UNIT SEARCH

Rebuilding New York City’s landscape by numeric association

Collages

The following collages where made by relating the pattern of the multiples of a given number, to the corresponding cell(s) in the 1-100 number square.

(The rest of the collages are under contruction)

NX5

NX7

SEE ANIMATION

1-100 Number Square
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city grid

The units were searched in an expedition trough one hundred corners in Manhattan. The idea was to overlay the 1-100 number square grid to the physical grid that blocks make on the city.

The corresponding units(s) to each block (cell in the grid) were registered in a way that it/they could represent as clearly a possible an element of a whole, in this case the city.

New York City (Manhattan, mid-town)

SEE THE PROCESS

The Units

Although some units are represented in an abstract, metaphorical or even inexact way the journey was completed.

SEE THE IMAGES

Unit search is the foundation work of a progresive art project. It is the core idea for working with a database a grid and the physical landscapes of cities. It is useful to illustrate numerous concepts; for example how criteria for collecting data and criteria used to associate information can crate new messages. In this case how the way information is displayed from the database can affect the whole way we perceive the city.

This project started as a form of gathering information to recreate landscapes. The way the information was collected (images of NY), was done in an authoritarian way and

followed, as much as possible, very precise routines.

At this state the project is in a point where I have imposed the way the information is presented to the public, it is closed and has no way of being altered or activated.

My goal is to create an interactive way to reassociate this images. Here the spectator won’t have to wait for the piece to unfold. I would like it to react, to do the opposite cities do on us, the city would we be seeing, hearing and feeling the citizen, probably living in him or her.

The next step would be to overlay the grid system I used in this project on different cities, the cities must share the block architecture that the streets make; create the landscape of a city of cities, a foster mega metropolis that could be any but none. In this case constructed by this absurd tight authoritarian way of collecting and displaying information, highlighting that sensation of similarity now most big cities face.

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