The following is a proposal for the initial course offerings for the Curricular Pilot Project component of a proposal to establish "HyperArt Laboratory," a research center dedicated to the development, production and dissemination of a form of place-based virtual reality developed over the past decade as "Imaging Place".
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Corequisite:
This course require that students simultaneously enroll in VM 420b: Imaging Place Production.
Prerequisite:
Senior standing undergraduate or graduate, any major.
Dates, Times, Location:
Summer 2007.
Description:
Cities are always in transit. They are often buried by speculation, progress and history, and are, just as often, resurrected by those same forces. Currently, cities throughout the world are undergoing significant changes as history and progress get commodified and repurposed by developers. With themed entertainment centers anchoring most urban renewal efforts (Hollywood and Highland in Hollywood, California, Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany, the Waterfront in Baltimore, Maryland, and many more), the mediation of history has become central to the identity and experience of urban areas. Aided by the near-ubiquitous presence of media technologies, urban citizens are becoming consumers, neatly categorized into markets and targeted demographics. As city space and advertising space become blurred, the phenomenon of mobility, once liberating for the individual in the city, is now predicted and monetized. Likewise, just as the economic realities of urban areas are becoming increasingly multinational, the commodified history and geography of urban space is becoming increasingly localized. In other words, just as capital is dispersed across global networks, history and geography are frozen so that they may be portrayed as stable and comforting.
With this course, we intend to intervene in this process of urban petrifaction by allowing the city to unfold through distributed navigation and excavation. We want to explore methods of networked cartography wherein spatial documentation emerges across networks; where knowledge of location is intentionally de-localized. The course will focus on...
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