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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: sarafusco

URT so good? Not so much

December 19, 2011 sarafusco Process Blog

As I’ve documented in previous process blogs, I have had a particularly difficult time limiting the scope of my project into a manageable portion.  It’s

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Memories, don’t fail me now

December 18, 2011 sarafusco Process Blog

I seems that I’ve dreadfully miscalculated the number of process blogs that I believed I’d posted.  And now I’m left to do what we weren’t

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Think about the future!

December 18, 2011 sarafusco Process Blog

One of the things that I’ve been pleasantly surprised with as my project has progressed is the possibility of expanding this work into a larger,

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City of Memory

November 30, 2011 sarafusco Map Critique

When first visiting City of Memory, the viewer is greeted by a glimpse of a base map that is very quickly covered by an overlay

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Lost within a sea of information

November 28, 2011 sarafusco Process Blog

As my research for this project has progressed, I’ve realized that within the vast sea of information — photos, videos, books, websites, bizarre YouTube clips,

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Mobile, and fleeting

November 9, 2011 sarafusco Process Blog

How can I plot a moving, temporary object on a map (particularly with only moderate tech skills)? This has been my constant question — and

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A History of the World in 100 Seconds

October 17, 2011 sarafusco In the News

Perhaps some of you have seen this already, but I just came across this very interesting data visualization of Wikipedia-referenced historic events, and thought I’d

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The Communicative Art of Subway Bombing

October 16, 2011 sarafusco Project Proposal

Background Starting in the late 1960‘s, through the 1990‘s, the “writing” of graffiti on subway cars in New York grew into a major movement among

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