The first thing I thought of was a lot of facts, all the Atlantic Yards news items floating in the internet. And the thing that
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Lost within a sea of information
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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Another week, another excuse
Image: Bain News Service, Union Square from a skyscraper, New York, 1908, via Library of Congress, public domain It was a very filling Thanksgiving weekend
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The Steenbeck As Archaeological Tool
When I first talked to Elena Rossi-Snook at the Reserve Film and Video Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at
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Visualizations of Graffiti Location Data Set
The video animates the reading and writing processes that government agencies and contractors perform. Each dot in the animation represents a record within the graffiti
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The Simmering Pot: From Data Source to Data Sauce
In my last post, I tried to situate my exploration of a data set within media archaeology by foregrounding the gaps contained within the data
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Rummaging a Data Set: Identifying the Gaps
“Media archaeology rummages textual, visual, and auditory archives,” says Erik Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, “as well as collections of artifacts, emphasizing both the discursive and
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Now and Then
Not only has it been great learning about all of the different types of music halls and venues in and around New York City but,
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Mapping Music – A Critical Reflection Thus Far
There are various themes, issues and surprises that I have encountered thus far in my research process. Immediate Challenges Firstly, it is very difficult to
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The Theban Mapping Project Critique
The Theban Mapping Project (TMP) is based at the American University in Cairo and has been “working to prepare a comprehensive archeological database of Thebes”
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