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Title Description - In 2001 Laurie Palmer sent out an open request for proposals to transform an unused patch of public land set aside by the city of Chicago in 1987 as a future park dedicated to Haitian-French trader Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable,…

Title Description - Documentation of three projects by the collaborative team of artists Stephan Micheel and H.S. Winkler: ice is removed from the South Pole, where the world's 24 time zones meet, and brought to Europe; a self-sustaining machine is…

Title Description - P.T.T.Red's early collaborative projects, including the gilding of a small section of a bridge in Berlin, and unrealized plans to do the same to New York's George Washington Bridge. 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org). Portfolio…

Title Description - Projects documented include "Twitter-Machine," in which a solar-powered robot broadcasting birdsongs is installed in New York, Berlin, the Canary Islands, and Videy, Iceland; a cancelled plan to demarcate the former boundary…

Title Description - An examination of the simultaneous growth and decay of downtown St. Louis. Two perspectives are investigated; first, the shape of the skyline as it expands over the decades and second, the mapping of the land, which indicates a…

When I was exploring Tower Grove Park in St. Louis on a beautiful fall day, I realized that the domination of the cars promotes increasingly fast pace lives, distracting us from the beauty that surrounds us. Catalog record.

Title Description - This book is an anthology of writings by artists and critics which meditate on the subject of desire. In the contemporary context, the editor argues, desire is caught up in the delimitation of public and private space. This…

Title Description - In this intriguing project, Nishio presents a series of abstracted figures and faces printed in shimmering bronze. On closer inspection, it becomes apparent that the images are constructed out of seating plans for stadiums and…

Physical Description - 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 17 cm. Catalog record.

Title Description - Over a period of twenty-eight minutes and thirty-eight seconds, the artists photographed pedestrians with a camera "adapted so that it had an open slot of one millimetre as its aperture. Behind this the film is run in a single…