Urban Drifts. Table of Contents Project DescriptionDomains of Design ConceptResearch and Design QuestionsTerminologyPrecedencePrototypesSound PsychogeographyFindings and Next StepsAcknowledgmentsReferences Here is a link to the final paper. Urban Drifts is a series of research–driven bicycle rides through New York City that make use of the Situationist International concept of the dérive and tracks the course of the rides using GPS technology. At the outset, the goal of the project was to use the series of dérives as a probe and information gathering technique to create a set of photographic works and psychogeographic maps of New York City. The reason for the project is my interest in exploring the connection between urban landscapes and the emotions and actions of the inhabitants of that urban space and looking to see what new insights technology (primarily GPS tracking) and psychogeographic maps can shed on this relationship.
Domains of Design Concept Research and Design Questions Terminology Precedence. Obituary: Ralph Rumney. The artist, writer and co-founder of the Situationist International, Ralph Rumney, has died of cancer at his home in Manosque, Provence, aged 67. Interviewed in The Map Is Not The Territory, a study of his life and works by Alan Woods, he said: "I think the trick, as far as possible, is to be sort of anonymous within this society. You know, to sort of vanish. " Indeed, until the publication last year of that marvellous book, Ralph seemed almost to have been forgotten in his home country, except by those of us fortunate enough to have known him.
In 1989, the Tate bought one of his paintings, The Change, dating from 1957. And there have been a few retrospective shows of his work in the last few years, most recently in his home town of Halifax. Ralph produced a vast body of work over the years - from informal abstracts to large canvases using gold and silver leaf, from plaster moulds to polaroids, montages and videos.
But only now are these being reassembled and reassessed. The Situationist International Text Library. The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International. McKenzie Wark, "The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International " Publisher: Verso | ISBN 10: 1844677206 | 2011 | PDF | 224 pages | 4 MB Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, they continue to influence activists, artists and theorists. From the Invisible Committee's bestselling The Coming Insurrection to Iain Sinclair's psychogeographic explorations, their work is still found to be rich with possibilities, yet its breadth and diversity is still unexplored. In the first account since Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces (1989), McKenzie Wark traces the Situationist International's beginnings in 1950s bohemian Paris up to the explosive days of May 1968.
This account puts the legendary figure of Guy Debord back into the context of the other fascinating figures who made up the movement, including Constant, Asger Jorn, Michèle Bernstein and Jacqueline De Jong. No Mirrors!!! Head Shop: Situationism in a nutshell. The Situationist International (SI) was formed in 1957 by a merger of Guy Debord’s Lettrist International and Asger Jorn’s International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus (IMIB), two post-war continental art groups. The IMIB could claim descent from the COBRA art group. A third art group, the London Psychogeographical Society, was claimed to have joined at the time but was invented to add to the internationalist claims of the SI. For the early part of its existence the SI continued with the artistic work of the Lettrist International, but moved to being a group of political theorists and agitators following a split in 1962.
The SI form part of a utopian anti-art tradition that goes back to Futurism, Dada and Surrealism. The group had approximately 70 members over the course of it’s history, but due to frequent expulsions the number of members at any one time was never more than about 10 to 20. The SI has a reputation for scandal and subversion. The SI’s Artistic Phase May 68.