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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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Cinema Treasures

November 30, 2011 fishmatt33 Map Critique

Cinematreasures.org is an internet database of movie theaters throughout the world that got started in 2000 to unite movie theaters with patrons by creating an

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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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A Concrete Example (finally!)

November 30, 2011 sienna Process Blog

I can finally say, with a high degree of certainty, that I will have, by the first week of December, a substantial amount of images

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Paper Prototypes — Posthumously Posted

November 30, 2011 Shannon Class Announcement
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Spatial Arguments

November 30, 2011 Shannon Class Announcement

How much should we expect our plotted data to “speak for themselves”? How much framing and context do we need to provide? What combination of

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Joaquín Torres García, Inverted Map of South America (1943)

Inverted Map of South America

November 30, 2011 Maria Map Critique

  After reading James Corner’s text, The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention, I remembered an emblematic artwork of Latin American 20th Century art

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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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Search and Re-Search

November 29, 2011 Jonathan Process Blog

Over the past three weeks I’ve focused my efforts on research, generating the “stuff” that will form the basis of my URT project, with the recent dossier review

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The Forgotten Space — a Film About Global Shipping Infrastructures

November 28, 2011 Shannon Event, Events

The Forgotten Space. A Film by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch Monday, December 5, 2011, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. The New School, Tishman Auditorium 66

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“Tour Guides Nobody Tips”

November 28, 2011 fishmatt33 Class Announcement, In the News

Just read this in the Sunday New York Times Metropolitan section, thought these may be relevant for a few projects.  The last time I tried

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