walking the data set: spatial reading of graffiti removal

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 post, mapping and animating the graffiti locations…

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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 set and how those point back to the discursive…

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striking lines to punching buttons: surrealist erasures and the mechanical writing method

Crosses and Commands - Surrealist Manifesto

- from Andre Breton’s The Automatic Message

To understand surrealist automatic writing, we might think of typing without backspace or undo. In the process of writing this first sentence, I…

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the first urban implosion 2.2

Aswan High Dam

Lake Nasser

Lake Nasser 2

Alhazen was asked to build a dam on the Nile in the 11th Century by the vindictive and ruthless caliph al-Hakim. In surveying the selected site, Alhazen determined that…

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This city is not about other people or buildings or streets but about your mental structure. If we remember what Kafka writes about his Castle, we get a sense of it. Cities really are mental conditions.
Ai Weiwei (via)

(Source: proustitute, via kristinesamson)

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griffinabox:

The Death Revealer iPhone App

To raise awareness of the traffic accidents that are happening every day in Moscow, Leo Burnett created an iPhone Augmented Reality App that revealed the injuries and accidents in the location they actually happened. This one really pulls on the heart strings, drumming home the reality of your actions if you drive unsafely.

The campaign was supported with ambient activity that drove people to download the app while out and about. In a nod to the white lines that are drawn around bodies, their faces were replaced with QR codes, splattered with blood.

ambient QR codes showed victims in situe

Via The Ad Buzz.

(via mattermedia)

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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought”

… and so: “Targeted memory erasure and enhancement may be possible,” says neuroscientist Andre Fenton in response to that Guatama Siddharta quote.

This lecture appears to be part of a series…

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new camera arrived in the mail today

new camera arrived in the mail today

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16mm bolex film we shot back in February.
will be showing it at ruff cuts this friday may 23, 2011 at the new school university (free admission). 

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So many great things to see in the city yesterday, but the Homeless Museum of Art may just have been my favourite. (That really is a taxidermied dog next to the booth.)

So many great things to see in the city yesterday, but the Homeless Museum of Art may just have been my favourite. (That really is a taxidermied dog next to the booth.)

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Lost hosting for christodeklerk.com. I have been deliberating the move away from godaddy for awhile, but will likely make a full move later this year. For now, will try hosting christodeklerk on tumblr.

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Critical Themes in Media Studies at the New School

Critical Themes 2011

I am very excited to be attending and presenting at the New School University’s annual Critical Themes in Media Studies graduate student conference. It is this Friday and Saturday,…

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AGAMEMNON

My sister has a play on this week in Montreal. If you’re in or near Montreal, go see it.

McGill Classical Studies presents the 2011 Classics Play, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, in a new…

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the paleolithic-neolithic union (1.8)

the cultural union of neolithic and paleolithic peoples.

so masculinity dominated and sadistic rigour took over from easy-paced routine.

advent of masculine gods associated with power. myths of…

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the virtue of planned erasure

Save by Delete Date, based on an idea by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

What if you were asked to set an expiration date for every file you saved on your computer? Imagine what would take place on that date. Your file would be automatically erased from your…

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