Locate-Navigate : Exercises in Mapping, Urban Culture Project

Urban Culture Project

Charlotte Street Foundation CharlotteStreet.org

Part 1 opens at Project Space, 21 East 12th Street, on Friday, January 18, 6-9 pm and runs through March 8.

Part 2 opens at la Esquina, 1000 West 25th Street, on Friday February 1, 6-9 pm and runs through March 22.

Sitemap (resin, nails, enamel, acrylic, glitter, flocking, wood) 9 pieces, approx 28" x 24" installed.
Virtual Tourist (resin, nails, enamel, acrylic, flocking, wood) 12" x 12"

· One paragraph description of/narrative about the work

'Sitemap' is an exploration of 3 concepts I'm very interested in... memory palaces, virtual worlds and the evolution of the internet. A memory palace is a mentally constructed architecture or location which has been used since ancient times as a mnemonic device for the recollection of intentionally embedded information. A sitemap is typically used in web-based information architecture to enable a more thorough exploration of a website's content by search engines. Virtual worlds are increasingly being used as social, interactive and collaboratively built spaces within which we may share aspects of ourselves and our information/ideas with others. 3 I'm inspired by visions of what seems likely to emerge from the melding of these tools and the implications for learning and memory in time. Within layers of clear resin I've mapped out an external memory palace with locations for placing information or images I would like to recall. It may be used as an armature for a theoretically infinite number of different exercises.
Cyburbia statement

UCP will take a 25% commission on all work sold from the exhibitions. Artists will be paid within 30 days of the closing of the exhibition.