Minneapolis and Saint Paul are East African cities.

Funded by the Walker Art Center, the prestigious cultural center of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul are East African cities is a work of Julie Mehretu web, artist in residence of the same institution. The artist, a native Ethiopian, wanted to give a voice to the minority of the East African metropolis by the superimposition of his maps that redraw these places as urban cities in the Horn of Africa, events, short personal and the other inhabitants of the American capital, from ethnographic indentiche conditions. Aided by entropy8zuper! for the design of on-screen information, the artist has created a split in one of the many ethnic opulent cities in the U.S., able to tell through an interface that allows you to drag and drop photos, getting directions on subjects and diversification del'audio transmitted simultaneously. The representation of the web, used as a tool for mapping an alternative to the official, reveals all its potential political self-consciousness narrative and real-time community and conflict.