Legible City

Jeffrey Shaw

Legible City , –
Co-workers & Funding
with Dirk Groeneveld
Software: Gideon May and Lothar Schmitt
Hardware: Tat Van Vark, Charly Jungbauer and Huib Nelissen
In cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of the Netherlands

Jeffrey Shaw
Mnemosyne
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Documents
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Description
The Legible City was first presented in 1988 as wire-frame graphics that were interactively operated by a joystick. This constituted a prototype for later implementations of this work using a bicycle as the viewer interface and more advanced computer visualisation methods.
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • narrative
    • processual
  • genres
    • digital graphics
    • installations
      • interactive installations
      • mixed reality
      • virtual reality (VR)
  • subjects
    • Art and Science
      • space
    • Arts and Visual Culture
      • perspective
    • Body and Psychology
      • bodies (animal components)
      • movement
    • Nature and Environment
      • landscapes (environments)
  • technology
    • displays
      • electronic displays
        • projection screens
        • projectors
    • interfaces
      • non-electronic interfaces
        • bicycles
Technology & Material
Display
Varaiable: Computer Monitor, Projection
Interface
Bicycle (Version 1989), Joystick (Version 1988)
Software
wire-frame graphics
Exhibitions & Events
Algorithmic Revolution. On the History of Interactive Art
PERSPECTIVE International Media Art and Media History Exhibition
Virtual World Voyaging
Moving Image - Electronic Art
MultiMediale 2
Muu Media Festival 91
Stanford Conference on Design
Imago
Ars Electronica 1990: Digital dreams - Virtual Worlds
Time Space Light
Interface I
The Artists and the Light
Artifices 1
Electronic Imagination
Disappearence of the distance
Cebit '90
Het Postmoderne aan kinderen verklaard
Ars Electronica 1989: In the Network of Systems
ARTEC 89
Siggraph 1989
Het Postmoderne aan kinderen verklaard
Bibliography
3 publications