invisible cities

There are various ways to build maps of a city. Some use photography, some use data visualizations, some use a pencil and a piece of paper. Since I do live visuals, I decided to try to explore and map the city by mans of video. I took a videocamera and walked the streets, trying to record moments that later on can be placed on a map. The result is a collection of snippets that put together can build for example the life around central square or around the main station.
Some of the videos were used at the final performance that took place on August 28, 2010, in TABAČKA Kulturfabrik. The idea was to show the invisible rhythms of the city, the rhythms of panel houses and of cars passing by, of people strolling or of water dripping in the fountains, the rhythms that can visualize an EKG map of the city. Below there is link representing the performance “invisible cities” [since there was no recording from that moment, the video was later built from the collected material, using a similar timeplan and "scenario"]

locations mapped in video:
- tram stop at the main train Station [covered in advertising]
- Ťahanovce district [circled around in a trolleybus]
- Hlavná ulica [Košíce Korzo]
- the marketplace on Dominikánske Námestie [here is also located the oldest church in KE, from the 13th century]
- busy junction on Štefánikova street [on the same street there is abandoned a beautiful old swimming pool]

by Ana Filip