“It is the map that precedes the territory,” says Jean Baudrillard. There are few greater examples of this adage in practice than historical maps of
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What Is a BitCity? Nov. 4
What is a BitCity? 11.04.11 9:00AM – 6:00PM Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall Conference: BitCity: Transportation, Data, and Technology in Cities Michael Batty, Kenneth Crew, Matt
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The Bowery Artist Tribute Map
The Bowery Artist Tribute explores the presence of artists and art production in the Bowery. The project’s goal is to reveal the Bowery as an
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Made In New York: A Historical Survey of Woody Allen Film Locations
JJ Maxwell Project Proposal Urban Media Archaeology Professor Shannon Mattern Project Description For over forty years, Woody Allen has been one of the
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Mapping the Cultural Buzz: How Cool is that? and the relationship to my Music Mapping Project
For my map critique I decided to look at a mapping project called, “The Geography of Buzz”. This project was conducted using geographic information systems
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Youth Media Map
Mapping the Youth Media Landscape of New York City Problem Statement and Research Question: Teenagers are described as knowing how to use media technologies better
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A History of the World in 100 Seconds
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
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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Mapping Manhattan’s Coffee Addiction
I am not sure if someone was mapping coffee shops…or just book stores in Manhattan. But as I was researching for my map critique I
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Orit Halpern: Archiving the Senses October 19th @ 4:15
Orit Halpern: Archiving the Senses October 19th, 4:15-5:30 Room 5307 | The CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Free and open to
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