Monthly Archives: January 2009

Preparation for CR in SESC SJC

During the workshop days in SESC SJC participants showed a great interest in personal narrative while obtaining and creating material for impending CultureRobot installation. Appealing content was aggregated during the five days when they were making research based on presentation that displayed mapping process trough geographical mapping, mind mapping, time mapping and projects that map social, political and power relations.

Most prominent artistic working on the subject were presented, such as Josh On theyrule.net, Heath Bunting BorderXing , Warchalking project, Bureau d’Etudes and UniversitéTangente work, MapaEnquanto by Brazilian collective Descentro, i-SEE project by Institute of Applied Autonomy and An Atlas of Radical Cartography.

Participants created maps based on their own interests. An example is mapping the water and city relations. Urbanism, water flow, street flow, underground water reservoirs and approach to communal water, abandoned water towers, rivers and bridges were investigated. This part of workshop ended resulting in drown, video and photo documentation.


An interesting image was created by one of the workshop participants depictingthe way from her home to SESC workshop only by ussing colors and shapes.

Joined map was created by inserting each of the participant map into city map, where pins and threads were used to investigate participants movement within the city as well as relation of themselves trough this movement. Maps were than replicated in digital form using googlemaps technologies and collaborative map was created. Participants were also introduced to the GPS technology that was used to mark some of city points by its latitude and longitude.

CultureRobot at SESC in Sao Jose dos Campos

Participative installation CultureRobot created trough collaboration work by Ricardo Palmieri (BR) and Kruno Jošt (HR) will stage its second appearance at culture center SESC in Sao Jose dos Campos. SESC custos Juliano Bomeisel and Sergio Seabra invited CultureRobot to happen as a process of opening of this center in SJC.

SJC will be mapped with GPS systems during the workshops from 20th to 24th January ’09. Positions like clubs, social centers, gas stations, museums, factories and parking lots will be mapped and data from those places gathered. Participants will demonstrate personal narration about interdependencies between cultural and social conditions of urban territory they live in.