Global Lives Project
{{Infobox website
| name = Global Lives Project
| logo = Logo of Global Lives Project.jpg
| logo_size = 220
| url = {{URL|http://globallives.org/}}
| company_type = Nonprofit
| location = San Francisco, California
| type = Video library of human life experience
}}
The Global Lives Project is a nonprofit organization{{cite web|title=GuideStar Quick View: Global Lives Project|url=http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/61-1524216/global-lives-project.aspx|publisher=GuideStar|accessdate=29 June 2012}} consisting of volunteer filmmakers and photographers, programmers and engineers, architects and designers, students and scholars. The mission of the organization is to collaboratively build a video library of human life experience that reshapes how individuals conceive of cultures, nations and people outside of their own communities.{{cite web|title=Global Lives Project Website: About Page|url=http://globallives.org/en/about/|publisher=Global Lives Project}}
Program areas
The Global Lives Project has four main program areas: exhibitions, curating, education and screenings.
- Exhibitions: The organization creates multi-screen video installations featuring 24-hour-long films of individual lives.{{cite web|last=Lancaster|first=Jake|title=Documentary project delves into daily life|url=http://flavorpill.com/dailydose/136.email?publication=newyork|publisher=Flavorpill Daily Dose|accessdate=29 June 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130123045628/http://flavorpill.com/dailydose/136.email?publication=newyork|archive-date=23 January 2013|url-status=dead}} The installations are intended to create a space of contemplation and reflection.{{cite web|last=Wetherington|first=Kelly|title=Global Lives Project|url=http://bytheseatofmyskirt.com/2008/12/09/global-lives-project/|publisher=By the Seat of My Skirt|accessdate=29 June 2012}}
- Curating Video: The Global Lives Project currently curates a permanent online video library of footage and provides a hub for its community of volunteers. Globallives.org allows users to explore the video collection in multiple languages, access education materials, propose new shoots, build teams of collaborators and raise money for new productions.
- Education: The organization provides materials intended to provide lessons in social studies, language arts, geography, statistics, foreign languages, art and community service.
- Screenings and Discussions: Aside from video installations, the Global Lives Project holds screenings and presentations at universities, cultural centers, and events. Screenings have been held at venues such as the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Harvard University.
History
The first phase of The Global Lives Project was an international collaboration of filmmakers who produced 10 documentaries. Each documentary is 24 hours long and captures a complete day in the life of the film subject.{{cite news|last=Knowles|first=Jamillah|title=Global Outlook|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/podsandblogs/2009/09/global_outlook.shtml|accessdate=8 June 2012|newspaper=BBC Blogs & Pods|date=1 September 2009}} These subjects were chosen to be demographically representative of the global population, so that they match the global distributions of rural vs. urban population, regional distribution, gender, income level, religion, and age.{{cite news|last=Pescovitz|first=David|title=Think Globally, Record Locally|url=http://www.good.is/post/think-globally-record-locally/|accessdate=8 June 2012|newspaper=Good Design|date=August 19, 2009}}
The first full premiere of all 10 videos occurred at a museum in San Francisco in February 2010. The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts hosted a four-month exhibition{{cite news|last=Chun|first=Kimberly|title=Everyday People: 'Global Lives' Opens At YBCA|url=http://www.7x7.com/arts/everyday-people-global-lives-opens-ybca|accessdate=8 June 2012|newspaper=7x7|date=25 February 2010}}{{cite news|title=Global Lives World Premiere: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts!|url=http://globallives.org/ybca2010/|accessdate=8 June 2012|newspaper=Global Lives Project|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100919204301/http://globallives.org/ybca2010/|archive-date=19 September 2010|url-status=dead}}
that drew more than 20,000 visitors. Dozens of other installations, screenings and lectures have been held in various locations around the world, including the United Nations University in Tokyo.
The Global Lives Project was founded by David Evan Harris and has been supported by the Black Rock Arts Foundation, the Long Now Foundation,{{cite news|last=Brown|first=Austin|title=Opening Celebration: Global Lives Project at The Long Now|url=http://blog.longnow.org/02010/10/29/opening-celebration-global-lives-project-at-the-long-now/|accessdate=8 June 2012|newspaper=The Long Now Foundation|date=29 October 2010}} the Adobe Foundation, the Burwen Education Foundation, the Consulate of Switzerland in San Francisco, The National Endowment for the Arts, and hundreds of individual donors.
References
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External links
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- [http://globallives.org/ Global Lives Project official site]
- [https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12296 Creative Commons]
- [http://blackrockarts.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html Black Rock Arts Foundation]
- [http://www.longnow.org/store/global-lives-dvd/ Long Now Foundation]
- [http://www.vimeo.com/6272340 An excerpt of Global Lives footage]
- [http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/28/boing-boing-on-good-8.html BoingBoing]
- [http://www.ybca.org Yerba Buena Center for the Arts]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100224060722/http://fourm-designbuild.com/news.html FOURM Design]
- [https://twitter.com/globallives Global Lives on Twitter]