YIN XIUZHEN
Portable City: Jia Yu Guan, 2009
Courtesy Beijing Commune
“While Beijing has been the focus of inspiration for much of Yin Xiuzhen’s work, documenting the process of deconstruction and reconstruction, Yin has since installed her work worldwide, examining cultural changes in different locales. Investigating the repercussions of globalization, with the massive changes brought about by mass [...]
I recently learned of University of Chicago PhD student Eli Thorkelson’s blog, Decasia: Critique of Academic Culture and it is wonderful to read.
Eli’s PhD project comprises an anthropological analysis of university culture, and he’s also looking at the socialisation of graduate students. I remember being told as a Master’s student that it was not [...]
Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry (this time: Adrian Blackwell, Greig de Peuter, Christine Shaw, & Marcelo Vieta)
Entangled Territories, an event organized by Toronto School of Creativity and Inquiry (in this case, Adrian Blackwell, Greig de Peuter, Christine Shaw, and Marcelo Vieta) as Act 16 of the Public Acts project, was held within Adrian Blackwell’s [...]
Tagged art, performance, territory, TorontoHow could one avoid being just a technical end-user and late-adopter of Geographical Information Systems – that’s geodata or spatial data in other lingo : Does anyone have truly theoretical and methodological innovations in areas such as GIS for visualization of local and of community issues, locative and mobile media applications, [...]
Tagged geocaching, geotagging, Google Earth, GPS, locative media, mobile computing, mobile media, pop culture, ubiquitous computing, urban space, way-findingBarcelona-based artist Liz Kueneke:
Given the great number of inhabitants, all with their own perceptions and uses, there is literally an infinite amount of different meanings and interpretations of a city. Manhattan’s Urban Fabric is a public intervention which intends to show just a glimmer of this richness, and to make visible what normally remains invisible [...]