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Purdue Collective of Installation Artists
Original Idea
Purdue CIA was an experiment in group organization. We strove to be a non-hierarchical group (aka a "collective"). I created the group in the summer of 2006 because I needed help implementing some projects to "alter public space."
I first created the simple Purdue CIA website one evening. It included a registration form to collect emails. Then the next evening I sidewalk chalked all over Purdue University messages like, "Want to alter public space? Want to meet excitingly creative peers? Want to live deliberately and help others do the same? Visit Purdue-CIA.com"
Within a few days I had about 50 email addresses. Our first meeting was a blast, and we grew from there. Over the two years Purdue CIA existed we had 150+ members. We met every other week above Starbucks in the Union to brainstorm fun ideas.
In the last months of 2007 we started the Purdue CIA wiki to collaborate online and create a hyperlinked knowledge repository.
Mission
We wish to live deliberately and among the impassioned, to feel the miraculous and be humbled by the mystery. Playfully spreading joie de vivre we enliven public space and cherish the following:
- Helping others live consciously
- Creating windows out of normalcy
- Expressing enormity and
- Spreading smiles with innocent tomfoolery