this week's topic is Beyond the Computer Screen

www.thecentralcity.co.uk

"The idea is to look closer at the nature of the city, and how the micro city can be represented as a network of grids and diagrams. The form and content of this work is a representation of the city and its structure. Networks of information technology are contrasted with organic systems and city networks. The project fuses visual forms with the embedded sounds of specific places. The sounds impose a rhythm that the visual narrative can interact with - making the central city an audiovisual, interactive, internet art experience.

I wanted to develop analogies for the organic identity of the city as an urban community, and to make links with electronic networks and virtual communities. This organic interplay is contrasted with man made structures, as well as the patterns and forms of urban design. The online spaces are for dreaming, thinking, meditating and transience. A visual labyrinth, a maze of circumstance. A city experience consists of small unit blocks and cells which inter-relate and lock together to form the composite city identity. The city has moved from metropolis to megalopolis to the ecumenopolis.

These online works represent spaces, they are idealised spaces. I don't see the central city, as a simulation. In fact, I am not aiming or particularly interested in simulation. I view the final evolution of the project as a experience, an online internet experience, which can be viewed inside the white cube of the box which is a computer. The framework, the grid, that contains this work is the computer and the internet. Images of maps redrawing and reprocessing themselves. This reflects the city's perpetual evolution, and no single or similar path need be followed." Stanza

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