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Week 5: Archives of Capitalism
- Day 1 [Tues Feb 15]:
Reading:
Cartography of Excess by B. Holmes (download .pdf)
Database Politics
http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=823&text=601#601
Bureau d'Etudes
http://utangente.free.fr/index2.html
Re-Code
http://re-code.com
Textz.com
http://textz.com/index.php3?simple_version=http://textz.gnutenberg.net
Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/
Software version of "Visitor's Profile" by Hans Haacke, (proposed 1969 for Guggenheim Museum)
A teletype terminal with a monitor was connected to a computer. The computer was programmed to cross-reference demographic information about the museum audience with their opinions on a variety of subjects.
- Day 2 [Thurs Feb 17]:
Present: Patrick Michael Kewley
Perspectives on the US Justice System
http://360degrees.org
79 Days by Trebor Scholz
http://79days.net
They Rule by Josh On / Future Farmers
http://theyrule.net
Bureau d' Etudes
http://bureaudetudes.free.fr/act.html (in French but with links to maps)
See references for a list of location-based storytelling archives, conferences, and more.
References/ Recommended Reading
/ Place-based Storytelling
34 North 118 West is an LA based project
http://34n118w.net/
34 North 118 West is a location-aware project which utilizes mobile technology and our custom software to deliver a unique media experience. Visitors to our site in downtown Los Angeles are met with everything necessary for the tour, including hardware and software.
34 North 118 West plays through a Tablet PC with Global Positioning System receiver and headphones. GPS tracks your location to determine how the story unfolds - in real time, in real space, as you traverse the sidewalks of Los Angeles.
[murmur]
http://murmurtoronto.ca/
[murmur] [shawn micallef, james roussel, gabe sawhney, 2003]
"[murmur] is an archival audio project that collects and curates stories set in specific toronto locations. at each of these locations, a [murmur] sign will mark the availability of a story with a telephone number and location code."
PDPal
http://www.pdpal.com/
PDPal is a mapping tool for recording personal experiences of public space. On this site you can create a map, for example of Times Square. The piece asks people what is happening, what has happened and what could happen.
StoryCorps
http://storycorps.net/
StoryCorps is a national project to instruct and inspire people to record each others' stories in sound.
Street Stories [Warren Sack, 2002]
http://www.columbia.edu/~ws2138/StreetStories/
Street Stories: Designing Networked, Narrative Places of Community
"traversing the geographical area of the map with the ipaq, one can listen to the audio stories associated with one's current position simply by running the application while one walks."
Interactive Portrait of the Liberties
http://www.mle.ie/~Evnisi/liberties/indexLib.html
The ”Interactive portrait of the Liberties” is an interactive digital narrative application that provides multimedia content to individuals and groups. This content is relevant to them at a particular point in time and space – it is context-aware.
Songlines Utrecht [marc tuters, karlis kalnins, 2004]
http://www.gpster.net/impakt/
"moving through the real space of utrecht reveals hidden messages and locative media: text, images, and sound specific to that point in space. users can also create annotations themselves; every point in space is a virtual canvas."
Memory Maps
http://www.localprojects.net/mmaps/mmaps.shtml
The Smithsonian FolkLife Festival gathers over 1 million visitors in two weeks on the National Mall by displaying exhaustive research of three specific locations’ cultures. As one of the 2001 cultural choices, New York City posed a special challenge-- the representation of a vibrant living culture where the mixing of many different cultures together into a small diverse city creates a larger cultural ecosystem. Reminiscent of a subway car wrapped in fluorescent construction mesh, Memory Maps was a system of enormous street maps of New York City which allowed visitors to share their stories of the city by anchoring memories to specific locations.
Urban Texting
http://www.akav.dk/blog/archives/000324.html
People in the city SMS 4-5 words that are than mapped onto a map of the city.
Songlines
http://www.impaktonline.nl/box/songlines/index.html
Songlines is an ongoing experiment in geo-annotation and collaberative cartography. Using handheld computers equipped with global positioning system (GPS) and wireless internet (GPRS), participants can explore the streets of Utrecht, simultaneously experiencing the real world and a world of virtual graffiti. Moving through the real space of Utrecht reveals hidden messages and locative media: text, images, and sound specific to that point in space.
Talking Street
http://www.talkingstreet.com/
Using something as easy as your own cell-phone, Talking Street offers a completely new way to explore a destination. Let a celebrity show you around, and listen to history come to life around you. On your schedule, at your own pace.
Urban Tapestries
http://www.proboscis.org.uk/urbantapestries/
Urban Tapestries is a Proboscis project exploring social and cultural uses of the convergence of place and mobile technologies through transdisciplinary research. To help us model emerging social and cultural behaviours we have built an experimental platform that allows people to author and access place-based content (text, audio and pictures). It is a framework for exploring and sharing experience and knowledge, for leaving and annotating ephemeral traces of peoples’ presence in the geography of the city.
Lower Manhattan Sign Project
http://repohistory.org/lower_manhattan_sign_project/index.php3
Repohistory's inaugural project was inspired by the celebration surrounding the quincentennial of Columbus' "discovery" of the Americas. While the country planned to commemorate a carefully selected history of Columbus' legacy, REPOhistory created a project that presented alternative views of history.
Twenty-Four Dollar Island
http://24dollarisland.net
The project allows community networks to create their own, topic-specific maps of Lower Manhattan. Information in corporate guide books or on city-run websites is often stale, linear and leaves out much of what is crucial to the history of the area. It aims to create free, complete, alternative, up-to-date and reliable material on the area, a platform at the which commuters, tourists and residents can exchange stories, and share their knowledge. Possible topics are also demonstrations, and strikes. Several hundred entries exist already. Until spring 2005 the piece will extend to include entries from cell phones, that are then mapped directly to the online map. Urban dwellers will also be able to call up stories at a location in town.
Place Matters
http://placematters.net/flash/home.htm
Place Matters seeks to promote and protect places that connect us with the past, sustain community life and make our surroundings distinctive.
MapHub
http://hactivist.com/maphub/overview.html
MapHub proposes to research the introduction of a geographic and historical data sharing application in an urban landscape. MapHub proposes to be a peoples. map . a map of an urban geography determined not by traditional methodology but instead by the members who participate and contribute everyday in the experience of urban life. MapHub proposes to be both a tool and a system that gives users pen and paper to record their unique and situated perspectives and then deliver that documentation to others.
Mr. Beller's Neighborhood
http://www.mrbellersneighborhood.com/
Since its founding in the Spring of 2000, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood has published nearly seven hundred pieces of writing on New York.
The site combines a magazine with a map. It uses the external, familiar landscape of New York City as a way of organizing the wildly internal, often unfamiliar emotional landscapes of the city dweller.
73 Urban Journeys
http://www.73urbanjourneys.com/
"73urbanjourneys.com is designed to explore, experience and capture textual, visual and sensual narratives of the mobile london urban experience."
Katumuisti [maari fabritius, 2000]
http://www.katumuisti.net/
Helsinki street memories for mobile phones
/ NETWORKS
jabberwocky [intel research berkeley, 2004]
http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/jabberwocky/
"jabberwocky is a freely available mobile phone application designed to promote urban community connections and a sense of familiarity, anxiety, and play in public urban places."
Mobile Snoop Service [anab jain, 2004]
http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/alumni/03-05/anab/yearone/snoop/snoop.html
"mobile snoop service allows you to snoop into fellow travelers mobile phones and read text messages, view images and listen to conversations while traveling."
Neighbornode
http://www.neighbornode.net/
Moport: mobile phone reporting [brooke singer, 2004]
http://www.moport.org/
"this site allows people to collectively report about important events in real-time using mobile phones (or digital cameras and computers)."
Wifi.bedouin [julian bleecker, 2003]
"wifi.bedouin is a wearable, mobile 802.11b node disconnected from the global internet. it facilitates the creation of a truly mobile web community."
http://www.techkwondo.com/projects/bedouin/
/ Conferences
Engaging the City
http://hciresearch.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/engaging_cities/
/ Essay
Clay Shirky. Situated Software. Clay Shirky's Writings on the Internet.
Available: URL http://www.shirky.com/writings/situated_software.html.
/ Other:
Digital Street Game (Intel Research)
http://www.asphalt-games.net/
Familiar Stranger (Intel Research)
http://berkeley.intel-research.net/paulos/research/familiarstranger/
Lower Manhattan Sign Project
http://repohistory.org/lower_manhattan_sign_project/index.php3
Repohistory's inaugural project was inspired by the celebration surrounding the quincentennial of Columbus' "discovery" of the Americas. While the country planned to commemorate a carefully selected history of Columbus' legacy, REPOhistory created a project that presented alternative views of history.
Aware
http://aware.uiah.fi/ian/index.php
Surface Patterns
http://www.centrifugalforces.co.uk/surfacepatterns/pages/editable/tours.html
Mudlarking
http://www.nestafuturelab.org/showcase/mudlarking/mudlarking.htm
REFRAMES Project
http://www.reframes.com/Projekte/english.htm
Drawing Mental Maps
http://realtime.waag.org/
Biomapping
http://www.biomapping.net/
Biomapping: Mapping the stressfactor in public space by Christian Nold. Bio Mapping is a research project which explores new ways that we as individuals can make use of the information we can gather about our own bodies. Instead of security technologies that are designed to control our behaviour, this project envisages new tools that allows people to selectively share and interpret their own bio data.
TeleTaxi
http://www.year01.com/teletaxi/
A Map Larger Than Its Territory
http://www.mapterritory.com/
Blood for Sale
http://www.iterature.com/bloodforsale/
Blogmapper
Map yopur blog and blog your map
http://www.blogmapper.com/
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