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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Spaceships, Electric Drills, and Photography

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

A recent Metafilter post points us to the spacegeek-inspired ingenuity of astronauts trying to bring their cameras (and long exposures) into focus…
Cities at Night, an Orbital Tour Around the World was made when astronauts added stabilizers to the cameras on the orbital space station, allowing them to get sharp, crisp nighttime images.
And here is the [...]

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Like Snow, WiFi

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

SURVIVALL, ‘Sur-viv-all’, is a word which reflects the 3 languages used during the project, which formed part of Andre Lemos’ sabbatical research at University of Alberta – English, French and Portuguese. The joint interest of the artists was to reflect on the relationship between the virtual territories of cyberspace, abstract representations of our worlds and [...]

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A beautiful day in the neighbourhood?

Monday, April 7, 2008

Mr. Roger’s neighbourhood this is not.
The snow is finally melting in our part of the country, and none too soon as pretty much everyone was getting really friggin’ tired of winter. At least this ended well in a roundabout way.
- Anne

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Flow and the capacity to exceed form

Monday, April 7, 2008

Rivers as artifacts by Matt Edgeworth
For the most part rivers tend to be regarded as more or less natural features of a landscape or townscape … Yet a river and its flow of water is actually often as culturally re-shaped, used and re-used, as any artifact or building … Are rivers natural or cultural? Rivers [...]

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Re-valuing urban space

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Urban Exploration: a Subculture at a Glance by Veronica Davidov

As subcultures go, “urban exploration” or “urbexing” is a very materially embedded one, where community formation happens around specific physical locations, even though as a global phenomenon, it is almost entirely facilitated by the internet … What all of these subgroups share is a value system [...]

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