This essay, written by Kazys Varnelis and Anne Friedberg, is an introductory statement on the change role of place in network culture.  They break the work up into six sections: place (simultaneous spaces), mobile place (the rise of the tele-cocoon), real virtual worlds, the network and its sociospatial consequences, geospatial web and locative media, and […]

Categories: network · mediated urbanism · mobility · maps · web 2.0

This is a magazine devoted to life, art and culture in Second Life.  Lots of good stuff in here.
Link: Slate Magazine: Second Life Arts Total Entertainment - SL Arts & Total Entertainment Night.

Categories: mediated urbanism

This site is an experiment in art and pedagogy relating to the topic of electronic cities.  Much of the work seems to be focused on situated VR. 
Link: Electronic Cities.

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This is a quick and dirty article about some of the research projects going on at MIT’s Smart City initiative.  I’m really intrigued by the suggestion that programmable pixels can replace "cute new urbanist porches."  Think what you will about new urbanism, but I can’t imagine that something as practical as a porch could be […]

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HBO is getting into the Google Mash-up game.  As a promotional tool for the new season of The Sopranos, you can view scences from the upcoming season plotted onto a map.  How is this fictional mapping different from the story mapping that is taking place in so much digital art?  Aren’t both dissecting narrative and […]

Categories: mediated urbanism · maps

This project brings together Found Magazine with Google maps.  The idea is interesting as a means of public archiving - but it seems to end at archiving.  The cultural desire to archive has seemed to have surpassed the desire to analyze or interpret.  I’d like to see projects like this that attempt to go beyond […]

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In this interview, Rob Shields proposes his view of the emerging field(s) of urban studies.
Link: Eurozine - Articles.
How do we "know" the city - under what conditions does the urban come to be "knowable"? Of course, the city is not an object, properly understood. In everyday life we accept and play along with the […]

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I think it’s great that cities are going wireless.  I think it’s magnfiicent that one day, I’ll be able to open my laptop on any street corner and download the latest on this or that or post to my blog.   I think it’s great that we’re always just a stone’s throw from the information we […]

Categories: mediated urbanism · cities · wi-fi

Link: Smart Growth and the Internet - Government Technology.
One of the more interesting paradoxes — particularly for regions struggling to divine "smart growth" solutions — is that the more we live and work in cyberspace, the more important real place becomes.

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I’m sitting in my hotel room in Montreal after attending the Visible Evidence conference.  It’s been years since I’ve attended this conference, and I’m glad to be back in the fold.  It’s really a quite sophisticated gathering in many respects.  While the discourse on new media leaves something to be desired, the participants are dealing […]

Categories: mediated urbanism · article ideas · digital art