movements that you can keep for yourself or give to others. <img width="1600" height="1059" width_o="1600" height_o="1059" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df91051704521d2d2f5420de476dd579a6cf5acba8c5faa58012ba1c9e9587e3/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-4.jpg" data-mid="59937852" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df91051704521d2d2f5420de476dd579a6cf5acba8c5faa58012ba1c9e9587e3/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-4.jpg" /> <img width="1024" height="1600" width_o="1024" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a59c4c525e70a0204d42a8255e472561a3ce3ca04708b6b2aeefb167d7be7621/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-8.jpg" data-mid="59937856" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a59c4c525e70a0204d42a8255e472561a3ce3ca04708b6b2aeefb167d7be7621/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-8.jpg" /> Artists will be commissioned to create wearable objects, or a curation team will carefully select existing objects available in the marketplace. This wearable/shareable aspect speaks to the belief that peer-to-peer interactions create the most impactful culture change. <img width="1600" height="1200" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3f4b8938e7122316dbe2ccd0366d68fa1f18bf4e1c2f9fb92d22dd84d1b6b97/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-1.jpg" data-mid="59937846" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3f4b8938e7122316dbe2ccd0366d68fa1f18bf4e1c2f9fb92d22dd84d1b6b97/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-1.jpg" /> <img width="1067" height="1600" width_o="1067" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e80a82c741d2e65b5241c4349a5b46f5f808b80ad9c815caf64b843ef983286c/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-11.jpg" data-mid="59937859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e80a82c741d2e65b5241c4349a5b46f5f808b80ad9c815caf64b843ef983286c/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-11.jpg" /> The prototype shown here is a box containing historical artifacts representing the LGBTQ rights movement as it expressed itself in San Francisco Bay Area in the mid 1980s, with a “news feed” card that brings the movement to current day and actionable steps to support it into the future. <img width="1531" height="1600" width_o="1531" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83ff6d4ccdfcd23e140ec71b9d1f6721734667a2f2e98b71ae747af4d9d03dbf/FayDarmawi--3.jpg" data-mid="60068444" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83ff6d4ccdfcd23e140ec71b9d1f6721734667a2f2e98b71ae747af4d9d03dbf/FayDarmawi--3.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1200" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1e4b39e08cf12a9117a35e47751b4f2aaf05aa2166a1935328fa1d4d1615b8c/FayDarmawi--4.jpg" data-mid="60068443" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1e4b39e08cf12a9117a35e47751b4f2aaf05aa2166a1935328fa1d4d1615b8c/FayDarmawi--4.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c014e8a0d73defe304a2db62970308ed9d3651bc88beb83af32910d3b2cf225/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-3.jpg" data-mid="59937850" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c014e8a0d73defe304a2db62970308ed9d3651bc88beb83af32910d3b2cf225/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-3.jpg" /> Below are mockups of the Megaphone website, which details the importance and history of activism. It also includes ways to get involved and subscribe to the box.&nbsp; <img width="1920" height="1446" width_o="1920" height_o="1446" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b7075859a6cb9465f2c486ec4774985c404aa3a369dc399e64a384799746abb/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-Website-4.png" data-mid="60067750" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b7075859a6cb9465f2c486ec4774985c404aa3a369dc399e64a384799746abb/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-Website-4.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1446" width_o="1920" height_o="1446" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d21132b13c89cdc9bad571088e5d4a52359068c71b74ac45b77a2bdeed3b0e20/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-Website-2.png" data-mid="60067528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d21132b13c89cdc9bad571088e5d4a52359068c71b74ac45b77a2bdeed3b0e20/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-Website-2.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1446" width_o="1920" height_o="1446" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61c8b30db071b49c6ebc58ed0a47bc761be4deb37ad0a914b2bee4d74350eaa4/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-Website-3.png" data-mid="60067529" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61c8b30db071b49c6ebc58ed0a47bc761be4deb37ad0a914b2bee4d74350eaa4/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-Website-3.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1446" width_o="1920" height_o="1446" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fadd783d821bbad1b879565403bc951db6b457827133988a52d822ab3a753a7b/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-Website-1.png" data-mid="60067527" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fadd783d821bbad1b879565403bc951db6b457827133988a52d822ab3a753a7b/FayDarmawi-Megaphone-Website-1.png" /> https://faydarmawi.com/Crooked-Street-Block-Party Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:36:06 +0000 Fay Darmawi https://faydarmawi.com/Crooked-Street-Block-Party 2014 Crooked Street Block Party PROJECT NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK PARTY LOCATION LOMBARD STREET, SAN FRANCISCO TEAM TAREK HARARAH&nbsp; ––&nbsp; PHIL MILLENBAH&nbsp; ––&nbsp; LUTZKA ZIVNY&nbsp; ––&nbsp; FAY DARMAWI North Beach families and small business owners converted one block of the famous Lombard Street in San Francisco into a “park” featuring a youth-focused music/dance festival.&nbsp; We closed the street to traffic for a day, rolled out turf over concrete, pulled out lawn chairs, and enjoyed a picnic. <img width="1600" height="862" width_o="1600" height_o="862" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/faa251c268654432bbd889d064cb923c48c7533614fb89df46804885127d9bd2/FayDarmawi-CrookedStreetBlockParty-9.jpg" data-mid="59948560" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/faa251c268654432bbd889d064cb923c48c7533614fb89df46804885127d9bd2/FayDarmawi-CrookedStreetBlockParty-9.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="870" width_o="1600" height_o="870" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c278e49390984baddf2d88d8a3c6cd07b9bf7a54897a6ca65ce0cdeeda589780/FayDarmawi-CrookedStreetBlockParty-1.jpg" data-mid="59948552" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c278e49390984baddf2d88d8a3c6cd07b9bf7a54897a6ca65ce0cdeeda589780/FayDarmawi-CrookedStreetBlockParty-1.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="870" width_o="1600" height_o="870" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/752dd505902def45033d51e7846bb556fa0e36e2f4ef9c7c19580174e329ac30/FayDarmawi--2.jpg" data-mid="59949528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/752dd505902def45033d51e7846bb556fa0e36e2f4ef9c7c19580174e329ac30/FayDarmawi--2.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="869" width_o="1600" height_o="869" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9f319c739779ccb8dfc1f1d4865f235e5a3d0233124bb1824003eb906efc476/FayDarmawi-CrookedStreetBlockParty-7.jpg" data-mid="59948558" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9f319c739779ccb8dfc1f1d4865f235e5a3d0233124bb1824003eb906efc476/FayDarmawi-CrookedStreetBlockParty-7.jpg" /> By closing off a famous street, we wanted to highlight the importance of public open space for use by people over cars. https://faydarmawi.com/About Fri, 17 Jan 2020 22:38:11 +0000 Fay Darmawi https://faydarmawi.com/About Fay DarmawiBASED IN SAN FRANCISCO Fay Darmawi is a social practice artist who focuses on cities, storytelling, and media.&nbsp;She is the Founder and Executive Producer of the SF Urban Film Fest, a film festival focused on civic engagement inspired by great storytelling. Fay is an immigrant from Jakarta, Indonesia but calls San Francisco, where she raised her now college-aged twin sons, her hometown. Artist Statement I am interested in how power imbalance is reflected in urban space, media, and historical accounts. Through the creative acts of curation and public assembly, I offer alternative interpretations of existing film, archival documents, and commemorative memorabilia. My aim is to tip the power imbalance by making these artifacts more accessible in their physical form as well as their relevance to everyday life; as such, there is a possibility of social enterprise and business models underpinning all my projects, making them self-sustaining and readily available instead of rarified. I work in multi-disciplinary teams with filmmakers, architects, graphic designers, urban planners, historians and activists. I am deeply grateful for my collaborators. Awards &amp; Acknowledgements SOCIAL PRACTICE ART 2019 The Berlage (Delft, Netherlands) National Archives of Dutch Colonialism in Indonesia Master Class Named YBCA100 for SF Urban Film Fest National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellow 2018 Forward/Slash Story Residency (Lamu Island, Kenya) 2017 City of San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Media Projects Grants Panel Juror 2016 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Equity Cohort Fellow BUILT ENVIRONMENT 2018 –– 2019 City of SF Mayor’s Office of Economic &amp; Workforce DevelopmentNon-Profit Sustainability Initiative: Investment Commitee Member 2017New America #Rise Local Symposium Presenter 2016 American Institute of Architects, SF Chapter Board Member San Francisco Housing Action Coalition (SFHAC) Spring Symposium Guest Speaker 2012 –– PRESENT Chinatown Community Development CenterPast Board Member; Current Housing Dev. Committee Chair Background EDUCATION2018&nbsp; ––&nbsp; Valleta (Malta): Curatorial Certificate &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; sponsored by EU Cultural Capital2010&nbsp; ––&nbsp; UCLA Extension: Screenwriting Certificate1990&nbsp; –– &nbsp;MIT: Masters in City Planning1988&nbsp; –– &nbsp;University of Penn: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Bachelor of Arts, BA PRESS 2019&nbsp; –– &nbsp;MIT Technology Review2018&nbsp; –– &nbsp;Multiple Cities Contact EMAIL faydarmawi@gmail.com Web design&nbsp; –– &nbsp;Tiffany Chan https://faydarmawi.com/Ursula-K-Le-Guin Tue, 14 Jan 2020 01:20:19 +0000 Fay Darmawi https://faydarmawi.com/Ursula-K-Le-Guin 1. Ursula K Le Guin <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66303584544fb48a22200ca159ded6f920008f2a28fa28ade954194c696226db/aaa.jpg" data-mid="58438358" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66303584544fb48a22200ca159ded6f920008f2a28fa28ade954194c696226db/aaa.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fda6a412240d787c0bd3c99938413fb1257682784bc6f7ff64b3b23678d1f0d9/r2.jpg" data-mid="58438359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fda6a412240d787c0bd3c99938413fb1257682784bc6f7ff64b3b23678d1f0d9/r2.jpg" /> UKG / 1974 From The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; And with them, or after them, may there not come that even bolder adventurer — the first geolinguist, who, ignoring the delicate, transient lyrics of the lichen, will read beneath it the still less communicative, still more passive, wholly atemporal, cold, volcanic poetry of the rocks: each one a word spoken, how long ago, by the earth itself, in the immense solitude, the immenser community, of space. <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29e71568ecef7a96e92062f9fc6b3789e9c8277e6d7568b1558bef41cf2e66bc/a.jpg" data-mid="58438360" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29e71568ecef7a96e92062f9fc6b3789e9c8277e6d7568b1558bef41cf2e66bc/a.jpg" /> 001a <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/319490a738d912d27878f6875bc4088f80ca548ddf7d9641c46228fa3d6f59c8/b.jpg" data-mid="58438362" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/319490a738d912d27878f6875bc4088f80ca548ddf7d9641c46228fa3d6f59c8/b.jpg" /> 001b <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17fc6c7312e692340c7e67b299a41656814c387a1efd6b6e1cbbdd62121801ac/c.jpg" data-mid="58438361" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17fc6c7312e692340c7e67b299a41656814c387a1efd6b6e1cbbdd62121801ac/c.jpg" /> 001c <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fda6a412240d787c0bd3c99938413fb1257682784bc6f7ff64b3b23678d1f0d9/r2.jpg" data-mid="58438359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fda6a412240d787c0bd3c99938413fb1257682784bc6f7ff64b3b23678d1f0d9/r2.jpg" /> https://faydarmawi.com/Walter-Pater Tue, 14 Jan 2020 01:20:20 +0000 Fay Darmawi https://faydarmawi.com/Walter-Pater 2. Walter Pater <img width="2000" height="2551" width_o="2000" height_o="2551" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c242e961677e6c1660576645169e70f8dd816569faf60ea3a1477f20cc5bf3a9/g.jpg" data-mid="58438363" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c242e961677e6c1660576645169e70f8dd816569faf60ea3a1477f20cc5bf3a9/g.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2551" width_o="2000" height_o="2551" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/828eaf2939fce33a7e7efc22793555135f08f89e84ec59fb60bbe278131549aa/bb.jpg" data-mid="58438364" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/828eaf2939fce33a7e7efc22793555135f08f89e84ec59fb60bbe278131549aa/bb.jpg" /> WP / 1873 From Studies in the History of the Renaissance &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Like the elements of which we are composed, the action of these forces extends beyond us; it rusts iron and ripens corn. Far out on every side of us those elements are broadcast, driven by many forces; and birth and gesture and death and the springing of violets from the grave are but a few out of ten thousand resultant combinations. That clear, perpetual outline of face and limb is but an image of ours, under which we group them - a design in a web, the actual threads of which pass out beyond it. <img width="2000" height="2551" width_o="2000" height_o="2551" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af714e59d1c0801c590eb145d00f2cc1d622067790157999ad01fe261410cd16/aa.jpg" data-mid="58438365" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af714e59d1c0801c590eb145d00f2cc1d622067790157999ad01fe261410cd16/aa.jpg" /> 001a <img width="2000" height="2551" width_o="2000" height_o="2551" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa45f9524f4926f4e12f565eb471f61ab0bbf6a58b40c28c87d45f87e432f450/cc.jpg" data-mid="58438366" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa45f9524f4926f4e12f565eb471f61ab0bbf6a58b40c28c87d45f87e432f450/cc.jpg" /> 001b https://faydarmawi.com/Thomas-Kuhn Tue, 14 Jan 2020 01:20:20 +0000 Fay Darmawi https://faydarmawi.com/Thomas-Kuhn 3. Thomas Kuhn &nbsp; <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fccb86a6577cd820d076bd1aa30988e58eb612d51328b83a1ad610280dd158cb/2.jpg" data-mid="58438368" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fccb86a6577cd820d076bd1aa30988e58eb612d51328b83a1ad610280dd158cb/2.jpg" /> TK / 1962 From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Yet one standard product of the scientific enterprise is missing. Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none. New and unsuspected phenomena are, however, repeatedly uncovered by scientific research, and radical new theories have again and again been invented by scientists. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The practice of normal science depends on the ability, acquired from exemplars, to group objects and situations into similarity sets which are primitive in the sense that the grouping is done without an answer to the question, “Similar with respect to what?” One central aspect of any revolution is, then, that some of the similarity relations change. Objects that were grouped in the same set before are grouped in different ones afterward and vice versa. Think of the sun, moon, Mars, and earth before and after Copernicus; of free fall, pendular, and planetary motion before and after Galileo; or of salts, alloys, and a sulpuhur-iron filing mix before and after Dalton. <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81cbeaaf1cb94c3394f999c2487775d300f3de4d20b1ab9527db0c75ac1c7377/1.jpg" data-mid="58438367" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81cbeaaf1cb94c3394f999c2487775d300f3de4d20b1ab9527db0c75ac1c7377/1.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2786" width_o="2000" height_o="2786" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b608340a741d7a9fd2f42fb184867ca5e93f6e0f4f369ad7738587a19a6ca067/a.jpg" data-mid="58438369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b608340a741d7a9fd2f42fb184867ca5e93f6e0f4f369ad7738587a19a6ca067/a.jpg" /> https://faydarmawi.com/Loren-Eiseley Tue, 14 Jan 2020 01:20:21 +0000 Fay Darmawi https://faydarmawi.com/Loren-Eiseley 4. Loren Eiseley <img width="2000" height="2700" width_o="2000" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52edac0a32ddee92e030f8abeb8d0863df298c6e5f7f66f163e55dc4682783a8/22.jpg" data-mid="58438370" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/52edac0a32ddee92e030f8abeb8d0863df298c6e5f7f66f163e55dc4682783a8/22.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2700" width_o="2000" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ec529f96bf3a266636f9b02c683868d2073b83d92b39b12f2678b837d5e58ec/11.jpg" data-mid="58438371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ec529f96bf3a266636f9b02c683868d2073b83d92b39b12f2678b837d5e58ec/11.jpg" /> LE / 1957 From The Immense Journey &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A billion years have gone into the making of that eye; the water and the salt and the vapors of the sun have built it; things that squirmed in the tide silts have devised it. Light-year beyond light-year, deep beyond deep, the mind may rove by means of it, hanging above the bottomless and surveying impartially the state of matter in the white-dwarf suns. <img width="2000" height="2509" width_o="2000" height_o="2509" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f15a9a346e395667b6b4d0811b722b055f813700d5ed5914eaeaf061558b729/d.jpg" data-mid="58438372" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f15a9a346e395667b6b4d0811b722b055f813700d5ed5914eaeaf061558b729/d.jpg" /> Yet whenever I see a frog’s eye low in the water warily ogling the shoreward landscape, I always think inconsequentially of those twiddling mechanical eyes that mankind manipulates nightly from a thousand observatories. Someday, with a telescopic lens an acre in extent, we are going to see something not to out liking, some looming shape outside there across the great pond of space. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Whenever I catch a frog’s eye I am aware of this, but I do not find it depressing. I stand quite still and try hard not to move or lift a hand since it would only frighten him. And standing thus it finally comes to me that this is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely magnificent power of humanity. It is, far more than any spatial adventure, the supreme epitome of the reaching out.