The theme for the Fall 2010 issue Immediacy, our program's graduate student journal, is "Media Engagements with Contemporary Urban Space." I encourage all of you to submit your work -- perhaps not in the form of several individual projects, but ...Read More
Preparing my Pecha Kucha presentation for this week made me think much more concrete about the objective of my research, and the argument I am going to spatialize. Reading Olivia Mitchell’s advices for holding a Pecha Kucha presentation also directed ...Read More
You Are Here: Psychogeography of Mapping - Pratt Manhattan Gallery - Closing 11/6/10 See Urban Omnibus Review Read More
Because URT is undergoing some updates and we won't be able to post for a couple weeks, you won't be able to share an URT-based "draft map" on the 17th (see the original assignment here). Yet I would still like ...Read More
Alright, so its about time that I officially post my proposal. I'll admit that things have changed between now and last month. However, as I look back, I notice that things have not changed that much. and they've changed ...Read More
Stumbling blocks are useful. I should like to admit that I've been a little frustrated with the progress I've made in my study of speakeasies, prohibition, bar culture, and media theory. For just a few reasons. Firstly, there's simply so much ...Read More
My search for information on video game arcades in the city led me first to the Department of Consumer Affairs. The DCA handles all licensing and records for businesses in the city, so I figured they would have an exhaustive ...Read More
Introduction For my map critique, I decided to study the series of protest maps given by the French daily newspaper’s website ‘Le Monde’ published on October 12th, available at: http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/infographie/2010/10/12/la-carte-des-manifestations-du-12-octobre_1424313_3224.html After browsing through different worldly media sources, the French protesters were being described ...Read More
Mapping the Social Lives of Zines: Situated Media networks from 1985-1995 Context Recent articles in mainstream media publications ranging from the New York Times and BusinessWeek to the Village Voice and Wired have all featured the recent resurgence of ...Read More
It's too bad that this project isn't public because it's really interesting. About 100 street artists illegally entered an abandoned subway station and painted murals on the walls. One of the creators calls it "an eternal show without a crowd." NY ...Read More