With only the second redesign in four years, the website of the CUE Institute gets a major overhaul of its structure: goodbye frames, welcome clarity.

The home of the Institute of Contemporary Urban Encounters, has just been fully redesigned. The entire site is now without frames, so the main sections can be linked or accessed directly by entering the appropriate URL, with the requested section typed after urbanfields.net slash, followed by the name of the section; like for example: urbanfields.net/sitemap or urbanfields.net/echoclub

The overall design remains pretty much the same, but the structure is now much more accessible.

The «About CUE» section has been completely redesigned, hopefully making its easier for visitors to get an idea of what CUE is about.

A few new or previously missing projects have been added, like loslogos.org (urbanfields.net/about/loslogos.html), the slides archive (urbanfields.net/about/slides.html), shows & exhibitions (urbanfields.net/about/exhibition.html) etc.

The «Showroom» section is new. It is what used to be the «Exhibition» and «City Dubs» sections. «City Dubs» (the movie and sound section) is now a sub-site to «Showroom».
«Showroom» is where submitted media and art works are placed that don't fit in the «fields» section; see for example «Int. / Ext. Hotel California» by Veronika Klancnik.
«Showroom» is also where we present our own short movies and slideshows.

Fieldreport, the CUE news and media site is now treated as what it always was: an external website, thus opening in a new window. Fieldreport can now be subscribed to using RSS (Real Simple Syndication, - news feeds for mobile devices or computers using RSS reader software such as NetNewsWire or Web-Browsers with RSS compatibility such as Firefox).

www.urbanfields.net

The beauty of artificial lighting: take a walk through your city at night or find out about it here.

«NIGHTWALKS» is a short film consisting of photos and movie sequences taken by Sarah Huber in Bern, Geneva, Locarno, Belgrade, London, Marseille and Tokyo. It is an impressive show of the beauty of shadows, cast by artificial lighting upon the cities structures at night.
Because of the vast amount of lamps, a city is never really dark. What we see of the city can become quite surreal at night; places look like paintings or images we seem to remember from movies, - especially if we leave the main streets behind and wander off into parks or residential areas.

The soundtrack to «Nightwalks» is made up of two tracks: The beautifully sombre Hip Hop instrumental «DJ Screams Medic Bonus» by the Shadow Huntaz (out on the Plug Research label) and the electronica track «Mes» by the wonderful Mexican artist Murcof (out on the Leaf label).

Sarah Huber (also known as Zera, born in 1972) lives in Switzerland and works at the CUE Institute amongst other things.
She is in charge of the fields-section on urbanfields.net. She has photographed a large number of cities displayed on urbanfields.net/fields.

Be warned, this movie is 161 Megabyte in size! You need a broadband Internet connection or a lot of patience. Mind you, it should be worth it.

www.urbanfields.net/showroom/dubs/nightwalks.html