Images of Clusters
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real time city – new methodological approach in studying city
Carlo Ratti is director of the senseable lab at MIT, here is a paper on one of their projects – ISpot
http://senseable.mit.edu/papers/pdf/SevtsukRatti2005CUPUM.pdf
And of course Elizabeth Currid’s work on mapping the buzz of NYC:
mapping buzz in NYC
who are the complainers project
who are the complainers?
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urban cultural studies as a discipline
‘Culture Studies in the City’
this one focuses on the city and visuality – the relationship between the physical and the text, sub-theme include:
‘city as site of production and contestation’;
‘place of memory and cultures of forgetting’;
‘questions of identity and representation’;
‘technological mediations of images and texts’;
‘tensions of the visual, material, spatial, linguistic and literary forms’.
http://www.culturalstudies.ace.ed.ac.uk/
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Chinese new media art project
http://nyartsnewmedia.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/research-project-new-media-art-in-china/
ASPECT is the archive for new media art works in the world, their 18th volume on china ‘export china’ has an interesting collection of emerging chinese new media artists:
http://www.aspectmag.org/issue/export-china
five of the best new media artists in China picked by time out shanghai;
http://www.timeoutshanghai.com/features/Art-Art/1466/Chinese-new-media-artists.html
The chinese media art’s official national organisation under the Gehua group Beijing:
http://newmediabeijing.org/md2006/
http://artradarjournal.com/tag/chinese-new-media-artists/
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factory girls – is ‘Apple’ really contributing to the suffers and pains of Chinese workers?
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