Default Alpha: Mapping the Emergence of Synthetic Culture in New Towns
18 x 12 cm
Edition size: 300
2024
€25
Default Alpha: Mapping the Emergence of Synthetic Culture in New Towns by Jesse Siegel is a literary bridge between two supposed cultural non-places. Cancun, Mexico, a popular tourism resort created as a planned New Town by the Mexican government to increase foreign tourism and Almere, a planned city created by the Dutch government to ease the housing concerns in Amsterdam. Both cities were only founded in the 1970s and in two vastly different countries. The book is a personal journey tracing the unlikely commonalities between both places.
With an introduction by Remco Torenbosch. Design by Studio Budino.
Distribution in the United States by blackpuffin.
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Default Alpha was made possible with the support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
