I found the article "A Brief History of Wayfinding", to be very informative as well as interesting being that many people often overlook the process which allows them to understand where they are and be able to move from one destination to another and back again.Many people are so busy being distracted with their daily routines that they do not realize they are constantly on the move. After working on the psychogeographic drifting project I felt that this article was a great follow-up to that assignment. In fact when the article started to discuss how honey-bees and ants use Geocentric and egocentric navigation to find their way back to their nest I could visually see parts of many of the videos in our class where myself as well as my classmates took moving video of the ground they had walked by on Easton Ave. Overall I found this article to be highly relevant to drifting assignment and a great follow up.
The second article "Signal to Noise", was about the anti-music artist of the Fluxus movement, John Cage. John Cage is known for his groundbreaking work within the sound world. Perhaps his most famous piece, "4'33'' is a piece composed of four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence. In all honesty, not the most exciting art you will ever see or hear, but the theory behind it is what makes his work revolutionary. The whole concept behind Cage's work is the idea that things can be made by chance. Whether it be cutting up many clips and throwing them all back together randomly or composing a piece made entirely of silence Cage's work expressed the idea of making art through chance. In theory, by making everything by chance, the experience is different every time.
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