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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
Last chance...
Hello Class,
There are still many psychogeographic maps floating around the blog that are not properly labeled. Please take this opportunity to label your work before I begin marking the exercises.
Submitted work MUST ALWAYS CONTAIN YOUR FULL NAME AND THE APPROPRIATE LABEL # (Section 14 or 15). If your work is not properly labeled YOU WILL NOT RECIEVE A MARK.
If your not sure, check that your work shows up when you click on your class section (under Labels on the right hand navigation menu)… if it doesn't, sign in and you will be able to edit your own posts. Please contact me (or Chris) if you have any difficulties.
Best,
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Michael Erdmann merdmann@faculty.ocad.ca
There are still many psychogeographic maps floating around the blog that are not properly labeled. Please take this opportunity to label your work before I begin marking the exercises.
Submitted work MUST ALWAYS CONTAIN YOUR FULL NAME AND THE APPROPRIATE LABEL # (Section 14 or 15). If your work is not properly labeled YOU WILL NOT RECIEVE A MARK.
If your not sure, check that your work shows up when you click on your class section (under Labels on the right hand navigation menu)… if it doesn't, sign in and you will be able to edit your own posts. Please contact me (or Chris) if you have any difficulties.
Best,
--
Michael Erdmann merdmann@faculty.ocad.ca
Friday, January 19, 2007
Further reading...
Hey class(es), some projects came to mind during today's lecture.
If you liked the exercise today, you should check out Janet Cardiff. She is a Canadian artist from Ontario currently living in Alberta (I think). She has done a bunch of great audio / film works, inculding many walking tours, and the amazing Paradise Institue (excellent user experience design).
On the more literary/theoretical side, Walter Benjamin explored the idea of the flaneur and wrote extensively about the city and its psychogeography (though I don't think he used that term). His major work was the Arcades Project.
Also in the vein of urban exploration is Infiltration, a zine and website 'about going places you're not supposed to go'. My personal favourites: subway tunnels, the sheraton hotel sub-basement.
We talked a bit about mapping today, and we will get more into that later, but there's a great book about mapping as a conceptual practice called Else/Where: Mapping — New Cartographies of Networks and Territories (terse, I know). It talks a lot about mapping of various things (conversations, networks etc) and about visualization as a design tool. Available on amazon.ca but not, sadly, in the library. I will bring it in next week.
If you liked the exercise today, you should check out Janet Cardiff. She is a Canadian artist from Ontario currently living in Alberta (I think). She has done a bunch of great audio / film works, inculding many walking tours, and the amazing Paradise Institue (excellent user experience design).
On the more literary/theoretical side, Walter Benjamin explored the idea of the flaneur and wrote extensively about the city and its psychogeography (though I don't think he used that term). His major work was the Arcades Project.
Also in the vein of urban exploration is Infiltration, a zine and website 'about going places you're not supposed to go'. My personal favourites: subway tunnels, the sheraton hotel sub-basement.
We talked a bit about mapping today, and we will get more into that later, but there's a great book about mapping as a conceptual practice called Else/Where: Mapping — New Cartographies of Networks and Territories (terse, I know). It talks a lot about mapping of various things (conversations, networks etc) and about visualization as a design tool. Available on amazon.ca but not, sadly, in the library. I will bring it in next week.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Welcome to the class blog!
This site will be our meeting place outside of the classroom. You'll also be submitting work here, so look around and try to get comfortable with the tools. If you run into trouble let us know.
Please take the time to complete your profile and preferably use your full (real) name... again, you'll be submitting assignments here so if you don't use your real name then you'll have to remember to sign ALL of your posts.
Please take the time to complete your profile and preferably use your full (real) name... again, you'll be submitting assignments here so if you don't use your real name then you'll have to remember to sign ALL of your posts.
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