Vancouver Matters: The UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture has a call for submissions for a series of publications about Vancouver.
"The proposed investigations seek to engage Vancouver as a material condition – to explore what the city is made of, the codes that have constructed it, and the manifestations produced as a result. Work will be presented in three volumes: a resource dictionary, a code handbook, and an architecture guidebook. Contributors are asked to align the concepts of material, code, and their constructed products with any number of meanings and experiences, and to speculate upon their consequences using a variety of mediums." Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]