the Central City

a type of research....

>this may be of interest
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>"The Central City".
>This can be seen online at
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>http://www.thecentralcity.co.uk
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>To help guide you through...........THE CENTRAL CITY.... (Version 2000)
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>The Central City area an interactive city experience. The juxtaposition of
>urban sounds and sights. Towers, maps, the sounds of the city, an audio
>visual city experience. Images from computer based drawings and sounds of
>London. Themes or motifs that occur within the context of this work
>include: Networks of information technology contrasted with organic
>networks and city networks as grids.
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>This is the work of Steve Tanza. Welcome to The Central City , an
>interactive art and text piece with embedded sounds, made for the
>internet. Please be patient and wait for files to download and enjoy your
>trip.
>There are now over 20 areas of the Central City , and each area has lots
>of things within each section so chances are you won't find everything.
>(IN TOTAL OVER 200 MOVIES some movies can only be found by clicking
>through areas) These areas are:- indus. universa. constructor. videotron.
>megalopotron. elevator. maputor. proser. city central . mondomix. textus.
>sounder. randomizer. cuboid . matrixity
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>In some ares city cells mutate and grow move around the screen and birth
>new spaces. The music SOUNDER features a streaming audio cd player which
>plays 30 mins of industrial ambient music, streaming into your home. A
>VIDEO AREA called videotron plays video artitextures built into a video
>wall. Motifs of urban design deconstructed and repeated in a grid. A
>series of videos shot in london and continually edited and reprocessed to
>form isolated fragments of our city experience. From the video
>"Artitextures".
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>Exhibition and awards AT...EMAF 1999, NET ART, Proarte 1998, Bima 1999,
>Macromedia Peoples Choice 1999, DTI Innovation award 1997, MTV web 1998.
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>Technical points. You will need shockwave for some areas and will not be
>able to listen to the music unless you get shockwave. You must have
>downloaded and installed the shockwave plug-in available from the
>macromedia website. This plug in goes in the plug - ins folder within
>netscape.
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>THE CENTRAL CITY.... by STANZA
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>Please visit the site, print the URL, write a review, tell your friends,
>bookmark us, and let us know what you think of the site. Make links to the
>site and if you are interested in the artworks get in touch........at
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>Stanza@xxxxxxxxxxx
>TEL 0171 737 1524
>Stanza
>92 Lilford Road.
>London. UK
>SE5 9HR.
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