PARIS - Times are
changing, for a long time, the discretion was required
for anybody who, in our countries, wanted to deal with
the subject of the Obscure
Cities.
But apparently, it is ancient time. More and more often,
this subject is discussed openly.
As example, the café littéraire "La
Maroquinerie" : They proposed us nothing less that a
journey in Urbicande!
The guide for this occasion was Alok
Nandi , webmaster of the Urbicande site. He commented
this place for us.
This constitute a great premiere: a journey in
group organized from Paris to Urbicande, it was a journey
open for everybody, no needed to be member of any kind of
obscure group.
How to go trough the passage? It is still not obvious,
Jean-Paul Firman explains us his technique:" We
put a big screen, we aimt on it a video-projector and we
flash the site. And we visit it , in company of its
author, commentaries done by himself. The pleasure of a
shared moment is the only reason of this unmoved journey."
This presentation is one of the events of the series
"Hyperécrivains?" that proposed to visit live,
literary sites made by authors dealing with problems of
creation for and on the net.
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The report of the
journey
This experimentation occurred Monday March 20 at 20:30
at 'La Maroquinerie' (23 rue Boyer, Paris). We asked
Jean-Paul Firman to talk us about it, here are his
explanations:
"Here are the latest news about the latest
passage (as I know) opened to the Cities.
My attempt to enter on my own by the high ways bypass
that propose this side of the web ran into dead-locks,
clamping, interruptions, of the interventions of a
leatory programs that increase the obscurity of the
visit. Visibly, the passage is easier for some (Peeters
& Schuiten,
for example.) than for others.
I contacted then Alok Nandi. Commonly, we decided to use
an other method, that was (as best as I know) the first
premiere of this kind: the passage of a group with a
portable.
Without any connection with the web, we linked the
portable of Alok Nandi to a video-projector and aims it
on one wall of 'La Maroquinerie' (other journeys to other
sites, during the passed year, showed us that a big
screen was rather a constrain, or at least an useless
complication. And with the direct link on the internet,
it run into dead-locks, clamping, interruptions, load
breaks & other interventions of the hazard law and
the hosting together).
The passage opened without difficulties neither
incidents. It allowed us to verify that 'La Maroquinerie'
was indeed a bridge to the Obscure Cities, and that for a
certain time, because some doors that opened us
corresponded to certain state of the site Urbicande that
are not in line anymore.
But the obscure temporality isn't exactly our, as we all
know, since in return it was possible to see certain
parts of the site that, in the state of project, are not
accessible to the non-initiate .
In a bit less that one hour, we could fly over the
obscure side, in a superficial way, that gave good
overview for who it was the first visit, and that allowed
to the familiars to evoke the future of the Cities, and
specifically the experimentation of Louvain-La-Neuve.
We came back more especially happy as we carefully marked
the place & the passage process, and that we won't
have any problem to try it again in the heart of the XXe
ward."
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