Artists Christina Ray and Dave Mandl – known as Glowlab – offered a walking tour and presentation of the Lower East Side block within which the new New Museum was to be built, based on their four-month study researching the area using a variety of tools and media such as blogs, video documentation, field recordings, and interviews.

“One Block Radius, which continued through May 2004, provided an in-depth focus on this specific microcosm of New York City. This feature-rich urban record included personal perspectives from diverse sources such as city workers, children, street performers, and architectural historians. Engaging a variety of tools and media such as blogs, video documentation, field recordings, and interviews, Glowlab created a multi-layered portrait of the block as it had never been seen before. Ongoing documentation of the project was accessible on www.oneblockradius.org, which included audio and video clips, clickable maps, and blogs by artists and audiences invited to contribute to the project.”

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Details taken from the New Museum website.