You Get My Psychogeographic Drift?

Here's the poster I made on the Situationist Cities. I used a psychogeographic map that the Situationists produced for the city of Paris, and overlaid imagery from ideas that the Situationists developed over time about architecture and urban planning. The poster uses and depicts the Situationist concepts of detournment and the derive. The poster might be a bit too cryptic for anyone not familiar with the Situationists to draw a lot of meaning from. However, if it's piqued your interest, check out the Situationist International Anthology.

My Situationist Situation

So, I'm sitting here trying to digest the complex and often contradictory philosophies of the Situationist International so I can construct some sort of coherent paper on the Situationist Cities. Guy Debord and his gang are kind of blowing my mind. I decide to take a break to clear my head. I check my Twitter feed in hopes of reading some interesting news of a little lighter nature. Well, what do I run into but this, posted about 10 minutes ago by the NY Times. A story about an underground (literally) art show in which no art will be sold and almost nobody invited to view it. Read about it.
I guess I should get back to work. No rest for my mind.

Yikes...Its Halloween

Another Contemporary Clothes Pin...

This is really a response to Courtney's post about the contemporary clothes pin art in Berlin. We saw this one in Philadelphia this summer. Apparently it was installed in 1976 by artist Claes Oldenburg. It was interesting to see, but more interesting were the dudes in red and white speaking their mind.

True Dangers of Genetically Modified Cows!

Seniorenspielplatz

I really love this art installation in Germany. What is it about? An artist in Germany was mad about the government allocating more funds for senior citizens than children. The installation is a rather absurd-looking playground for seniors. Check out the sign...a seesaw with a wheelchair weighing down a child's seat. Clearly an installation that might anger some. Isn't that what art should do? If not piss you off, it should at least make you think. I'm sure many people have looked at this one with a quizzical eye. This installation actually influenced some of the elements in my design project for the Whitfield/Scales site.

A little more information on this project and a lot of other interesting things can be found on Public Workshop Blog.

Project 1 Presentations

So, we wrapped up the presentations for Project 1 today. All in all, everybody did well. Though no design was without fault, most of us learned a lot in the process. Seeing everything that everybody else produced and getting feedback about my own project gave me a lot to think about for future designs. I'm almost ready to start a new project. Almost.

Here are a few photos from the presentations:



Jeremiah scrutinizing Derek's
massing model



Courtney scrutinizing Charles'
detail model