Manifesting Futures Monument

An Improbable Monument by Frances Ting

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Usually, monuments… are created by and for a specific,

invested group are static idealize a specific thing set up guidelines for how to think of an

idea commemorate the past

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times are changing and our monuments should also change…

this improbable monument is made for defying all these things.

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3 Concepts:

Values and Ideals Past, Present and Future Time The Holographic Universe

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How Cultural Valuesare Formed: Environmental

adaptations Historical factors Social and

economic evolution

Contact with other cultural groups

Manifesting FuturesIf the present and the futureDepend on the past,Then the present and the futureWould have existed in the past.If the present and the futureDid not exist there, How could the present and the

futureBe dependent upon it?If they are not dependent upon the

past,Neither of the two would be

established.Therefore neither the presentNor the future would exist.

By the same method,The other two divisions—past and future,Upper, lower, middle, etc.,Unity, etc. should be understood.A nonstatic time is not grasped.Nothing one could grasp asStationary time esxists.If time is not grasped, how is it known?If time depends on an entity,Then without an entity how could time exist?There is no existent entity.

So how can time exist?

Garfield, Jay L. (1995). The fundamental wisdom of the middle way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509336-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=kfsyfoO1IlYC&pg=RA1PR19&dq=The+fundamental+wisdom+of+the+middle+way+time&hl=en&ei=hhq_TcmGCMTOiALusJko&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCk

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Manifesting FuturesThe Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot cites physicist David Bohm and neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, both of whom independently arrived at holographic theories or models of the universe.

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Technical Aspects

The Monument Display Connected to Computer

Located in Union Square’s Underground Parking

Garage

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UPC: Underground Public ComputerBy logging in, the public has: Option to change monument display with

pre-made monuments or uploading their own monuments (created offsite)

Ability to choose a filmed 30 second message instead of a static display

Access to Monument Display Archives

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Manifesting FuturesTimeline:1. Create Manifesting Futures Monument Board of Trustees

2. Begin grant writing process for funding and subsequent endowment

3. Finalize monument proposal with Board

4. Submit monument proposal to the San Francisco Arts Commission and San Francisco Planning Department

5. Subsequent approval from aforementioned

6. Acquire necessary permits

7. Hiring of staff: administrative assistants, engineers & construction company

8. Community meetings for San Francisco residents’ input regarding relocation, destruction or reappropriation of Dewey monument

9. Removal of Dewey monument and its’ relocation, destruction or reappropriation

10. Breaking ground ceremony and construction

11. Soft opening for important guests

12. Opening for the public

Manifesting FuturesTotal Cost- $2,282,721.00Breakdown: Equipment: $753,721.00 (9X HD6400 Video

Server, Video Wall and installation, Optoma PK201 Projectors, Tripod Heads, Bell Computers, Firewire 800 cables, HDMI Cables, 8.5 mm C-mount lens, Custom lenticular material, Aluminum Framing Materials, Firewire Cameras, and Point Grey FirePro PCI Express Card- Dual Bus)

Employment: $904,000.00 (Seven board members @ 65,000/annual, five engineers @ $50,000/annual, six construction workers 960 hrs. @ $25/hr, two administrative assistants @ $30,000/annual)

Maintenance: 625,000.00 ($25,000/25 years)

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