Archive for the ‘Theory’ Category
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April 30: Breaking Out and Breaking In Panel Discussion at Studio-X
27 Apr 2012On Monday April 30, Columbia University’s Studio-X NYC is hosting the final panel to wrap up the Breaking Out and…
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The David Leaves Its Site to be Received in a Manhattan Traffic Jam
14 Mar 2012[Michelangelo's David being scanned by The Digital Michelangelo Project] Last week a crotch-shot appeared in my twitter stream. Now, this…
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The Pink Bathroom: Virtual and Physical Reconstructions of a Crime Scene
05 Mar 2012Augmented reality technology may soon be the newest gadget available to crime scene investigators. A researcher at the Delft University…
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The Same Things Happen: On Repetition On RepetitiOn Repetitionrepetition
02 Feb 2012
[still from Groundhog Day, dir. Harold Ramis (1993)] The same things happen. The spray-painted tag was written on a crumbling…
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FUGITIVE GEOGRAPHIES: Yale School of Architecture Graduate Symposium
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Ghostmodernism
21 Oct 2010
[Harold Lime, Walter Gropius, and others look on as the Static Engine is activated for the first time.] French playwright…
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Tactical Urbanism
01 Sep 2010
Seemingly oblivious to the city around her, the young woman takes the mobile phone from her ear and presses a…
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Over-caffeinated, under-employed, and Bored to Death
17 Mar 2010
It all seems so simple in retrospect. I wanted a cup of coffee, I got a cup of coffee. But…
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The Heroics of Scale
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Subverting the Spectacle of Modern Times: Charlie Chaplin and the Situationists
20 Sep 2009[Still from Modern Times] “The construction of situations begins beyond the ruins of the modern spectacle. It is easy to…