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Hauptman, reading response.

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According to Bugeja and Dimitrova, “It would take five years for half of the online citations in journals to decay.”  Prior to reading these articles I was unaware of this, and some other useful tips that the authors shared.  What I also thought was interesting was the article saying, “Different online domains may be more stable than others.” So depending on whether a website ends in .org, .net, .edu, or .gov, the authors say some were more stable for online citations than others were.  I thought that this would be useful to know, especially since there are papers that require this and the semester is coming to a close.

BRIC

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I really enjoyed our little trip lately. In the first place I was familiar with BRIC before, because they stay behind organization of free music events during summer in Prospect park . The art space by it self are cozy and nice, the idea of exhibition clear and understandable(which is extremely rare for contemporary art). Different authors present almost all types of information as maps, which on my opinion, return us back to the map concept by itself. Originally maps use to present personal information about author experience in order to make it usable for others, and that’s what all artists illustrate beautifully.

I personally find all works very interesting, no matter if they shows some political information about the US bombing, or social data about gentrification, demographic change of population, winning lottery statistic or just ‘drowning of imaginary places’ as Patricia Smith describe her paintings.

 

Mapping Brooklyn

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“As an artifact, land-and the structures we build upon it-carries our experiences, memories, and voices.” I appreciated this quote by Jennifer Maravillas. 71 square miles from 2012-2015 it took her to walk and collect a piece of litter paper to create the 10 x 10 map. For someone to take that much time and effort to create and share this map with us, that interested me. I don’t believe my perspective changed on maps, but it did remind me how small we are in this vast universe. If I could visualize my daily life on a map, I would probably want to capture those unforgettable moments I’ve had in my life, in the different locations they took place on a map. It would be interesting because I can look back at my life when I get older (younger), and possibly share it with my family in the future.

BRIC in BK.

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Many maps at BRIC stood out to me like the Foursquare log in/check in map but  the work that left an impression on me was the Joyce Kozloff piece called ‘Targets’.  It was this sphere like structure that you were able to enter and once inside you were able to see all of the countries that the U.S has bombed from 1945 to 2000. Another nice feature was the acoustics of the structure, because any time you said something it was echoed back at you.  I wouldn’t say this piece changed my perspective on maps but it did make me realize that almost all data can be put into map form, the data in ‘Targets’ just illustrated the fact that the U.S has an itchy trigger finger.  One data in my daily life that I would like to visualize on a map would be all of the places in NY that I have been to so far.