Camp La Jolla Military Park

2008
Camp La Jolla Military Park Tour, University of California, San Diego

Camp La Jolla Military Park involved creating a data collection system for investigating relationships of power within the Military Academic Industrial Complex in Southern California. As a case study, I researched the historical, geographic, and economic ties between the University of California, San Diego, regional defense contractors, and the U.S. Military.

In order to make the information accessible to many audiences I borrowed the vernacular language and imagery of the National Park System, and announced that a national park had been founded to appreciate the ongoing military history of the area. During an exhibition at UCSD I converted a gallery space into a temporary museum, and distributed information about the park via a brochure, a website, and daily golf cart tours.

Links

Park brochure

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Park website and archive administration interface

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The tour

Camp La Jolla Military Park Tour, University of California, San Diego, 2008 (Photograph by Glenna Jennings); thumbnail-13
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The remains of a structure from Camp Callan, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2008, archival inkjet print, 30" x 24", 2008 thumbnail-15

Taxonomy

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The exhibition

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Photographs from the park

Looking west at the old Camp Matthews Rifle Range, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2008, archival inkjet print, 30" x 24", 2008 thumbnail-24
Looking west from the remains of Camp Callan, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2008, archival inkjet print, 30" x 24", 2008 thumbnail-25
"Spook Valley," San Diego, CA, 2008, archival inkjet print, 30" x 24", 2008 thumbnail-26

UCSD Job Fair

Lockheed Martin defense contractor representatives recruiting at UCSD Triton Job & Internship Fair, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2007, archival inkjet print, 30" x 24", 2008 thumbnail-28
Boeing defense contractor representatives recruiting at UCSD Triton Job & Internship Fair, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2007, archival inkjet print, 30" x 24", 2008 thumbnail-29
Air Force Flight Test Center Edwards AFB representatives recruiting at UCSD Triton Job & Internship Fair, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2008, archival inkjet print, 30" x 24", 2008 thumbnail-30

Historical images

Enlisted soldiers training at Camp Callan, Camp Callan "Callander," c.1943, archival inkjet print of found web image, 30" x 24", 2008 thumbnail-32
Enlisted soldiers training at Camp Callan, Camp Callan "Callander," c.1943, archival inkjet print of found web image, 30" x 24", 2008 thumbnail-33
Enlisted soldiers training at Camp Callan, c.1943, archival inkjet print of found web image, 18" x 24", 2008 thumbnail-34
Operation Wigwam test shot, c.1953, archival inkjet print of found web image, 30" x 24", 2008 thumbnail-35
USMC Jet flying over UCSD, archival inkjet print of found web image, 30" x 24", 2008 thumbnail-36
General Atomics Sky Warrior constructed with the help of UCSD engineering students, archival inkjet print of found web image, 30" x 24", 2008 thumbnail-37
Enlisted soldiers training at Camp Callan, Camp Callan "Callander," c.1943, archival inkjet print of found web image, 18" x 24", 2008 thumbnail-38

Exhibitions

  • Drones at Home (in collaboration with The Periscope Project) at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) Gallery, University of California, San Diego, Mar 7-Sept 14, 2012.
  • "Disrupt this Session: Rebellion in Art Practices Today" presentation at College Art Association (CAA) Conference, Los Angeles, Feb 22-25, 2012.
  • Published "Camp La Jolla Military Park: Creative Disturbance Through Adaption of National Park Iconography" in the Parsons Journal for Information Mapping (PJIM) Vol. 3, Issue 3, 2011.
  • Digital Checkpoints Exhibition, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), Ithaca, NY
  • Cross-Disciplinary Productions exhibition, Division of Arts and Humanities Gallery, University of California, San Diego. Curated by Tatiana Sizonenko, 2011.
  • "Camp La Jolla: A Defensonomy," presentation at the Congress of History of San Diego and Imperial Counties at the Veterans Museum & Memorial Center, San Diego, CA, March 8, 2008.