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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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Author: laragheintz

Murals in East Harlem: Final Process Blog

December 20, 2011 laragheintz Uncategorized

I wanted to take this chance to clarify my project since I feel like I presented it so poorly yesterday. Looking back on this whole

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Inserting My Path into Argument

December 9, 2011 laragheintz Process Blog

As I began plotting information in URT last week, I began concretely dividing my data into layers and thinking about how to construct an argument,

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Using Cartographic Space to Show Incongruity

November 30, 2011 laragheintz Process Blog

One of my main goals at the beginning of this project was to look into how the locative place of graffiti interacted with and played

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Re-evaluating the Process

November 10, 2011 laragheintz Process Blog

Since I began this project, the conceptual framework of the data itself seems to keep shifting, and one of my largest problems in addition to

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The Ginger Island Project- Could be useful for the Fluxus Mapping Project?

November 3, 2011 laragheintz Event, Events, In the News

I’ll admit- this is mostly for Danielle but could be interesting to others- I stumbled upon this the other and figured it may be useful

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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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Graffiti as Memorial in Latino Communities in NYC

October 12, 2011 laragheintz Process Blog, Project Proposal

1. Background and Context: As an art form, street art and graffiti have had a stylistic resurgence in media during the past decade, although it

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Mapping GeoCities

October 5, 2011 laragheintz In the News

Hey all found this article in GOOD this morning on how Dutch designer, Richard Vijen, plotted all data from the former GeoCities into a scrollable

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Mapping Ephemeral Street Art

October 4, 2011 laragheintz Process Blog

Note: While not an official process blog, I wanted to throw this out there since picking a topic for this project seems to have brought

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