Introduction
Visitors ride a stationary bicycle through a city built from three-dimensional text, recombining narratives through their chosen routes. The work connects computational space, bodily action and reading as interactive-art context rather than machine-learning image synthesis.
RESEARCH ACCOUNT
The Legible City: work and context
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-02
Work, material and process
The artist archive describes handlebars and pedals controlling direction and speed, a projected city and a separate map display. The 1989 Manhattan version differs in textual organisation from the Amsterdam and Karlsruhe versions of 1990 and 1991; they should not all be described as identical.
Section sources: The Legible City
Historical significance and questions
Editorial interpretation: meaning partly emerges through audience action, within a designed map and textual system. Participation offers choices without transferring control over every possibility. That distinction remains useful when studying interactive generation.
Section sources: The Legible City
Sources for this account
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Continue with a comparative question
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Man-Computer Symbiosis.
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Interactive Plant Growing.
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 1989 · Historical date recorded for the source: 1989
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Original sources & further reading
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The Legible City
https://www.jeffreyshawcompendium.com/portfolio/legible-city/
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Provenance, translation & verification
Archive node #238 · Work and artistic practice
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Date as recorded: 1989
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The Legible City
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ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. The Legible City. Art-history node #238. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/art-history/238
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