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The City System
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13 June 2016
By Lee Walton
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THE CITY SYSTEM is a game-based tool for meandering aimlessly around a city. Each journey is unique to the user and determined by occurrences, observations, chance, pattern and rule.

 

You can download the CITY SYSTEM here.

 

THE CITY SYSTEM has been created specifically for:

 

  • Fontenay-Aux-Roses (Paris, FR)
  • PSY-GEO-CONFLUX (NY)
  • Glowlab (NY)
  • Brooklyn Psychogeographical Association. (NY)
  • San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets (SF)
  • SPUR: San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research (SF)
  • Portland State University (Harrell Fletcher's program, Art and Social Practice)
  • Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (IN)

 

In 2022, The City System was featured in a book called The Land Under My Feet by La Liminal published by the Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana.

 

CHAPTER 3: FICHAS DE PROYECTOS ARTÍSTICOS

Chico Trópico - Pueblo interior

Francis Alÿs - The green line

Guy Debord - The naked city

Hamish Fulton - Cho oyu, Tibet, 2000

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller - Alter Bahnhof Videowalk

Jenny Odell - Travel by approximation: A virtual road trip

Jeremy Wood - My ghost

Lee Walton - City System

Marco Ranieri - Herbario urbanoMelanie Manchot - Walk (Square)

Juan Carlos Ibáñez Angulo y Carlos Contreras Elvi-ra - Ocupación poética

Rachael Clewlow - 133.52 Miles Walked, Map (Explo-rer 306/OL26)

Richard Long - A sixty minute circle walk on Dartmoor

Rogelio López Cuenca y Elo Vega - Efigies y fantas-mas. Guía Monumental de Huelva

Simon Pope - The memorial Walks

Tim Knowles - Windwalks

 

City System NY part One

A video documenting the observations, wanderings, and performance actions of the City System. This was a special system that involved some interaction with space via somersaults, climbing things and more.

The City Sytem: NY part two

A video documenting the observations, wanderings, and performance actions of the City System. This was a special system that involved some interaction with space via somersaults, climbing things and more.

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