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March 9, 2007
Atlantic Yards, Invisible Borders
adaptivelandscapes.com
A cool (in all senses of the word) slideshow, documenting the border of the Atlantic Yards footprint. Link
Artist, Christian Marc Schmidt:
Using sequenced still images, I trace paths around political and/or historical boundaries within cities, borders which may have had, or will have, a profound influence on the urban morphology of a city.
Further explanation from the artist.
My interest lies in the boundaries of the area, within which this tension is inherent. The border itself is the interface between old and new, between reality and idea. It is an anticipatory space, in which one can experience the friction or harmony resulting from the collision of ideas—the idea of now, of what the place is, and the idea of possibility, of what it could become. Programmatically, boundaries shape any future development, yet also contain the memory of what a place used to be, or what it might have been.
Posted by lumi at March 9, 2007 10:44 AM