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Blind Smell Stick - Emotional Urban Nose

Exploring the urban space with the nose: the work "Blind Smell Stick" by Peter de Cupere invites us to rediscover the familiar spaces in which we live. The object created looks like an ordinary walking stick but functions like the nose of a guide dog for the blind. The lower part of the stick is able to pick up odours through ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:06 PM - Mar 15/2013
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CD . book . psychogeography . sound art

Peter Cusack - Sounds From Dangerous Places

Rer Megacorp [2CD + book], ISBN: 9780956018410, 80 pages, 2012, English
Peter Cusack has traveled to what he defines as "dangerous places", including sites that have suffered environmental devastation (think Chernobyl) and locations at the edges of military zones. In many such places it is the local population who suffer the most. The author engaged in field recording activities in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:13 PM - Feb 26/2013
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activism . art . media . net . psychogeography . surveillance . visual

Street Ghosts - Virtualised Reality Made Real

Street Ghosts, Paolo Cirio, street art, net art, street_ghosts_paolo_cirio.jpg

The grid swallows us. Increasingly it defines and shapes our positions. Italian artist Paolo Cirio uses this uncomfortable fact as the basis for a new work. Street Ghosts reveals a sense of the awkwardness generated by the invasion of public streets by indiscreet media organisations. Google Street View, for ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:35 PM - Oct 15/2012
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media . psychogeography . sound art

Lawrence English, Site-Listening: Brisbane

ROOM 40, Book + 3" CD, Dec 2010, RMBK001, ISBN-13: 978-0980814903
Collaborative sound mapping, random field recording, sonic memory and live transmission from specific sites are various approaches that have been explored and used in the recent past, especially in connection with enormous potential of active audience contribution of recordings and networked microphones. Lawrence English here uses a different approach, making use of his own substantial ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:09 AM - Sep 19/2011
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art . privacy . psychogeography

Global Safari (Powered by Google), the formation of the world's image

Global Safari, Wellington Cançado, Renata Marquez, global_safari_2.jpg

"Images are meant to render the world accessible and imaginable to man" Villem Flusser wrote in his well-known 1983 book "Towards a Philosophy of Photography" which analyzed the transition from prehistoric, traditional images to posthistorical, technical ones. No longer formed by "authors", but by anyone who operates a camera or other apparatus, technical images have been opening windows to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:43 PM - Sep 1/2010
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art . media . mobile . privacy . psychogeography

Habitar - Bending the urban frame 2010 report from Laboral

Habitar, laboral, 2010, report_habitar_neural.jpg

Check the Habitar photo set here. Invisible Architectures: the curiosity generated by this paradox is the starting point of Habitar - Bending the urban frame, the new stage of the broader curatorial path taken by Mediateca Expandida of the Laboral in Gijon, curated by José Luis de Vicente, with the help of Fabien Girardin. The aim is to show ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:53 AM - Jun 30/2010
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art . book . mobile . psychogeography . science . visual

Nato Thompson and Independent Curators International - Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism

Melville House, ISBN 978-0091636586, USA, 2008, English
The representation of space, the reclaiming of space and the recoding of space through a collective negotiation of coordinates and facts are a few of the issues that "geography" at large has posed after our spatial perceptions have been enormously amplified by the internet. A full set of new "visions" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:37 PM - Aug 23/2009
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art . media . mobile . net . psychogeography

Dead Pixel in Google Earth, hacking satellite maps one pixel at a time

Helmut Smits, Dead Pixel in Google Earth, dead_pixel_in_google_earth.jpg

As someone who lives in a major metropolitan city and travels constantly, Google's "Maps" and "Earth" applications are an essential necessity for finding my way through these urban landscapes. Whether it's to meet a friend for coffee in a location I'm not familiar with or to discover the shortest route between ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:26 AM - Apr 1/2009
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art . net . psychogeography . software . visual

Antidatamining, a cartography of chaos.

Antidatamining, RYBN collective, Marika Dermineur, Kevin Bartoli, Jean-Marie Boyr, antidatamining.jpg

Anti datamining is a transversal research project based on the recovery and the viewing/visualization of internet financial data flows. It aims at creating audiovisual environments written, fed and updated in real-time. The project finds its roots in the Data Mining practice, which focuses on producing optimum ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:16 PM - Feb 5/2009
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art . psychogeography . sound

Sun Run Sun, perceiving spaces after GPS

Sun Run Sun, Yolande Harris, sun_run_sun.jpg

Sun Run Sun is an audio installation by media artist Yolande Harris, made during a residency at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (Montevideo), in Amsterdam. The project investigates different modes of perception related to geographical position. The precision of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:54 PM - Jun 4/2008
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art . book . copyright . hacktivism . media . psychogeography . tv . video

Deptford.TV Diaries

Book - OpenMute - ISBN 9780955479601
Public space is a "common" and "common" has to be its representation / interpretation. This seems to be the the inspired ground rule of the Depford.TV unique initiative here extensively documented in a printed book format. At the core there are different implementations and visions of the sharing concept, applied ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:20 AM - Jan 10/2008
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art . hacking . hacktivism . media . mobile . net . psychogeography

Constraint City, body as a living map

Gordan Savicic, Constraint City, The Pain of Everyday life, constraint_city.jpg

Gordan Savicic's project Costraint City - The Pain of Everyday life, exploits in a brilliant way the electromagnetic waves generated by the wireless networks spread all over the urban territory, mapping them out on his own body thanks to a jacket equipped with servo ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:53 PM - Nov 5/2007
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art . literature . mobile . net . psychogeography

Concrete Dialogues, narrating the city

Concrete Dialogues, The Concrete Organization, concrete_dialogues.jpg

The cultural mediation applied by the web to a territory representation is often conveyed by Google Maps, unfortunately the proprietary de facto standard for urban mapping. But even within its software constraints, many initiatives has started to capitalize on the possibility of collectively share some data, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:23 PM - Sep 26/2007
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art . mobile . psychogeography . sound

Ambient Addition, music from surrounding noises

Ambient Addition, Noah Vawter, ambient_addition.jpg

As human civilization devises ever more powerful machines, living among them may become more and more difficult. People find themselves surrounded by incidentally created sounds and noises which are out of synch with their momentary needs. In order to avoid discordant noises they tend to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:51 PM - Jan 11/2007
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art . hacktivism . mobile . psychogeography . software

Resistant Maps, artistic actions in the interconnected urban territory

Mappe Resistenti, Leonardi V-Idea, Alessandro Ludovico, Gianfranco Pangrazio, Tommaso Tozzi, Marco Villani, resistant_maps.jpg

The locative dimension give us indefeasible points of reference in the daily networked and speedy life. But the process of 'mapping' is not obvious nor neutral, even if it has become so easy to experience and share. Resistant Maps, artistic actions in the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:23 PM - Nov 24/2006
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art . media . psychogeography . software

Footprint, personal tracked paths

Footprint, Noriyuki Fujimura, footprint.jpg

Trying to track the individual paths that crosses the urban territory. This is what Footprint Mapping, developed by Noriyuki Fujimura, does. It's focused on the relationship between interactive art and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:24 PM - Oct 2/2006
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art . hacking . net . psychogeography

Conflux Festival, imagining the urban territory

From 14th to 17th of September New York another rich edition of the contemporary psychogeography New York festival Conflux (former Psy-Geo-Conflux as it was called in 2003 and 2004). This is one of the few festivals able to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:51 PM - Sep 14/2006
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art . media . psychogeography . sound

Always ON, new augmented space and its memory

View the Sonar 2006 photo gallery.

The concepts of place, proximity and distance are going to be substantially rewritten by the locative media evolutions. The origins of this process are not only related to the abstract digitalization or to the latest hi-tech gadgets, but they are more significantly rooted in social changes induced by the overflowing of the net space. The social access and the subsequent construction of net space started ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:15 PM - Jul 6/2006
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art . code . media . psychogeography

Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture

Every room has a story, every place has an emotional nature, that could be partially derived, but most of all explored and changed. This is the founding principle of the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:29 PM - Mar 22/2006
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