Through its complex orchestration of time and space no less than through the social division of labor, life in the city takes on the character of a symphony: specialized human aptitudes, specialized instruments, give rise to sonorous results which, neither in volume nor in quality, could be achieved by any single piece.” The above words, penned by Lewis Mumford in the introduction to his 1938 text “The Culture of Cities”, speak to the notion of the city as a nexus of social, creative and economic collaboration. In the 1990s, theorists such as William J. Mitchell began to describe a new urban fabric, the materiality of which included not only asphalt and concrete, but bandwidth, code and connectivity. The proliferation of information technology and augmentation of bodies with locative technology has led to new era of artistic engagement with the city.
City of Nodes
Through its complex orchestration of time and space no less than through the social division of labor, life in the city takes on the character of a symphony: specialized human aptitudes, specialized instruments, give rise to sonorous results which, neither in volume nor in quality, could be achieved by any single piece.” The above words, penned by Lewis Mumford in the introduction to his 1938 text “The Culture of Cities”, speak to the notion of the city as a nexus of social, creative and economic collaboration. In the 1990s, theorists such as William J. Mitchell began to describe a new urban fabric, the materiality of which included not only asphalt and concrete, but bandwidth, code and connectivity. The proliferation of information technology and augmentation of bodies with locative technology has led to new era of artistic engagement with the city.
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