Core Studio II
Critic: Yolanda Daniels
Columbia University, 2007
Security networks have become increasingly complicated in the past ten years: complicated to navigate, complicated to successfully pass through, and complicated for an architect to draw.
With the increasing presence of "big brother", the project redefines a security checkpoint as any time a person gives information about themselves to another person: ticketing, identification checkpoints, credit card transactions, metrocard swipes, or any other time an exchange of personal information between two people occurs. The drawing maps the two simultaneous impossible journeys to record: airport security and prison security, from the time the passenger boards public transport until they reach the gate. Much of the same equipment is shared between the two programs.
The recording device is a tape recorder. The diagram maps the qualities of the sound along the journey: frequency, amplitude, and program according to their distance from the checkpoint. Distance is measured in time.
Emily Thompson describes a soundscape in The Soundscape of Modernity as "simultaneously a physical environment and a way of perceiving that environment. It is both a world and a culture constructed to make sense of that world."
LEGEND
Critic: Yolanda Daniels
Columbia University, 2007
Security networks have become increasingly complicated in the past ten years: complicated to navigate, complicated to successfully pass through, and complicated for an architect to draw.
With the increasing presence of "big brother", the project redefines a security checkpoint as any time a person gives information about themselves to another person: ticketing, identification checkpoints, credit card transactions, metrocard swipes, or any other time an exchange of personal information between two people occurs. The drawing maps the two simultaneous impossible journeys to record: airport security and prison security, from the time the passenger boards public transport until they reach the gate. Much of the same equipment is shared between the two programs.
The recording device is a tape recorder. The diagram maps the qualities of the sound along the journey: frequency, amplitude, and program according to their distance from the checkpoint. Distance is measured in time.
Emily Thompson describes a soundscape in The Soundscape of Modernity as "simultaneously a physical environment and a way of perceiving that environment. It is both a world and a culture constructed to make sense of that world."
LEGEND