Maps and Journeys : Initial Project Idea?

I wanted to stay away from more obvious forms of journeys and look at it from a different perspective. I have been thinking of a few ideas, but they are only very rough and I am currently not exactly sure

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Maps and Journeys : Psychogeography Task Idea

My idea for the task is to go out around a previous unexplored part of Farnham in a random pattern and take photos of the environment and anything I find interesting or unusual on the journey. Once I have gathered

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Maps and Journeys : Screening Two

Leah gave us each an artist to research over an extended lunch break for a presentation and I was given Mariele Neudecker. Born in 1965 in Dusseldorf, Germany, she currently lives and works in the UK. In her work she likes

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Maps and Journeys - Psychogeography

What is psychogeography? Psychogeography involves 'drifting' around urban environments, with emphasis on playfulness and new experiences, in a geographic approach. Guy Debord, a French filmmaker, writer and Marxist theorist, defined it in 1955 as 'the study of the precise laws and

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Maps and Journeys : Installation Art

During screening one, Rosie also showed us various installation pieces to give us an idea of the sort of stuff we could make, interactive wise. Blind Light Blind Light by Antony Gormley is an installation made up of a luminous glass

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Maps and Journeys : Screening One

London Orbital (2002) British directors Chris Petit and Ian Sinclair take us on a journey through the M25, trying to unearth secrets and stories behind London's orbital motorway. With the use of found footage and low quality video, as well as

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