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<nettime-ann> mobile research//topology of a future city |
. 'Temporal bandwidth,' is the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar '[delta-] t' considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. [Thomas Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow] _____-micro-research announces the launch of a mobile research laboratory devoted to the use of free software and open hardware within the field of psychogeophysics. Field trips, working groups and occassional workshops are planned for 2010. The first expedition will be titled Topology of a Future City and takes place in early February in Berlin as part of Transmediale10. Topology of a future city proposes a speculative working group divining, describing and thus constructing a future city in ruins; a series of descriptive urban vectors extrapolated from ghosted electromagnetic, signal and literary traces. Borrowing techniques from geophysical archaeology (revealing and mapping of geophysical properties), narrative displacements (filmic manipulations of temporality, science fiction), and coded psychogeographics (tracing signs of underground networks), Topology sketches a model for the future city flaneur. http://www.1010.co.uk/org/topology.html http://www.transmediale.de/en/node/11027 renewed siting: http://www.1010.co.uk/org/ _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann