senseofplace LAB – laurie halsey brown

Sutro Baths, San Francisco
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archaeology. / sea walls and tagged water. / urban mirror floats.

Infinite City by Rebecca Solnit
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http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=40538

By Danielle Sommer | Dec 26, 2010 | For KQED Arts
“Every place is if not infinite then practically inexhaustible, and no quantity of maps will allow the distance to be completely traversed.” Rebecca Solnit’s newest book, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, comes at the end of a year-long collaboration between Solnit and SFMOMA, through which Solnit has explored both the concept of the map and the city of San Francisco, from multiple angles and through various media. Solnit starts with the premise that each of San Francisco’s eight hundred thousand inhabitants has his or her own way of mapping the city, if not more than one. …MORE

‘Store’ near Trader Joes – San Francisco
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stor. / meditation on commerce. / looks good in this light.

Michaela Melián: Memory Loops 300 Audio Tracks on Sites of NS Terror in Munich 1933–1945
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www.memoryloops.net

Memory Loops in the Munich city area

Memory Loops is an audio artwork largely based on the transcription of historical and recent material from victims of National Socialism and contemporary witnesses: witnesses of the discrimination, persecution and exclusion to which people in Munich were subjected under the NS regime. The reports and interviews have been transcribed and recorded by actors and actresses, with children reading the historical documents.

Signs around the city with telephone numbers provide direct-dial access to 60 audio tracks associated with a particular location at local rates.These 60 voice-collages are also available as an iPhone App (via the App store) which contains additional information such as a city map with location markers. Direct navigation to the relevant sites is possible via the phone’s GPS mode.

All the voices have been embedded within the constant flow of an original musical score which links the individual text sequences. Melián used for the composition fragments of historical recordings of works by Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Kurt Weill and Coco Schumann and arranged them into one delicate, atmospheric sound.

GALILEE HARBOR- Sausalito, CA
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sentient, immersed. / sun-drenched neighbors look at peace. / adrift but anchored.

TRISKELION: STAR-SHAPED CONTAINER FOR PRESIDIO HABITATS
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http://www.oparch.net/

San Francisco Architects Zoë Prillinger and Luke Ogrydziak, known for their progressive, modern designs that include new media technologies, have created a Presidio Habitats Exhibition Pavilion from repurposed shipping containers arranged at 120 degree angles around a central atrium.

The FOR-SITE Foundation in partnership with the Presidio Trust is presenting Presidio Habitats, a site-based exhibition created for the Presidio of San Francisco, a 1,491-acre National Historic Landmark and national park site.>>http://www.for-site.org/

MARIN COUNTY FAIR – Marin, CA
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2 buckets, 2 bales. / bright yellow striped tent shelters them. / They must feel our eyes.

HOUSES IN TRANSFORMATION
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http://www.naipublishers.nl/architecture/houses_transformation.html

“Houses in Transformation; Interventions in European Gentrification”
Editors: Jap Jan Berg, Tahl Kaminer, Marc Schoonderbeek, Joost Zonneveld

When we seek to revitalize deprived urban areas in Europe, the renewal of the built environment is not only the central theme: the demographic profile of the residents is also transformed. These processes of gentrification are at the heart of this book. Do they really improve the area? Which residents tend to benefit? And what is the role of art and culture in this development?