By Nato Thompson, from “Experimental Geography” Experimental geography is about asking questions rather than providing answers: a new field that broadens the frame through which we see our culture. Artists at the CLUI serve as facilitators: “each artist simply points to the phenomena that condition our lives.” Guy Debord: father of psychogeography. How does our [...]
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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Sep 03
“Measures of Rule”
“… measures of rule are those that delineate and coordinate particular sequences of events.” The marks of sequence, schedule, and timing are read in the landscape in the form of how people inhabit and measure place. The deviations, typically out of necessity, from the ordering system stimulate invention and a deployment of new rules and [...]
Sep 03
“Measures of Land”
“Measure… is as much a conceptual apparatus as it is a mode of representation, facilitating events while constructing a particular world.” When people began migrating across America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the vastness of the landscape created the need for surveys, inventories, and maps to be prepared. Zoning and property allotments became the [...]