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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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Tag: graffiti

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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Walking the Data Set: Spatial Reading of Graffiti Removal

December 12, 2011 christo Process Blog

I took the City’s graffiti locations data set for a walk last Sunday in Brooklyn using the graffiti web app. As discussed in my last

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Visualizations of Graffiti Location Data Set

November 27, 2011 christo Process Blog

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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Rummaging a Data Set: Identifying the Gaps

November 24, 2011 christo Process Blog

“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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graff/it/i new york city

graff/it/i new york city web app

November 2, 2011 christo Process Blog

I believe that a key part of making a spatial argument is to situate it in the very geospatial context of the reader. I want

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Cartograffic Rewrites – Mapping the Mechanism of Graffiti Removal

October 11, 2011 christo Process Blog, Project Proposal

  Graffiti in New York City plays the part in a well defined administrative feedback loop. After the street art is illegally applied to an

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