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Dear all,

After a long, long… well, a very long break, we are back with more delight!

The issue #20 is all about the magic of urban space. We are very happy to feature three pieces from the InnerCity project by Noelia Santos, plus a selection of sound works by Raqs Media Collective, Daijuin Yao/Beijin Sound Unit, and ru*mor* (Rui Viana Pereira) created exclusively for the 2002 Invisible Cities sound installation project . Please read below for more information about the works and their creators.

We ask that you stay tuned, as NoCommercialValue will be getting a new look (hello, Web 2.0!) plus a series of shows to celebrate our FIRST ANNIVERSARY (yes – we’ve been around for a full year now, folks!). As always, your comments and suggestions are more than welcome. If you have an idea or a piece of work that you would like to exhibit at NCV, please write to us. And now, let’s look what we have for you today:

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InnerCity by Noelia Santos

InnerCity is an attempt to portray our visceral experience of the city in virtual form. The site is composed of photography, prose-poetry and moving images portraying urban spaces which contain, frame, enclose and disclose our lives. A work-in-progress, InnerCity will grow over the next few months with fresh content, including a series of short films that together form an overarching narrative about the city as a body of interconnected pathways, stories and memories.

Biography

Noelia Santos is a freelance writer, editor and videographer based in New York. Her work has appeared in MovieMaker Magazine, mySA.com, the Independent Film & Video Monthly, Citysearch.com and Seattle Weekly. She is a graduate student in film at The New School.

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Selected works from Invisible Cities

Curated by Fällt designers Fehler, ‘Invisible Cities’ offers the opportunity to experience an intimate series of portraits of the world’s cities painted with sound. Through the interface of a gallery wall, each city, represented by an audio work of five minutes duration, is accessible through headphones. Participants in the gallery can transcend distance – moving from Moscow to Montreal, from Berlin to Beijing – in the time it takes to plug a pair of headphones into an alternative location.

A series of artists were invited to contribute a five minute audio work inspired by and utilising the sounds of the cities they cherish. Their contributions range from quiet and contemplative to noisy and frenetic with styles ranging from the pristine digital crackles of Baltimore based artist Richard Chartier (Whitney Biennial, 12k, LINE) to the near-silence of Tokyo based ultra-minimalist *0 (Nosei Sakata).

Invisible Cities was commissioned by Queen’s University, Belfast for Belfast Festival at Queen’s 2002 and is supported in its touring format by the British Council. To date it has exhibited in: Lisbon, Portugal; Naples, Italy; Brussels, Belgium; and Valetta, Malta.

- text from http://www.fallt.com/invisiblecities

Enjoy!

Amir Husak

Prem Sooriyakumar

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