project title
One Block Radius
Walking tour and presentation
project description
One Block Radius is an extensive psychogeographic survey of the block where New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art will build a new 60,000 square foot facility beginning in late 2004.This block spans the area from Bowery to Chrystie Street and from Stanton Street to Rivington Street.
While the block is bit-size in relation to the surrounding metropolis, the changes it is about to undergo are massive. One Block Radius plays with this idea of scale, aiming to zoom in and physically data-mine the tiny area for the amount of information one would normally find in a guide book for an entire city. This feature-rich urban record will include personal perspectives from diverse sources such as city workers, children, street performers, artists and architectural historians. Engaging a variety of tools and media such as blogs, video documentation, maps, field recordings and interviews, Glowlab will create a multi-layered portrait of the block as it has never been seen before (and will never be seen again).
Organized by Anne Barlow and Defne Ayas for the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
name
Glowlab [Dave Mandl, Christina Ray]
location
Brooklyn, New York
profile
Dave Mandl
Dave Mandl was born in Brooklyn, where he still lives. His photography has been exhibited in New York and various European cities, and will be featured in the book Signs, to be co-published by COLORS magazine and Taschen. In 2002, he collaborated with British sound-artist Peter Cusack on Your Favourite London Sounds, a CD collection of field recordings and photos of London based on a massive survey of London natives. He also edits books for Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia and produces a weekly radio show at WFMU-FM in Jersey City. He co-produced the Psy-Geo-Conflux 2003 with Christina Ray.
Christina Ray
Christina Ray was born in San Diego and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her projects include mixed-media installations based on urban walks and street photography, as well as experimental psychogeographic walks, public-space works and web-based projects. In 2002, Ray founded Glowlab, a multimedia arts lab, and in 2003 co-produced the first Psy.Geo.Conflux. Her work is represented by DCKT Contemporary in New York.
links
One Block Radius
Glowlab