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Charlie Vinz

@adaptive_operations

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2024-25 Miller Prize recipient @exhibitcolumbus
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New restaurant coming soon #wip taken in Evanston, Illinois by @adaptive_operations
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16 days ago
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Accessing Nostalgia, our installation at the Crump Theatre for last year's Exhibit Columbus, featured a series of interventions in and around the theatre itself. One of the main ones that we didn't get to show until now is the CRUMP Library. Installed in one of the sealed off, long obsolete opera box seating areas, the Critical Resources for Underutilized Methods in Preservation Library (cannot resist an acronym opportunity). The idea was to create a space for sometimes uncomfortable conversations about a place's history. The Crump Theatre is beloved to so many, but to some, it has a history of bad memories and negative connotations due to its segregated seating. This history is not recorded in any formal way and is primarily remembered through stories, though the actual seating remains. From the variety of conversations I had with constituents, this is clearly still a charged space. We sub-commissioned the brilliant artist and designer @rolandknow to create a new screen for the window of the opera box. The opera boxes had been frozen in time with backlit shadow screens that were part of a set from a theatre production 50+ years ago. We wanted to play with that medium and insert a screen that would speak to a different perspective on these phenomena, as well as signal from the theatre floor that something else is happening in this little side space after all these decades.  Roland's piece is entitled Fracture: "Fracture is questioning what it means to repair a landscape. Crump's ruptured history is embodied in the presence of segregated seating within the theater's architecture. A history of segregation renders a rift, a split, a fragmentation of a landscape that is present yet invisible. The intervention by Adaptive Operations is an attempt at repair, and the re-imagination of the opera box is an extension of this history as ongoing and transformable. The transparent work, created to mimic the fragments of stained glass while maintaining the artist's brush stroke - will interact with the silhouettes of individuals within the space that project onto a new landscape. A history of a place that is fractured, reconstructed into a place imagined." Since the form taken in The Crump Theatre by @adaptive_operations
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a month ago
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Fun one for @drinkmarz @marzbrewing designed by @adaptive_operations dreamed up by @edmarlumpen. (Cherry Bench w/integrated light show, rose disco mirrored front, and step up bench for KARAOKE STAGE mode) 🪩🎙️🪩 by @adaptive_operations
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4 months ago
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Thanks SF pals for coming out last week for Informal Light! Super thanks to @cahadesign for this awesome storefront gallery space, @jiimbeau for these lovely pictures, and @jemonks & @dickyk for hosting ❤️❤️❤️ taken in Arsicault Bakery by @adaptive_operations
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5 months ago
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8 years ago this month! I collaborated with @jeremiahchiu on designing Song Poems, an installation for his prescient visual music and graphic scores, creating a flexible listening station hangout zone, a speaker chair/physical music dispenser on wheels, and a TV sling because why mount it on the wall? It was the first show @marzbrewing 's gallery space (RIP). It was also my introduction to working with @adigoodrich and @seanpecknold , who were visiting to support and expertly stepped in to help pull it all together the night before. I think @theandicrist may have also helped a bit behind the scenes at Hyde Park Art Center where some of the fabrication might have happened. All of em amazing collaborators. by @adaptive_operations
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6 months ago
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There's a deck! Landscaping to come .. Swipe for before taken in Lake Wandawega by @adaptive_operations
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6 months ago
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Very excited to share some objects I've been working on these past few months for a small exhibition I'm calling Informal Light at my pal Hallie's space in San Francisco @cahadesign There will be an opening May 1 for SF pals, and maybe even some words by @thegibran to help make sense of the weird layers of thoughts happening in these objects (pendant lights, yes, they're ultimately pendant lights made out of worn out men's shirts). by @adaptive_operations
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6 months ago
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Final details coming together over at this a-frame rehab, including turning 2 of the beams into light fixtures taken in Lake Maxinkuckee by @adaptive_operations
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8 months ago
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Earlier this year, in the midst of our Exhibit Columbus process, we were asked to develop schematic concept renderings for Project Encore, an emerging organized effort to restore the Crump Theatre and build a new addition that would make the building accessible and provide new support program, as well as an enclosed outdoor courtyard space. Our proposal extended the 1940s accordion facade with a folded perforated metal screen, overlayed with the facades of the historic buildings that once stood in that adjacent location, restoring the street edge and creating a transitional, accessible entrance/lobby, and forming an outdoor performance/gathering space. Over the summer we teamed up with @oriley_office as finalists in a selection process to be the architects for this. Ultimately the project leaders had something else in mind, but we were extremely pleased with this approach and excited about the possibilities. A few extra images show the process of developing the design and final renderings through physical collaging and multiple overlays, mimicking to an extent the palimpsest nature of the historic theatre. Extremely patient rendering assistance from @mellljg taken in Columbus, Indiana by @adaptive_operations
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10 months ago
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Updates from Lake Wandawega, and its early October, late afternoon sun #wip taken in Lake Wandawega by @adaptive_operations
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a year ago
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7 Pants Lamp A lamp shade made from 7 pairs of exhausted pants and wood glue woven into a self supporting sphere. This lamp will be available at the @latitudechi fundraiser on Thursday Oct. 16. See ya there! by @adaptive_operations
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a year ago
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We’re excited for Wednesday’s Miller Prize Conversation with Charlie Vinz of Adaptive Operations (@adaptive_operations)! Take a look at these photos of Charlie working with summer camp kids, high school students, Columbus Propeller, builders, and more, in Columbus over the last two-year cycle of Yes And. Join us at 6:30 pm at The Crump Theatre (@the_crump_theatre) for a conversation with Charlie and special guest Shannon Stratton (Executive Director, Oxbow Arts), moderated by Leticia Prado (J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program). The conversation will start with an Indiana guest poet, Eugene Gloria. Guests are invited to arrive early for a reception. Charlie, with his team at Adaptive Operations—Curt MacIver and Melanie Gregorio—created the installation Accessing Nostalgia at The Crump Theatre. The installation peels back the building’s layers, exposing forgotten architectural details and stories. On the north façade, 130 silhouettes of Columbus residents who have cared for the theater reflect like a window to the past. Inside one of the long-sealed opera boxes, the project invites visitors to reflect on the theater’s complicated history, including its era of racial segregation, while imagining what new uses could take root. The 2025 Miller Prize Conversations are made possible by a generous grant from the Mark and Wendy Elwood Foundation. The series is being produced in partnership with the Indiana University J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program (@iu_architecture) and Indiana Humanities (@inhumanities). #millerprize #exhibitcolumbus #yesand #exhibition #community #art #architecture #design #installation #publicart #humanities taken in The Crump Theatre by @adaptive_operations
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a year ago
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