DEVENIR NOMADA

Our team became immediately entangled in Arthur Erikson's courthouse building for three generations of the algorithm (2nd left, 1st right, 2nd left), which gave us elevated gardeny views of downtown corridors. The street below was lined with small elevated rooms which had been temporarily rented for the use of television actors. When we crossed over to a traffic throughway in front of the Hotel Vancouver we had to decide whether the door leading into the hotel was our next turn. We briefly discussed the Saint Lazare train station dérive and other historical precedents for taking a dérive inside but decided against entering the hotel because we felt that we would like to understand the workings of the algorithm in an urban context rather than in a velvety corridor and heated buffet plate context. Later, when speaking to another group, we found that they had taken their dérive into an indoor parking structure and had gone up several levels on a ramp. This excited our imaginations and we wondered if we had made the correct decision. Because part of the concept for this dérive involved the release of a paper airplane if we were to be faced with the ocean as a dead end, we began to feel oddly pleased when our algorithm appeared to be taking us in the direction of the waterfront. We cut through a bank of glassy highrises noticing that traffic had disappeared and that we were surrounded by deep parkades, long onramps, security guards, and small, weirdly meaningless pedestrian plazas. As we walked we struggled to determine the nature of this unsettling place. 1 2 3