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Kate Armstrong’s PATH – a 12 volume bookwork with text generated by the physical movement of an anonymous individual living in the city of Montreal between 2005-2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\" The Goethe Satellite Vancouver<\/a><\/em> is part of a 2 year initiative of Germany’s Goethe-Institut to create a programming framework where artists and curators are asked to develop projects in Vancouver. With more permanent facilities in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, Kate Armstrong, an independent curator and artist, is currently a pivotal member of those working with the local branch of the Goethe.<\/p>\n

Armstrong is active in Vancouver\u2019s arts scene with numerous works relating to psychogeography and urban experience, and\u00a0 is also a co-founder of Revised Projects<\/em> \u2013 an independent, curatorial collection of projects which emphasizes participatory and interdisciplinary partnerships.\u00a0 Revised Projects<\/em> is managing the Goethe Satellite Vancouver <\/em>which has delivered five major projects over the course of 2011-2012 year, with partners including the Waldorf Hotel, Instant Coffee Collective, 221A Artist Run Centre and Fillip. More are to be announced.\u00a0 The overall imperative of these works is to develop stronger linkages between Vancouver, Germany and Asia through artistic development and exchange.<\/p>\n

In May, Armstrong released a 12-volume edition of her book called \u201cPath<\/em><\/a>\u201d which follows the life an anonymous individual living in Montreal between the years of 2005-2007.\u00a0 As it relates to public-private juxtapositions, this project tagged this anonymous individual with a textual passage every time they accessed the internet using public wi-fi.\u00a0 The outcome expands upon themes relating to the visual, personal and spatial patterns inherent in the lives of these fictional characters.\u00a0 As they navigate their way through the city, the reader gets a snapshot of the behaviours of the character, forming a map that reveals inherent ways of perceiving daily life in the city.<\/p>\n

Armstrong states: \u201cI\u2019m interested in the intersections between urban spaces and communication networks because networked culture changes how we experience city spaces and allows for us to chart our use of the city in new ways, which leads to new observations about our lives and patterns of living.\u201d\u00a0 Art, activity and urban space are intertwined in these projects, highlighting the interactivity and complexity of living in the urban-public realm which is what Armstrong hopes to emphasize.<\/p>\n

Psychogeography<\/a> is another important aspect of Armstrong\u2019s work, which focuses primarily on the concept of \u201calgorithmic psychogeography\u201d where, as Armstrong explains, it \u201crepresents a method of applying simple rule-based systems to the experience and endeavour of walking, so that a person is forced to get outside of regular patterns of life in a city.\u201d\u00a0 Some of this work was primarily developed during the early stages of mobile technology, such as texting, and used walking as a dynamic form of collecting information; with art and technology intersections in mind.<\/p>\n

Some other projects that Armstrong has created relating to psychogeography (see work by Spacing\u2019s own Shawn Micallef<\/a>) include PING<\/a> (2003) <\/em>which used mobile phone technology to guide participants through the city, enabling the text and the street to synthesize and affect each other in non-linear ways.\u00a0 Pattern Language<\/a>, <\/em>another project based in Vancouver, came out of a partnership with the Mobile Digital Commons Network and \u201cIls Sans Fils\u201d <\/em>out of Montreal utilizing a public wireless network as the medium of choice and enabling Armstrong to develop her work around the patterns of network usage that people follow.\u00a0 The results of this project lead to the most recent work on the \u201cPath\u201d <\/em>collection which has now been released in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Armstrong\u2019s work represents an interesting collection of how networks, paths, psychology and space affect the ways in which Vancouverites\u2014and all global citizens, for that matter\u2014interact with the external world as well as the less visible technological world.<\/p>\n

Armstrong has had a busy year with the Goethe<\/em>, organizing varied projects dealing with text, language and culture.\u00a0 Some key exhibitions in the Vancouver area are moving towards a video methodology including Electric Speed <\/em><\/a>which \u201cis the largest art-devoted urban screen in the country\u201d according to Armstrong. The fa\u00e7ade of the building becomes a projection space. This culminated in a publication of essays investigating issues around screens in urban space and what repercussions they have or opportunities they represent for culture.<\/p>\n

The Goethe Satellite<\/em> in Vancouver provides strong artistic connections for Vancouverites to the rich cultural and creative heritage of Germany, while encouraging new modes of discussion involving a diverse array of mediums.\u00a0 Artists such as Armstrong are working hard to bring relevant, intriguing and cutting-edge creative observations on urban life, modalities of space and the dynamics of changing cultures.<\/p>\n

Art is life, life is art, so check out the\u00a0Goethe Satellite in Vancouvere<\/a><\/em> and be enlightened.<\/p>\n

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The Goethe Satellite recently announced four new art projects for its 2012-2013 series; for more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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You can check out some of Armstrong\u2019s and the Goethe Satellite\u2019s current projects at the following links:<\/p>\n

Kate Armstrong: http:\/\/www.katearmstrong.com<\/a>|
\nKate on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/kate_armstrong<\/a>
\nRevised Projects: http:\/\/www.revisedprojects.com<\/a>
\nGoethe Satellite: http:\/\/\/www.goethe.de\/satellite<\/a>|
\nElectric Speed: http:\/\/electricspeed.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cameron Barker<\/strong> is passionate about cities, the environment and urban space. He graduated from Ryerson University in Urban and Regional Planning and has worked in municipal city planning and environmental planning including stints in Suriname, South America and Australia. He currently resides in Vancouver and assists the Vancouver Public Space Network and Sustainable Cities International in his free time.<\/em><\/p>\n

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