Celine Condorelli
Taxi_onomy
London

Beatrice Gibson
Taxi_onomy
London

Taxi_onomy is a live art project and mobile cartographic endeavor by architect Celine Condorelli and artist Beatrice Gibson. It re-appropriates the taxicab as the ultimate vehicle for psycho-geography, based on its capacity for metro processing and spatial understanding. Taxi_onomy is inherently concerned with facilitating spatial authorship.

It functions as a live cumulative archiving device that enables the public to log, classify and order their environment, creating networked cognitive maps while overlaying them onto physical space. Part locative dictionary, part annotation tool, Taxi_onomy offers a radical and high-quality art tool for the general public to both engage and create with. Devised as a socially interventive navigation device for a networked society, the project generates a reconsideration of existing use, appropriation and relationship to place.

Celine Condorelli is an architect based in London. She is Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University and previously at the University of East London and works within art and architecture collaborations. Recent works include developing ‘Support Structure’, an RSA Art for Architecture and Arts Council England project with Artist-Curator Gavin Wade, through several exhibitions including at the Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2003, and The Economist, London, 2004, as well as taxi_onomy with artist Beatrice Gibson, supported by Arts Council England, the British Council and V2 Rotterdam.

http://www.supportstructure.org
http://www.taxionomy.net

Beatrice Gibson is an artist based in London. She has implemented numerous new media projects that utilise digital technologies as a medium for the reappropriation of the city, constructing both online interfaces and tool-based systems. Examples include Telematic Surveillance, 2002, Commissioned by http://www.rhizome.org Human Capital Software Solutions, produced in 2003, commissioned by the Daniel Langlois foundation, and most recently taxi_onomy with artist Celine Condorelli, supported by Arts Council England, the British Council and V2 Rotterdam.

http://www.nungu.com
http://www.taxionomy.net