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This assignment involves choosing one of the cities described in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, and visualizing, re-presenting/representing it. The choice of media is part of the creative process, you are free to use any material, any technology, any medium from paper collages to video footage to sound recordings.
Inspirational Resources:
- Invisible Cities edition with twelve drawings of sites and artifacts by artist Wayne Thiebaud (by Arion Press). Artist Wayne Thiebaud contributed twelve drawings of cities and objects that would be invisible until the reader turns the page. Andrew Hoyem designed the book with drawings printed on transparent sheets in different colors of inks, each matching the color of the following sheet. This includes nine colored sheets plus two black sheets interspersed throughout the book as backgrounds for eleven of the drawings. The twelfth and final drawing is printed in silver grey, camouflaged against the aluminum back cover. The images are revealed only when the transparent sheet is turned back over onto the preceding page, which is a white sheet with printed text on it. This allows the drawing and the words to read together. One copy at Brown's John Hay Library.
- Some notes in the class blog City Thoughts
Due: February 7th, 2007 by 5 pm, to Omur at Joukowsky Institute, or better: posted on the wiki (here).
Octavia: Chris Oates
Thin Cities 5, pg. 75. "Suspended over the abyss, the life of Octavia's inhabitants is less uncertain than in other cities. They know the net will last only so long."
Italo Calvino's Tamara: Sarah Dawson
Submitted February 6, 2007 by Sarah Dawson
Phyllis: Noah Wiener
Ersilis: Rachel Moranis
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Euphemia: Kelsey Peterson
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Baucis: Bochay Drum
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Zora: Daniela Alvarado
Calvino describes Zora as a place which “cannot be expunged from the mind is like an armature, a honey-comb in whose cells each of us can place the things he wants to remember.” Lately I have been thinking about how different cultures have different material traditions in part because of their geographic location, but also in part because of the techniques and ideas that have been developed within their cultures over the years. Thinking about regional architecture in cities and has had me thinking that for many people, memory of the built environment has a lot to do with texture and materiality of place, for example the repeating patterns of stone and mortar. This is why Calvino’s Zora stood out to me. I began thinking about the patterns and the textures that surround me in Providence and in College Hill, and unlike the man from Zora who uses the patterns to remember his city piece by piece, I began to feel that I am less aware of the patterns surrounding me. So I went on a walk and I created a photo essay of the patterns I found, starting in my very dorm room, and ending with the pattern on a friend’s skirt.
by: Daniela Alvarado
Isaura
The city of the thousand wells “is said to rise over a deep, subterranean lake… Its green border repeats the dark outline of the buried lake; an invisible landscape conditions the visible one; everything that moves in the sunlight is driven by the lapping waves enclosed beneath the rock’s calcareous sky.”
Please download the quicktime clip and select "Loop" from the view menu before pressing play:
(John Anderson 2/7/2007)
Zemrude: Kate Janke.
Providence with a camera (Zemrude) (pdf)
Tamara: Michelle Beaulieu
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Tamara Front
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