Our collection of images from 1996-present are available on Flickr:
Slides shows of Public Phenomena:
Block
Club Signs and Ghost Buildings
Basket
Ball Hoops, Parking Place Savers and Piles of Bikes
Cropped
Trees and Homemade Barriers
Roadside
Memorials, Antennas & Satellite Dishes and Personal Piles
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Public Phenomena spread for the Paris magazine Multitudes |
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Public
Phenomena: Informal Modifications of Shared Spaces is
a booklet we made documenting some of the public phenomena we
have gathered over the years like the material below. |
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Ancient
Order Fliers:
These photocopied flyers were found over the course of a year
in downtown Chicago. The main purpose of each flyer is to bring
to light the mysterious workings of a group called "The
Ancient Order" - who this group is, when they will strike
in the future, what they were responsible for in the past, and
how they have left their mark throughout history. |
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Marc Fischer talking about Public Phenomena and more on the radio |
By Alexis Petroff
By Alexis Petroff
By Alexis Petroff
EndCommercial: Reading the City
By Florian Bohm, Luca Pizzaroni, Wolfgang Scheppe
Very thorough and beautiful book about informal uses of urban, public space.
By Gruppo A12
A
thesaraus of modern concepts in urban development.
These plaques have appeared in cities all over the country and remain a mystery. They appear to be made of plastic that has been baked onto asphalt.
Documentation of signs from Gyros restaurants all over Chicago
Muffler Men
www.tchj.com/mufflermen.html
www.roadsideamerica.com
www.folkartnet.com/mufflermen.html
