shadow cities / collaborative challenges / hybrid histories / non-places / alternate playgrounds / urban archaeologies / exposed cities / open traversals / operational cities / hacked cities / parasitic cities / open source cities / alternate communities / town halls / community mappings / parallel cities / Interactive City @ ISEA 2006 - San […]
Mute Magazine Issue 29, February 2005
SPECIAL SECTION: (UN)REGENERATE ART
“Seeking to interrogate, critique or complicate the familiar rituals of public and community art, artists play the roles of urban ethnographers, activists, social historians and even social workers. Social engagement and psychogeographic immersion in the minutiae of the local grows so deep, so richly detailed, that some […]
Shopdropping: experiments in the aisle - “an exhibition that both catalogues and instigates the insertion of art into public places of commerce”
Despite appreciating Packard Jenning’s Il Duce Action Figure, which involved the “insertion of a hand-made Benito Mussolini doll into Wal-Mart” I’ll admit to being one of those people described in the exhibition text who […]
I don’t know that I’ve ever wondered about how stamps are designed, but this description of Canada Post’s Urban Transit/Light Rail stamp, issued in March of last year, is pretty interesting.
“‘The designer took a photographer to the service yard of each transit company, where they took photos of the cars, all in profile, with similar […]
Rod’s drawn out some thoughts and questions about maps and traces and art from Matt Ward’s annoyance with GPS drawings.
“Which kind of GPS drawing is he thinking of? Does it matter what the GPS trace looks like? (or: does intentionality matter in this?)
Matt immediately turns (left at the sign, then past the lights etc) to […]