ARCHIVING THE CITY

for the city yet to come

Posts tagged “experience

experiments with geography, london

Posted on February 21, 2013

As researchers, academics, para-academics, teachers and artists, we rarely have time to meet and share our experiences, talk shop and compare notes about what we are working on, especially the tricky projects that are not easily classified as one sort of activity. This is why I was motivated to organize a get together with some of my favorite researchers, artists and geographers, next week in London. I can’t wait to see what everyone has to share!

mass intimacy

Posted on December 5, 2010

Morvern Callar, (2002) dir. Lynne Ramsay Got it? Good. Now for a little thought exercise: Below is an excerpt from a conversation between writer, Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient), and legendary film editor and sound designer, Walter Murch, from the book, The Conversations: Walter Murch and the art of editing film (2002). As you read, think about all the ways that loving cities is so close to loving films, and why films can be great archives of the experience of living in cites. Walter Murch: In film, there’s a dance between the words and images and the sounds. As rich as films appear, they are limited to two of the five senses–hearing and sight–and they are limited in time–the film lasts only as long…

In Living Color

Posted on January 12, 2009

Colors of New York :: Part I is a video made by Stadtblind, a Berlin-based collective “dedicated to transforming the perception of urban experience.” The video takes pictures of New York City street scenes and sets them against a background of corresponding swatches of color. To see this video, click here. The Colors of New York builds upon Stadtblind’s earlier photo project, The Colors of Berlin, a color-coded “guide book,” which indexes the city by color, and is made to look like a designer’s swatch book.

  

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