I love this:
It’s a work by Abigail Reynolds called Mount Fear. The model landscape is generated from East London crime statistics. She describes it better:
The terrain of Mount Fear is generated by data sets relating to the frequency and position of urban crimes. Precise statistics are provided by the police. Each individual incident adds to the height of the model, forming a mountainous terrain.
The imaginative fantasy space seemingly proposed by the scupture is subverted by the hard facts and logic of the criteria that shape it. The object does not describe an ideal other-worldly space separated from lived reality, but conversely describes in relentless detail the actuality of life on the city streets.
Thanks to BlueJack for the link! In other news, I find it a bit worrying that Facebook shut down the 3000-strong Boris Watch group last week, claiming it violated their Terms and Conditions because: “Among other things, Pages that are hateful, threatening, or obscene are not allowed. We also take down Pages that attack an individual or group, or that are set up by an unauthorized individual.” More here.
Has anyone from Facebook has actually *been* on Facebook recently? There are thousands of pages like this, often featuring some pretty nasty misogynist and racist abuse, and yet Boris Watch is the one that gets censored? I wonder if it was just because it was a large group. Or more likely because enough Boris supporters complained about it, which bolsters my view that if the liberal left could get organised for once we’d be unstoppable.
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August 11, 2008 at 9:03 pm
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