As of November 7, 2008, art has transformed Metrotech in a way that coincides with its history. The theme of "Trapdoor" is to provide Metrotech, an area that has pronounced much growth and transformation within the last decade, with art. "By using or making reference to recognizable objects whose properties are exaggerated or altered in one way or ( Read more... )

New Urbanism/Smart Growth seems to be enticing to the citizens who live in these areas. Smart growth has transformed large acre commercial real estate that housed a major convenient store, a bank, and a restaurant (not very efficient) Into areas with tree lined streets, several department stores, parks, and even homes. The designers have started to ( Read more... )

This essay, written by Robert A.Caro describes the formation and creation of both the Northern Sate Parkway as well as the Cross Bronx Expressway. Caro goes into detail about the process, who had power during this time, and also mentions the affects it had on those who lived and studied these two projects.

Moses is a Baron who wants to lay out the  ( Read more... )

Walking in MetroTech can be like walking back in time while enjoying a  modern atmosphere if one has the imagination to do it. And, of course, if one knows a breif history of the area. Being a student at NYU-POLY means that you are a part of history that started one-hundered and fifty years ago. All you had to do was read the banner that hung over ( Read more... )

MetroTech was formed in 1992 and is a pedestrian only area. It provides a beautiful common in the middle which creates a peaceful place to relax during the summer months. Its design is rectangle bounded formed by Jay street, Johnson Street, Flatbush Avenue, and Myrtle Avenue. Due to this the north ends of Lawrence and Duffield were also freed from ( Read more... )

Stanley Milgram has a much more pessimistic point of view toward living in New York City, than does E.B. White. The introduciton of Stanley Milgram's essay gives the reader a frightened feeling about city life. He says, "...New York seemed like a nightmare. As soon as I got off the train at Grand Central I was caught up in pushing, shoving crowds ( Read more... )

I just want to state the difficulty of finding digital art information in the eighties. It took intense research to find something that didn't have to do with classical artists movements of the late twentieth century ( Read more... )

The article we read "Hamlet on the Holodeck" was very cool, and it brouht me back to my childhood when I used to play a game mentioned by the author: Myst.

Myst was all about agency. Feeling a sense of acheivement through tangible results. In Myst you were a man who roamed around four very isolated and imaginitve worlds. You had two brotheres who ( Read more... )

The purpose of art in the digital age has become very popular and becoming very understood. In Cazden's response I asked if categorizing images on the computer is considered art or are people getting credited as good artists for structuring and categorizing images on an electronic canvas ( Read more... )

I am curious to know anyones input on this topic. It is rather controversial, but being that poly is so diverse I am sure there is a lot of people who are for and against this issue ( Read more... )