Creative Cities are built on top of existing communities, strip-mining them of their natural resources, displacing residents, cultural practices, community infrastructure and replacing vital social safety nets with simulacra of pre-existing forms. Middle and upper middle class consumers are celebrated for their ability to consume and territorialize hip, urban spaces. Meanwhile, the working poor are left to work in precarious, low-wage "uncreative" jobs that sustain creative lifestyles, living in increasingly expensive and inaccessible neighbourhoods.
While Creative City rhetoric touts a potential to invent economic powerhouses of major cities across the world, with trickle down benefits to existing communities, the practices of these economic initiatives often leave behind a devastation of neighbourhoods. Once culturally rich and economically viable, they become a playground for developers and investors looking for short term gain.
With this exhibition we are looking for artwork that explores processes of strip-mining, replica and simulacra as they relate to Creative Cities.
14 July 2008
Creative Cities / Strip Mines
STRIP MINING FOR CREATIVE CITIES?
09 July 2008
Tad and Molly: is it OK to flirt on Facebook? - Times Online
Tad and Molly: is it OK to flirt on Facebook? - Times Online:
Divergent views on Facebook--a way to find out about someone. A way of letting someone find out about you. Relevant information / too much information. Surely, one puts forward the kind of impression of oneself that one imagines will be attractive or acceptable, but it is still information. The question is, perhaps, does one have to reveal oneself in order to have access to information about the other?
Tad: Who said they were? Social networking sites are the modern-day answer to the 19th-century collector's display case of curiosities.
Molly: I'd say they are a stalking mechanism for sexual predators and their prey.
Tad: That too. But where you find fault, I see merit. Facebook is a cheap alternative to hiring a private investigator. Once you're “friends” with someone, you can look at their photos, see what they've been up to and who they were touching while they were doing it.You can also check who their friends are and generally vet a potential love interest.
Divergent views on Facebook--a way to find out about someone. A way of letting someone find out about you. Relevant information / too much information. Surely, one puts forward the kind of impression of oneself that one imagines will be attractive or acceptable, but it is still information. The question is, perhaps, does one have to reveal oneself in order to have access to information about the other?
globeandmail.com: Buddying up to the boss on Facebook
globeandmail.com: Buddying up to the boss on Facebook:
This is the issue. The need to find a way to manage the intersection of a personal network and a work related network / a social identity and what Manuel Castells calls a "project identity"
How do you respond to requests to connect with superiors, peers and other work-related people in a forum created mainly to share personal material about life outside of work?
This is the issue. The need to find a way to manage the intersection of a personal network and a work related network / a social identity and what Manuel Castells calls a "project identity"
Handwritten Typographers
Handwritten Typographers:
My hand writing gets more and more cryptic. If I had to choose a font to represent it, the font would have to be something spidery and illegible...
In these days where looping strokes have been replaced by keyboard clickety-clack, typographers define the style and tone of our missives. Would you like to be elegant, modern, childish or ... disturbed? Then you can choose between Garamond, Montag, Comic Sans, Zebraflesh, and a thousand more.
My hand writing gets more and more cryptic. If I had to choose a font to represent it, the font would have to be something spidery and illegible...
02 July 2008
Time for Facebook addicts to face the music - Times Online
Time for Facebook addicts to face the music - Times Online
It may or may not be now, but it will probably end up that way for most people. What was once open and inviting, offering new possibility, becomes overcrowded and difficult to manage. The openness that was attractive becomes oppressive.
Facebook defines itself as ‘a social utility that connects you with the people around you’. This could not be further from the truth. Far from serving as an umbilical cord of friendship for the socially deprived, Facebook actively damages interpersonal relationships, harms job prospects, wastes time, and ultimately turns die-hard users totally reclusive.
It may or may not be now, but it will probably end up that way for most people. What was once open and inviting, offering new possibility, becomes overcrowded and difficult to manage. The openness that was attractive becomes oppressive.
CCS Methodology | Critical Code Studies
CCS Methodology | Critical Code Studies: "CCS Methodology
Ξ November 1st, 2007 | → | ∇ test |
To promote close reading of software within socio-historical contexts, CCS offers a set of reading practices to interpret specific aspects of the code. Below is an intial list of “what can be read.” (This list is hardly exclusive but meant more as a starting point for methodologies to be developed at greater length over the course of this blog and the writings related to CCS.)"
Ξ November 1st, 2007 | → | ∇ test |
To promote close reading of software within socio-historical contexts, CCS offers a set of reading practices to interpret specific aspects of the code. Below is an intial list of “what can be read.” (This list is hardly exclusive but meant more as a starting point for methodologies to be developed at greater length over the course of this blog and the writings related to CCS.)"
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