Showing posts with label psychogeography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychogeography. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

John Curall-Algorithmic Psychogeography

I found the reading on algorithmic pyschogeography quite interesting. I am big fan of exploring and wandering through cities by car and on foot. You can learn so much about a city and discover some thing you might not of found otherwise. I also have a bit of a wandering spirit in me. I have travelled around the country quite a bit through the jobs that I have had. I always found the concept of "wandering the earth" an interesting one. Although I think I would rather do it with money then the backpacking drifter sleeping on the street or wherever route. I'm not sure how I feel about the applying of weird rules and mathematic patterns thing. I am not interested in what weird patterns would be created. I would be more interested in the random things I could discover in the city, so I would be more in favor of the random wandering. However, if you feel like you already know a city pretty well and even the random stuff seems not to be generating anything new or unpredictable, then it might be interesting to see what these other methods would produce.