[urban interfaces] Blogs
Welcome To Think Much. Cry Much. A Performance Piece That Will Not Change Your Life
— This article is part of the Urban Friction seminar series 2017-2018 — During SPRING festival in May 2018, I visited the performance piece Think Much. Cry Much. by Rima Najdi, which took place within the URBAN HEAT project initiated by the Festival in Transition network. Rima Najdi’s piece came forth from her travels though…
Read moreGraffiti ARtwork: Bypassing Current Legislation
Critical Making: An Inspiring Workshop — This article is part of the Urban Friction seminar series 2017-2018 — The Urban Friction 2017-2018 seminar series, organized by the [urban interfaces] research group, existed of four sessions. In one of those sessions, participants were invited to partake in a two-day pressure cooker revolving around the idea of…
Read moreVisiting guest: Helen Pritchard
As an artist and geographer, my interdisciplinary work brings together the fields of Computational Aesthetics, Geography, Design and Feminist TechnoScience. My practice is both one of writing and making and these two modes mutually inform each other in order to consider the impact of computational practices on our engagement with environments. Central to my work…
Read moreVisiting guest: Saskia Freeke
I’m an artist, creative coder, interaction designer, visual designer and educator. My work focuses on structure, geometry and playfulness. A big part of my artistic practice is my ongoing daily art project that I started January 2015. Here I explore and experiment with generative patterns and animations daily. You can follow my daily art on…
Read more“Situated Installations for Urban Data Visualization: Interfacing the Archive-City” by Nanna Verhoeff and Karin van Es
From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street. Today, advancements in digital technologies of the image have given rise to the production and dissemination of imagery of streets and…
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