‘Bio Mapping is a participatory methodology for people to talk about their immediate environment, locality and communal space. I’m trying to use 3D visualisation as a way of talking about the space. It’s not representational.’

UK teacher/activist/artist/modern busy person Christian Nold recently completed the San Francisco emotion map, a process which he has invented and tested already in Greenwich. If I understand the process, he basically blindfolds subjects and has them guided around different public spaces, all the while being hooked up to a lie-detector, tracking the subject’s response to urban stimuli.

He has predetermined categories, something like ‘good’ and ‘bad,’ that describe the body’s reaction to specific places. Then he creates a map of his subjects’ paths, with color coordinated labels based on their bodies’ reactions. Nold is supremely concerned with effects of globalization/development/urban anarchy and is actively creating new research in the fields of sensory politics and sensory pollution.

Mr. Nold stays incredibly busy with his various projects, and, good for us, he processes and shares information very reliably. Check below for links and click on the image above to see the flow chart he made to describe himself.

download the San Francisco data as KMZ / Softhook.com [all of his projects] / Nold on Flickr

In response to Damien Hirst’s new $99 million thing, artist Sarah Laura knocked off his diamond skull using 6,522 Swarovski crystals. And then put it outside his gallery in London, as if it were typical outside-of-gallery detritus. As much as I want to not care, I am imagining Hirst’s response. This is the same Hirst who sued a budget airline for knocking off his prescription dots. I can only speculate that he is probably perturbed at getting totally effin effed by an artist with only one name [hence, closer to God, Damien]. Link

[thanks Boing, Boing]

Gallery Nucleus has a large group show of really low price points opening tomorrow night.   I do not know anyone participating, but the concept seems intriguing because I can’t visualize how the pieces will work as a whole.  These mega-group shows have been the populist/popular art rage (see: I am 8-bit), but upon trying to go to Gallery 1988 on two separate occassions for shows like this, lines were around the block (the space is very small) and parking was scant at best.

I’ve never been to Gallery Nucleus, and I can’t make the reception.  If you check it out, let us know how it goes.

Just when we thought the Joint Custody Project had finally buried all of its drama, we had one last chance meeting between partners who had only corresponded through email, though it was roughly 2 months after the opening.

My rommate (Chris Cruse) was with me at Club 82, which our friend Preston promotes and which Chris used to provide visuals for. Anyway, at one point, we gliding gingerly through the crowd of surprisingly really good looking folks, where I see Chris’s JCP partner, Ryan Riss, standing right next to us.

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