A contact form was submitted:

title: Michael Stutz

subject: Contact Form Submitted

name: Todd Berreth

email: tmberret@ncsu.edu

phone: 919-428-1127

message:

Dear Mr Stutz, I was given your name by the chair of my department Chandra Cox; Chandra was on the selection committee for your wolf sculpture commission at North Carolina State University. (she sends her regards, btw). I am an assistant professor in Chandra's department, and among other things an installation artist using electronic/digital and interactive media. I'm reaching out because of a recent installation project I and a number of collaborators have been awarded. It is a one-night light festival in Richmond, VA, juried by Nat Troman, the Performance and Media curator at the Guggenheim Museum in NY. The festival has a theme of the Electric Carnival. As a team, we proposed two potential locations for our project, from the collection of potential sites listed by the RFP. One of the sites we selected is the wall which features your Thin Blue Line sculpture. Our project is a projection mapping, so we would be projecting an interactive experience via a digital lcd projector/ computer on the wall in question, from the parking lot across the street. The project wouldn't physically touch/affect the wall or sculpture. The proposed project involves a playful temporary, re-contextualization of the sculpture, making connections to other aspects of Richmond's history and heritage, not associated with police work. Because the sculpture is your art piece, and involves subject matters and communities which need to be treated respectfully and thoughtfully, I wanted to reach out to you and get your thoughts. Would you be willing to talk? I could send you a rendering of what we had in mind... Thank you for your time. Best, Todd Berreth