ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING

Our second book-related event is a launch party co-hosted by the University of Minnesota Design Institute and the Waag Society for Old and New Media, in Amsterdam:

Saturday June 10, 2006, 5-7 pm at Arti et Amicitiae, Rokin 112, 1012 LB Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Join us for

GLOBAL TRACINGS,
short presentations by ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING contributors
Renee Turner, De Geuzen, Amsterdam,
Jeremy Wood, GPS Drawing, London,
Ronald Wall, Faculty of Applied Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and
Esther Polak, beeldidiktee co-creator, Amsterdam Real Time and the MILK Project

followed by book signing, celebratory drinks and conversation. Book sales at Arti courtesy of Nijhof & Lee booksellers.

Kindly RSVP to design@umn.edu with "E/W Amsterdam" in subject.

We are delighted to hold our book launch in conjunction with the opening of PLAYMOBIEL curated by Nathalie Faber/Cut-n-Paste, an exhibition of artists using mobile and wireless communication technology including Arno Coenen, Blast Theory, Gerald van der Kaap, Esther Polak and Scanner, opening at Arti et Amicitiae, Friday June 9, 6-8 pm; exhibit runs through July 8


Waag Society

Playmobiel (in Dutch only)

Arti et Amicitiae

Nijhof & Lee

The Design Institute gratefully acknowledges funding toward ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING from Target Corporation and the Consulate General of the Netherlands, New York.

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Architect Eyal Weizman has been selected as the winner of the 2006–07 James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City Competition for his proposal Destruction by Design: Military Strategy as Urban Planning. (Posted on Architect.com).

According to the Centre Canadien d'Architecture in Montreal, "Weizman’s project builds upon an impressive body of research and practice, which initially focused on the relationship between the theory and practice of warfare in the cities and settlement camps of Palestine, where the Israeli military has retooled itself to deal with guerrilla combat in dense urban situations. Based on extensive interviews with military commanders and strategists, as well as soldiers, guerrilla fighters, and civilians on both sides of this protracted conflict, Weizman's recent work analyzed the military's use of critical theory as an analogue to its use (and misuse) in architecture and urbanism."

Weizman is director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College (University of London). He is interviewed by Stephen Zacks in Else/Where:Mapping..

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Armed with a GPS tracking device and a grant from the UK Arts Council and British Antarctic Survey, artist Layla Curtis embarked on a bracing derive, or "Polar Wandering" of Antarctica between October and December last year. Artworks resulting from Layla's 27, 856 mile journey by foot, airplane and skidoo are on show May 9 - June 10 at London's Gimpel Fils gallery. http://www.polarwandering.co.uk/

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