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Author Archives: Rob Shields

Plane of Immanence, Line of Flight

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Fiona Banner: Harrier and Jaguar 2010 Tate Britain Duveens Commission
Angular planes fragment the solidity of space…  Brought down to Earth, the jet becomes a discarded plaything, a child’s toy which nonetheless suggests something of the libido of technology and war.
- Rob

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Climate Change and the Urban Future

Friday, December 3, 2010

At Cancun this week , where delegates are discussing the 16th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) demanded that the focus on states be shifted toward a stress on peoples and a more local and specific vision of climate impacts. Kirt Ejesiak, Vice President of ICC Canada, voiced [...]

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Lively/Lived Space: Salzburg and L’vivly Space

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Eastern Europe’s cities are an education in different regimes of public space. Within the spatialisation Lefebvre describes as modernist, rationalized ‘Abstract Space’ public areas of cities are reduced to their function, utility and managed in terms of maximizing value within an overarching vision of land as a commodity to be bought and sold. [...]

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Nature’s Urban Crisis

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Paradoxically, it is in cities that the destiny of nature is being decided. Massive consumption by a mostly urbanized human population drives the exhaustion of natural resources and rising pollution. On the occasion of meetings in Tokyo to address decreases in biodiversity, interest in more ecological industries is increasing. Ray Côté is the [...]

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Survivall in exhibition: Vivo Arte Mov at MAM, Salvador da Bahia

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Survivall at MAM Salvador by A. Lemos, M. Fiorelli and R. Shields (Photo copyright A. Lemos and M. Fiorelli)
An update to our previous post on “locative art” using Google Maps and our collective article in Wi – Journal of Mobile Media (Hexagram Institute) – where Andre Lemos recently discussed locative media in Brazil.  Survivall is [...]

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