communication and the city: psychogeography and locative media

THE WIKI. (COMING SOON).

ART EVENTS.

(required) MOMA -- The Dada show at MOMA is happening June 18-September 11, 2006, so please be sure to check it out. There are a lot of precursors to new media history on rare exhibition and I hear Hunter students can enter for free.

(required) ps1 -- Defamation of Character will be on view in the first floor Main Gallery from October 22, 2006, through January 8, 2007 at PS1. It draws primarily from work created in the post-punk era by approximately thirty artists, and explores the relationships between face and fame, notoriety, disclosure, and erasure. Some of the artists mine popular culture to produce scathing or defamatory indictments of consumer mores; others take the moral corruptions of public and political acts as their defamed subject; and others practice detournement--using elements of well-known media to create new work with a different or opposing message--to elevate injury and injustice into the realm of high art.

(required) SkyMirror -- Rockefeller Center, September 19 - October 27, 2006
This fall, internationally renowned artist Anish Kapoor will exhibit a new, monumental sculpture at Rockefeller Center in New York-- Sky Mirror , a breathtaking, 35-foot-diameter concave mirror made of polished stainless steel. Standing nearly three stories tall at the Fifth Avenue entrance to the Channel Gardens, Sky Mirror will offer a dazzling experience of light and architecture, presenting viewers with a vivid inversion of the skyline featuring the historic landmark building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza

The Met - New Orleans after the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori September 19, 2006-December 10, 2006 at the Met.

Cooper Hewitt -- Solos: Matali Crasset May 19-September 24, 2006

In the fourth installment of the Solos exhibition series, Cooper-Hewitt presents an interactive light and sound installation by the celebrated French industrial designer Matali Crasset. Crasset's work explores residential and urban rituals and the domestication of technology, comprising industrial design products, graphics, theater sets, wallpaper, and furniture.

National Design Triennial: Design Life Now On view December 8, 2006-July 29, 2007 The third Triennial brings together the experimental designs and emerging ideas--including animation, new media, and fashion, robotics, architecture, product, medical, and graphic design--at the center of American culture from 2003 to 2006.

bitforms: Exhibition: September 15-October 21, 2006 Opening Reception: Friday, September 15, 6-8pm bitforms gallery is pleased to announce the second, U.S. solo exhibition of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer--the Mexican-Canadian new media artist who has achieved international prominence for his monumental, interactive public art "interventions." At the crossroads of architecture and theater, Lozano-Hemmer's work has been praised for redefining the meaning of "interactivity," using perverse technologies of surveillance to engage participants in an active, critical way.

ITP show 2006 at NYU in December; design and technology semester show at Parsons in December.

postmasters --October 29 - December 3 Mary Kelly "Love Songs" installation of new works

CLASS LINKS AND RESOURCES. (Psycho-Bibliography)

PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography

Psychogeography and the derive http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.evans/psychogeog.html algorithmic psychogeography

http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography/algoeng.htm rural psychogeography

http://www.nexsound.org/psychogeography.html Great Psychogeography History
http://www.monoculartimes.co.uk/city-tours

art project: People's map of lower manhattan. http://www.24dollarisland.net

http://www.3ammagazine.com/nonfiction/2003/oct/psychobibliography.html

Life By Design: Everyday Digital Culture

http://www.humanities.uci.edu/visualstudies/everyday/papers.html

The Journal of Psychogeography and Urban Research

http://www.psychogeography.co.uk/

Art Projects:

Unbombing & Ars Memoria : Geert Lovink interviews Tjebbe van Tijen
http://imaginarymuseum.org/OpenSKOR/index.html

http://www.reverberant.com/SM/ sound mapping

http://socialfiction.org/psychogeography/ [Generative]Psychogeography

http://www.katearmstrong.com/specialairplane/index.html Drift psychogeographical event

http://katearmstrong.com/ping/index.html Ping art project

http://www.socialfiction.org/socialfiction.org

http://www.coin-operated.com/ Jonah Brucker Cohen's site with umbrella.net

http://99rooms.terracontent.de

http://www.mappr.com/

Searching Berlin project http://www.tourist-research.de/ExpeditionBerlin/index2.html

http://hospital.apoka.com/

more info on walking and algorithmic exploration http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography/algoeng.html

http://www.thingdom.com/cdf/index.html Cardiff (the city) Projects

Art, Locative Media, Games, Events, etc. Many links off of these sites:

http://www.yproductions.com/info/archives/000375.html

http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/mob.htm

Literary works - maps & essays:

http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2003/09/illustrated_inv.html Calvino - Illustrated Invisible Cities

http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/ulysses/ Joyce

http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/TVSeminar/dallwalkmap.html Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"

http://www.reconstruction.ws/023/swope.htm An essay that examines Auster's "City of Glass" (nyc) & Lefebvre's spatial theories

Psychogeography of London & occult-y psychogeog stuff:

http://www.nthposition.com/angelpassage.php Alan Moore - "From Hell" & performance work explores Psychogeog of London

http://www.granta.com/authors/30 Novels of Iain Sinclair (& Michael Moorcock) - psychogeog of London

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1578632064/qid=1110511610/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-1142357-8979051 Urban Magic(k)

Random/Miscellaneous:

http://library.nothingness.org/articles/si/ Online Situationist Texts

http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/1 "Formularly For a New Urbanism"

http://www.classiccafes.co.uk/Psy.html Psychogeography of the Cafe

http://www.yaleimportexport.info/ Differential Spaces, Collapsed Utopias, etc. Yale guy's thesis work. Looks interesting.

NYC mapping related:

http://www.mrbellersneighborhood.com/ NYC n'hoods & stories

http://www.backspace.com/notes/topic/mapping/2

http://www.manhattanusersguide.com/archives_content.php?contentID=030205

http://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/pics/steinberg. jpg (space before jpg) One example of Saul Steinberg's fun maps - his stuff is in New Yorker often.

Other courses loosely or semi-related:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/english/PG1/C19/mod.html Urban Literature & the City (New York, London, Paris, Dublin)

http://www.rushkoff.com/theory2005.html (ITP class/Rushkoff is interesting - 'media theorist' among many other things) (Actually, ITP has several interesting & semi-related classes: "Cellphonia," "Technology and Social Activism," "Theory and Design of Mediated Urban Spaces," etc.) His work, website & blog also good to check out.

Books & Journals:

http://www.glowlab.com/lab/goods.php (Glowlab people have a good booklist here)

http://www.bdpworld.com/ (Black Dog Publ-w/good books. Look under "current titles" - "Situationist Intl A Users Guide" by Simon Ford, and "Contemporary Art from Studio to Situation" - saw that one at St. Marks Books last week. Intro. essay titled something like "the New Situationists"). Other interesting stuff..

http://www.spaceandculture.org/ (blog for print journal "Space and Culture - Intl. Journal of Social Spaces

http://www.flaneur.org