RE: Room Change for Raqs' Lecture on 2/3

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From: Diane Anderson <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:11:32 -0600
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Room Change for Raqs' Lecture on 2/3

This lecture on Monday, 2/3, will now be held in Room 43 in the basement of
the Rapson Building at the U of MN. Please make a note of this change.

>> Raqs Media Collective Lecture
>>
>> FREE
>>
>> Monday, February 3, 12:15 PM
>>
>> University of Minnesota College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture,
>> ROOM 43, 89 Church St. SE, Minneapolis (also known as Rapson Hall). Room 43
>> is in the basement of the building.
>>
>> Parking available across the street from Rapson Hall in the Church Street
>> Parking garage. http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/ChurchGar/
>>
>>
>>
>> For the Walker Art Center exhibition How Latitudes Become Forms, a unique new
>> media/visual arts collaboration between the New Delhi-based Raqs Media
>> Collective and Atelier Bow-Wow, a Tokyo-based architectural practice, blends
>> an ancient form of cultural interchange, contemporary urban architecture, and
>> the very latest technology. Inspired by the concept of the caravansarai,
>> spontaneous communities of travelers and traders of Mughal, India, the team
>> created Temporary Autonomous Sarai, a meeting space that provides
>> opportunities for physical and virtual dialogue across cultures and
>> geographic borders. Borrowing from Hakim Bey's notion of a "temporary
>> Autonomous zone," the project combines Raqs' conception of a digital sarai
>> with Atelier Bow-Wow's notion of da-me or "no-good architecture"–multi-use
>> structures (an underpass that doubles as a cinema or barbershop, for example)
>> that epitomize the creative, adaptive aesthetic of Tokyo.


>> For this lecture, members of Raqs Media Collective discuss public spaces in
>> hybrid urban and cyber environments, including their collaborative project
>> Temporary Autonomous Sarai, commissioned by the Walker Art Center for the
>> exhibition How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age.
>>
>> This discussion is sponsored by the University of MN College of Architecture
>> and Landscape Architecture (CALA).
>>
>> Related links: http://www.sarai.net <http://www.sarai.net/> http://
>> <http://latitudes.walkerart.org/> latitudes.walkerart.org
>> <http://latitudes.walkerart.org/>


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