This project is a sort of virtual guide to the most interesting parts of New York City (at least from my point of view). But it isn't a guide in the usual sense. While "walking" through these Web pages you can, as you choose, find yourself "standing" on a particular street, you can walk or go by subway direction you want, you can meet people and even "talk to them". In contrast to traditional maps, the aim of NYCMap is not to document the layout of the city or point out its most famous tourist attractions. With the NYCMap I've tried to capture the atmosphere, the energy, or that Something which I think makes New York City so curiously different from other cities with skyscrapers. At the same time, this project is my personal diary, a document of time I spent there since 1999.
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    I wish you a save trip!

    Marketa Bankova

    Thanks for support to:
    International Studio program, New York
    Foundation for Contemporary Art, Prague
    Milan Votava, Mageo
    Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York


    This site chosen by Project Cool as Sighting of the day March 5, 2000
    March 14, 2000 - this project introduced on DR Online
    March 16th 2000 - project chosen as Webbtip des tages by German NBC GIGA (in English)
    March 17, 2000 - and this?, I donīt understand a single word... :-)
    April 11, 2000 - Briefme.com.
    April 8 - 16, 2000 - Tech Extras of Newsday.com
    an article in Czech Pauza
    June 2000 - nominated for \\international media\art award by Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

    video in German TV
    July 6, 2000 - review in "arts@large" column of New York Times
    10.7.2000 - Ooit zal ik je echt ontmoeten
    July 24, 2000 - Realworldcities.com
    September 9, 2000 - an article in Bewegungsmelder Magazine and reactions
    September 23, 2000 - Cool Site of the Day of Webshots.com
    WEB - review/interview (in Czech)
    February 2001 - letīs play a Nycmap game! (?)
    October 10, 2001 - The Prague Post
    October 2001 - New York City Map chosen to appear in Net Art Idea Line of Whitney Museum of American Art
    more about the Whitney from jonno.com
    November 2001 - Study of the Use of Sound in the project NYCmap by students of Fine Arts Cultural Studies, California
    November 2001 - Ciberpaís, 1, 2, (in Spanish)
    March 2002 - NYC Map exhibited in FotoFest

        a Web-based installation Re-media organized by Christiane Paul, curator for New Media at the Whitney Museum in New York
        on this occasion, a new part of NYC Map, Trip to Brooklyn, added
    Nycmap in Rhizome ArtBase, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
    2003 - Critique of Marketa Bankova's 'New York City Map',  University of Washington
    November 2003 - NYC Map involved in Platform for Art Online of London Underground
    2004 - discussion in College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida
        more BBC
        Financial Times review
    April 2006 - Transposing geographies, curated by Christina Battle & Sara MacLean, Images festival, Toronto
    March 2010 - I have added a Google Maps with Street View. It is great to see how the city have changed in the past ten years.