On cities, mapping, psychogeography and the experience of places.

Birmingham timelapse from 7inch cinema on Vimeo.

Amateur photographer Derek Fairbrother has assembled photographs taken from the same spot in Birmingham’s Chamberlain square between 1963 and 1986, and compiled them into this intriguing timelapse sequence. The timelapses are displayed in an exhibition called Birmingham Seen which opens at BM&AG this weekend; other sequences include the Post Office tower and the Rotunda.

URBAN EARTH is a project to (re)present our habitat by walking across some of Earth’s biggest urban areas.

Central to URBAN EARTH is (re)presenting cities to show what they are really like for the people who live there – a direct challenge to the media that distort the reality of the places in which most of us now live.

http://www.urbanearth.co.uk/london/

The Monument Project (Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice), a new digital video installation by Chris Meigh-Andrews commissioned by Julian Harrap Architects on behalf of the City of London Corporation opens on the 21th of March at the Nunnery gallery, Bow.

The installation, which produces a continuous stream of ambient responsive panoramic images from the top of the Monument in the City of London, 24 hours a day, 7 days per week for 3 years, can be accessed at http://www.themonumentview.net/

The launch event will take place at The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ, from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM, Friday, March 20^th, 2009.