Legible City
Description
Artist Statement
In The Legible City the visitor is able to ride a stationary bicycle through a simulated representation of a city that is constituted by computer-generated three-dimensional letters that form words and sentences along the sides of the streets. Using the ground plans of actual cities - Manhattan, Amsterdam and Karlsruhe - the existing architecture of these cities is completely replaced by textual formations written and compiled by Dirk Groeneveld. Travelling through these cities of words is consequently a journey of reading; choosing the path one takes is a choice of texts as well as their spontaneous juxtapositions and conjunctions of meaning.
Source of Artist Statement
In The Legible City the visitor is able to ride a stationary bicycle through a simulated representation of a city that is constituted by computer-generated three-dimensional letters that form words and sentences along the sides of the streets. Using the ground plans of actual cities - Manhattan, Amsterdam and Karlsruhe - the existing architecture of these cities is completely replaced by textual formations written and compiled by Dirk Groeneveld. Travelling through these cities of words is consequently a journey of reading; choosing the path one takes is a choice of texts as well as their spontaneous juxtapositions and conjunctions of meaning.
Source of Artist Statement
Creator
Shaw, Jeffrey
Groeneveld, Dirk
Date
1988-91
Contributor
May, Gideon [Software]
Schmitt, Lothar
Van Vark, Tat [Hardware]
Jungbauer, Charly [Hardware]
Nelissen, Huib [Hardware]
Rights
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Genre
Interactive video installation
Platform
Video installation
Citation
Shaw, Jeffrey and Groeneveld, Dirk, “Legible City,” ADELTA, accessed November 13, 2024, https://adelta.westernsydney.edu.au/items/show/194.