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Urban Media Archaeology 2011

This is the website for the Fall 2011 "Urban Media Archaeology" graduate seminar-studio, taught by Shannon Mattern and Rory Solomon at The New School.

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Month: October 2011

Music Mapping – attributes and entities

October 31, 2011 Lres Data Model

Last week as we began to brainstorm our attributes and entities I began to make a spread sheet of my initial data collection thoughts/intentions. So

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Mapping the Map: Exploring Maciunas’ Expanded Arts Diagram

October 31, 2011 danielle Process Blog

Opinions of what Fluxus is or once was differs greatly, from Fluxus insiders and outside observers. In the 1960s Fluxus established itself as an international

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Monument Hunting…

October 31, 2011 ahanniba Process Blog

There are way too many monuments in NYC. Perhaps too many is the wrong way to put it. There is an overwhelmingly large amount of

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Manhattan Street Sign Project Proposal

October 29, 2011 sienna Project Proposal

For my final map project, I will be examining Manhattan street signs over the past century. Over the last century, New York City street signs

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Inching Towards Progress

October 29, 2011 sienna Process Blog

My first post made it clear to me that I needed to define precisely what I was looking for; now it is clear that I

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Mapping Main Street

October 26, 2011 zzikki Map Critique

Mapping Main Street “Once you start looking, you’ll notice Main Streets are everywhere and tell all kinds of stories.” (Mapping Main Street)   Mapping Main

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Invincible Cities: A Photographer Builds Harlem

October 26, 2011 Alexandra Map Critique

“All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.” – Rudolf Arnheim Invincible Cities is a website including maps

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Historic Movie Theater Letdown

October 26, 2011 fishmatt33 Class Announcement, Process Blog

I have always loved watching movies, but there is something about going to a movie theater that completely overtakes me.  Have I been there before,

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Map Critique: The Deleted City

October 26, 2011 laragheintz Map Critique, Process Blog

One of the advantages cartographic advances in mixed mediums is that it allows a degree of fluidity in data sets. As James Corner states, in

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Habitat Map is Looking for a Curriculum Specialist!

October 26, 2011 Shannon Class Announcement

Steve Taylor, from last year’s UMA, has passed along this job announcement from HabitatMap, a fantastic themed map about which he wrote his map critique

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