Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Psychogeography

The Situationist International and Guy Debord experimented in the 1950s by wandering around urban cities, recording the emotional pulse emitting from the metropolis. Known as drifting, these artists would chart human experience to a geographic map to create psychogeography.

Networked Performance on the Turbulence web site displays different projects that operate in the realm of psychogeography:

http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/tags/pyschogeography/

and from Wikipedia, a definition of Psychogeography