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Participating Artists and their Works Included:

Tina Andric
Urbanograph no. 9
(Friedrichsplatz, Stuttgart 1855-1912-1969-2003)
Urbanograph no. 6
(Kleiner Schlossplatz, Stuttgart 1794-1855-1975-2005)
Urbanograph no. 8
(Haus der geschichte, Stuttgart 1855-1938-1989-2003)
2004
Tracing Paper

Each of Tina Andric's Urbanographs depicts the history of a specific location in Stuttgart, Germany, revealing what she describes as "the urban processes of building and destroying, of continuity and change." "The process of erasure and transformation," Andric writes, "creates each picture on its own." Andric is an artist and architect in Stuttgart, Germany.

Jeremy Beaudry
Unbinding Boundaries
2003
Sand, debris, and digital documentation
meaning.boxwith.com/urbanlegends

A north-south railroad runs through the center of Champaign, Illinois, separating downtown from a working-class residential neighborhood. For the first project of Unbinding Boundaries, Beaudry spread a narrow band of sand from north to south in a pedestrian underpass beneath the railroad tracks. The evidence of people passing over this boundary as they traveled east and west was mapped by the displacement and disturbance of the sand. In subsequent projects, debris was swept into other forms and again displaced. Beaudry is an artist and freelance designer in Champaign, Illinois.

Jerry Gretzinger
The Gretzinger Map: Ukrainia Panels
1963-2004 (ongoing)
Ink, pencil, acrylic, marker, collage, gouache, and watercolor on paper and board

The Gretzinger Map, begun in 1963, is an ongoing project describing an imaginary landscape. In its entirety, the work currently covers 942 contiguous panels which span an area measuring 27 by 32 feet. Gretzinger is an artist and clothing designer and manufacturer in Cold Spring, New York.

Clare Hilger, Karen Mauney-Brodek, Rodrigo Orduna and anonymous collaborators
The Map as Mental Artifact
2003
Toner, ink, pencil, highlighter, and crayon on paper

Collected for a study at the University of California, Berkeley, these maps were made by residents of the Hayes Valley district of San Francisco. In mapping their rapidly changing neighborhood, respondents indicated features ranging from dangerous intersections to favored bus lines. Some residents showed nearby neighborhoods as disconnected islands; others drew careful street grids that nevertheless notably deleted Octavia Boulevard, a major street that ran beneath a now-demolished freeway. (Project copyright UC Regents, 2003)

Steve Jones
(W)here Have all the Elm Trees (G)one?
2003
Digital Print

In this work, Jones maps his experiences with his home neighborhood, the Elmhurst district of east Oakland. Places he frequently visits and travels through are enlarged, and personal landmarks -- such as the two rottweilers who guard a nearby auto shopûare emphasized. Jones is a graphic designer in Oakland.

Petra Kempf
Met[r]onymy I
2001-2004 (ongoing)
Ink and Pantone on Mylar

Met[r]onymy I is a collection of forty hand-drawn diagrams studying the organization and transformation of urban settings. Translucent copies of the diagrams are overlaid on each other, resulting in fusions that Kempf uses to create a city-based mapping game. Kempf works as an architect and urban designer in New York City.

Christina Marsh
Roxbury, Massachusetts
1999
Wood on cardboard

Marsh's model is based on maps indicating the natural and human-made topographic form of Boston's Roxbury district. With height variations exaggerated, the work represents the sharp changes in elevation where land has been cut and infilled to make way for buildings and streets. Marsh is an architect in San Francisco.

Lea Redmond
Wear/Where
2003
Maps, contact paper, thread

Redmond is a garden teacher and craftsperson in Berkeley.

Adam Rosa
Broadway by Night -- A Sensory Tour of North Beach
2004
Digital photograph

Rosa is an urban designer and city planner who lives in San Francisco.

San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets (Larry Shao)
Where's Your Sweet Spot?
2004
Small plastic flags and digital documentation
whiteflags.org

Where's Your Sweet Spot? surveyed notable and not-so-notable experiences in San Francisco. Participants placed small white flags at spots in the city that had significance for them. They then notified the Bureau of Urban Secrets as to where and why they placed their flags, and Bureau staff, including Shao, photographed the flags to commemorate the spot.

Karin Schaefer
WTC Memorial -- Mapping 911, Model 1
2002
Paint marker on Plexiglas

Wtc Memorial -- Mapping 911, Model 2
2003
Paint marker on acetate with foam core

Schaefer's memorial project is made up of drawings representing the discrete routes by which each of the 2001 World Trade Center victims arrived at that site on September 11. Following train tracks, subway lines, ferry routes, roads, and airplane courses, the lines describe the once-active pattern of collective connection surrounding the buildings. Individual plates in the work describe the motion of people in particular companies or floors. Schaefer is an artist in New York City.

Michelle Sciumbato
We Could Be At Any Moment
2004
Watercolor and ink on wood

The Goat's Eye
2004
Watercolor and ink on wood

Sciumbato is an artist living in Seattle.

SMAQ (Sabine M÷ller, Andreas Quednau)
City Boids -- Molecular Urbanism I: Stop-And-Go Marketing
City Boids -- Molecular Urbanism Ii: Street Vending
City Boids -- Molecular Urbanism Iii: Developmental Housing
2003
Digital prints

The project City Boids -- Molecular Urbanism draws on patterns of motion and growth in Caracas, Venezuela. SMAQ is a collaborative studio for architecture, landscape, and urbanism in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and this project forms part of the Caracas Case Project, initiated by the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany and the Caracas Urban Think Tank.

Douglas Albert Smith
Above-All-6
2004
Digital print on white opaque film

Above-All-6 was shot from the new Hancock Observatory in Chicago. Smith is an architect in the Bay Area.

STILLHERE (Christine Reed and Robin Grossinger)
Cut/Fill
2001
Digital print mounted on foam core

Cut/Fill considers two episodes in the landscape history of San Francisco: the leveling of sand dunes to build the city's Sunset District, and the filling of the marsh near San Bruno Point, where the San Francisco Airport now lies. The source materials include George RussellÐs aerial photographs from the 1920s, as well as maps dating 1855, 1915, and 1968. Stillhere is an art/science team investigating the physical and ecological transformation of the Bay Area; members include Robin Grossinger, Christine Reed, Elise Brewster, Jeremy Thomas, and Susan Schwartzenberg.

TOFU
Map of San Francisco
2001
Mixed media on canvas

Noting that "most of us in San Francisco have our roots somewhere else," Tofu used fragments from maps of other citiesûmany representing places from which residents of the cityÐs neighborhoods comeûto assemble this map of San Francisco. Tofu is an artist in San Francisco.

TOPOTEK 1
Superficial Surfaces 2003
Printed Map
Topotek 1 is a landscape-architecture firm in Berlin.

Rosanna Vitiello
A Map with which to Lose Yourself, Both Anywhere and Everywhere
2003
Digital prints and participatory project

This project invites participants to get lost in their own cities by following a set of generic instructions. The directions, which can be followed in any urban area, are graphically represented in the first print. The second print represents responses sent back, via cell-phone text messages, by teenaged participants in the recent "Text Adventurers" workshop at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Vitiello is a designer living in London.

Aeneas Wilder
Yamanote Line 29.04.2002
2002-2004
Digital Video

On April 29, 2002, Wilder shot this video from a train on central Tokyo's circular Yamanote line. Lasting exactly one hour and one minute, the video documents one complete journey on the above-ground loop. The city is captured on a national holiday and appears in a relatively tranquil state. Wilder is an artist working in several countries around the world. Kristina Young Fight or Flight 2004 Mixed media Young is an artist in Napa, California.

Becky Yust, Lindsay Shen, James Boyd-Brent, Carol Waldron
Twin Cities Odorama: a Smell Map of Minneodorous and Scent Paul
2003-04
Digital Print

Rachel Hutton, Rachel Thompson, Jonathan Zorn, Alissa Clark, Rob Giampietro
Cityspeak: Fifty Sound Stories And Noise
2003
Digital Print and recorded sound

These two maps were commissioned by the University of Minnesota Design Institute, as part of a larger series of "knowledge maps" illustrating sensory aspects of Minneapolis and St. Paul.





				Participating Artists and their Works Included: Tina Andric Urbanograph no. 9 (Friedrichsplatz, Stuttgart 1855-1912-1969-2003) Urbanograph no. 6 (Kleiner Schlossplatz, Stuttgart 1794-1855-1975-2005) Urbanograph no. 8 (Haus der geschichte, Stuttgart 1855-1938-1989-2003) 2004 Tracing Paper Each of Tina Andric's Urbanographs depicts the history of a specific location in Stuttgart, Germany, revealing what she describes as "the urban processes of building and destroying, of continuity and change." "The process of erasure and transformation," Andric writes, "creates each picture on its own." Andric is an artist and architect in Stuttgart, Germany. Jeremy Beaudry Unbinding Boundaries 2003 Sand, debris, and digital documentation meaning.boxwith.com/urbanlegends A north-south railroad runs through the center of Champaign, Illinois, separating downtown from a working-class residential neighborhood. For the first project of Unbinding Boundaries, Beaudry spread a narrow band of sand from north to south in a pedestrian underpass beneath the railroad tracks. The evidence of people passing over this boundary as they traveled east and west was mapped by the displacement and disturbance of the sand. In subsequent projects, debris was swept into other forms and again displaced. Beaudry is an artist and freelance designer in Champaign, Illinois. Jerry Gretzinger The Gretzinger Map: Ukrainia Panels 1963-2004 (ongoing) Ink, pencil, acrylic, marker, collage, gouache, and watercolor on paper and board The Gretzinger Map, begun in 1963, is an ongoing project describing an imaginary landscape. In its entirety, the work currently covers 942 contiguous panels which span an area measuring 27 by 32 feet. Gretzinger is an artist and clothing designer and manufacturer in Cold Spring, New York. Clare Hilger, Karen Mauney-Brodek, Rodrigo Orduna and anonymous collaborators The Map as Mental Artifact 2003 Toner, ink, pencil, highlighter, and crayon on paper Collected for a study at the University of California, Berkeley, these maps were made by residents of the Hayes Valley district of San Francisco. In mapping their rapidly changing neighborhood, respondents indicated features ranging from dangerous intersections to favored bus lines. Some residents showed nearby neighborhoods as disconnected islands; others drew careful street grids that nevertheless notably deleted Octavia Boulevard, a major street that ran beneath a now-demolished freeway. (Project copyright UC Regents, 2003) Steve Jones (W)here Have all the Elm Trees (G)one? 2003 Digital Print In this work, Jones maps his experiences with his home neighborhood, the Elmhurst district of east Oakland. Places he frequently visits and travels through are enlarged, and personal landmarks -- such as the two rottweilers who guard a nearby auto shopûare emphasized. Jones is a graphic designer in Oakland. Petra Kempf Met[r]onymy I 2001-2004 (ongoing) Ink and Pantone on Mylar Met[r]onymy I is a collection of forty hand-drawn diagrams studying the organization and transformation of urban settings. Translucent copies of the diagrams are overlaid on each other, resulting in fusions that Kempf uses to create a city-based mapping game. Kempf works as an architect and urban designer in New York City. Christina Marsh Roxbury, Massachusetts 1999 Wood on cardboard Marsh's model is based on maps indicating the natural and human-made topographic form of Boston's Roxbury district. With height variations exaggerated, the work represents the sharp changes in elevation where land has been cut and infilled to make way for buildings and streets. Marsh is an architect in San Francisco. Lea Redmond Wear/Where 2003 Maps, contact paper, thread Redmond is a garden teacher and craftsperson in Berkeley. Adam Rosa Broadway by Night -- A Sensory Tour of North Beach 2004 Digital photograph Rosa is an urban designer and city planner who lives in San Francisco. San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets (Larry Shao) Where's Your Sweet Spot? 2004 Small plastic flags and digital documentation whiteflags.org Where's Your Sweet Spot? surveyed notable and not-so-notable experiences in San Francisco. Participants placed small white flags at spots in the city that had significance for them. They then notified the Bureau of Urban Secrets as to where and why they placed their flags, and Bureau staff, including Shao, photographed the flags to commemorate the spot. Karin Schaefer WTC Memorial -- Mapping 911, Model 1 2002 Paint marker on Plexiglas Wtc Memorial -- Mapping 911, Model 2 2003 Paint marker on acetate with foam core Schaefer's memorial project is made up of drawings representing the discrete routes by which each of the 2001 World Trade Center victims arrived at that site on September 11. Following train tracks, subway lines, ferry routes, roads, and airplane courses, the lines describe the once-active pattern of collective connection surrounding the buildings. Individual plates in the work describe the motion of people in particular companies or floors. Schaefer is an artist in New York City. Michelle Sciumbato We Could Be At Any Moment 2004 Watercolor and ink on wood The Goat's Eye 2004 Watercolor and ink on wood Sciumbato is an artist living in Seattle. SMAQ (Sabine M÷ller, Andreas Quednau) City Boids -- Molecular Urbanism I: Stop-And-Go Marketing City Boids -- Molecular Urbanism Ii: Street Vending City Boids -- Molecular Urbanism Iii: Developmental Housing 2003 Digital prints The project City Boids -- Molecular Urbanism draws on patterns of motion and growth in Caracas, Venezuela. SMAQ is a collaborative studio for architecture, landscape, and urbanism in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and this project forms part of the Caracas Case Project, initiated by the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany and the Caracas Urban Think Tank. Douglas Albert Smith Above-All-6 2004 Digital print on white opaque film Above-All-6 was shot from the new Hancock Observatory in Chicago. Smith is an architect in the Bay Area. STILLHERE (Christine Reed and Robin Grossinger) Cut/Fill 2001 Digital print mounted on foam core Cut/Fill considers two episodes in the landscape history of San Francisco: the leveling of sand dunes to build the city's Sunset District, and the filling of the marsh near San Bruno Point, where the San Francisco Airport now lies. The source materials include George RussellÐs aerial photographs from the 1920s, as well as maps dating 1855, 1915, and 1968. Stillhere is an art/science team investigating the physical and ecological transformation of the Bay Area; members include Robin Grossinger, Christine Reed, Elise Brewster, Jeremy Thomas, and Susan Schwartzenberg. TOFU Map of San Francisco 2001 Mixed media on canvas Noting that "most of us in San Francisco have our roots somewhere else," Tofu used fragments from maps of other citiesûmany representing places from which residents of the cityÐs neighborhoods comeûto assemble this map of San Francisco. Tofu is an artist in San Francisco. TOPOTEK 1 Superficial Surfaces 2003 Printed Map Topotek 1 is a landscape-architecture firm in Berlin. Rosanna Vitiello A Map with which to Lose Yourself, Both Anywhere and Everywhere 2003 Digital prints and participatory project This project invites participants to get lost in their own cities by following a set of generic instructions. The directions, which can be followed in any urban area, are graphically represented in the first print. The second print represents responses sent back, via cell-phone text messages, by teenaged participants in the recent "Text Adventurers" workshop at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Vitiello is a designer living in London. Aeneas Wilder Yamanote Line 29.04.2002 2002-2004 Digital Video On April 29, 2002, Wilder shot this video from a train on central Tokyo's circular Yamanote line. Lasting exactly one hour and one minute, the video documents one complete journey on the above-ground loop. The city is captured on a national holiday and appears in a relatively tranquil state. Wilder is an artist working in several countries around the world. Kristina Young Fight or Flight 2004 Mixed media Young is an artist in Napa, California. Becky Yust, Lindsay Shen, James Boyd-Brent, Carol Waldron Twin Cities Odorama: a Smell Map of Minneodorous and Scent Paul 2003-04 Digital Print Rachel Hutton, Rachel Thompson, Jonathan Zorn, Alissa Clark, Rob Giampietro Cityspeak: Fifty Sound Stories And Noise 2003 Digital Print and recorded sound These two maps were commissioned by the University of Minnesota Design Institute, as part of a larger series of "knowledge maps" illustrating sensory aspects of Minneapolis and St. Paul.








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