Art. Music. Ideas 11-14th May, Manchester UK. With an Art exhibition featuring Bestario see here http://vism.ag/55, the well known Nicholas Feltron see here http://vism.ag/3e, Mit project called Borderline, BBC Data Art project, Wilderness Downtown by Chris Milk & Aaron Koblin and what intirgues me and is a must to see is A Duet of Blizzards and Hurricanes Noel II by Nathalie Miebach.
Not only is there the art on show of data and mapping, you have the conference. Some intriguuing talks with Linked Data / LInked Stories sounding good as they look at data becoming more accessible everyday. Icononomical Data and Infographics looks good from icononomical founders. The internet of things that no longer exists, looking at the 24/7 of devices continuously connected to the internet in some way. Emotional Computing, Hacking Culture Urban Friction - Interfacing with the city. On the 14th May Saturday a free confrence with open data hack and the manchester creative co-op.
My budget couldnt stretch to all these but they certainly intrigue me. A zine exhibition to see and then the music. I'll be attending.
Published on 2011/04/29 10:59 pm.
Filed under: coding, collaborative, data, device, festival, Interactive Mapping, technology, web 2.0 Tags: festival
Do you have a photograph of a place in Derby? Then upload it to here http://mappingderby.com/, have it geotagged, printed and added to this brilliant, low-fi, photographic map of derby.
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FORMAT needs your help to Map Derby. Throughout FORMAT Festival we will be asking Derby visitors and residents to photograph the city streets under the theme of ‘Right Here, Right Now’. Each photograph will be uploaded and geo-tagged to create a unique map of the city. Give us your thoughts, memories and inspirations of the city.
There will be a growing installation in The Royal Insurance Buildings, 2 The Strand, Derby where a 3D map of the city will grow day by day.' http://mappingderby.com/
Ok, its not completely low fi they use a lovely printer called a poga printer that uses paper that has the ink inside it so no need to replace cartridges, apparently £8.99 for about 70 sheets (I realise I sound like I just discovered apps for the first time). But I love the pins and pictures relating to that area on a lovely a3 enalrging, hockney-joiner, A-to-Z photocopies that arent quite as smooth as google street view but I think adds to its charm and beauty with the handmade approach.
I also love that pins go off the map into unchartered terrains and only the photographs are the evidence of it. It is wierd for an exhibition to be on woodchip wallpaper I must admit and i suppose the only thing I didnt like was that the map had gaps because of the walls, couldnt orientate myself, not that i'm that familiar with Derby, but maybe i'm being picky. They have tried to adapt a space to present this project and the online digital geo-tagged images on a google map are great.
Format Festival was excellent too, with collaborations on projects with Magnum.
http://www.formatfestival.com/
Published on 2011/04/12 12:15 am.
Filed under: carto, collaborative, gadget, gps, locations, mapping, Uncategorized Tags: Low Fi, map, mapping, Photograph, Upload
Comob is a digital arts project that explores the potential for collaborative mapping with GPS technology. Comob was developed as a research tool to explore social and spatial relationships between people in motion.
'The relationships between people and spaces elicits a variety of responses, including intimacy, irritation, and exhilaration. We are interested in an awareness of where other people are and how that affects our experience of place. This workshop will look at how those relationships can be mapped, as live and moving visualisations'
Comob is an application developed for iPhones that explores collaborative mapping with GPS technology. The software allows members of a shared group to see each other’s position and movements in real time on their mobile phones.
You can download a free iPhone app ‘Comob net’ from the app store with more information on the project available at http://www.theportable.tv/contemporarycartographies. Wheres the Android app?
http://www.comob.org.uk/
Published on 2011/02/21 6:06 pm.
Filed under: 3g, collaborative, gps
Can you picture it! Well google are probably well on their way developing it, but I want to share more doodles and ideas on this blog more.
Won't it be brilliant to use this as an app on your phone, or automatically detect a langauge from a sender then automatically translate it to the language you understand in their reciever. It cant be far away from development.
There is voice to text search app from google on my android htc, i'm sure there is text to voice that I hear students playing with on the mac with it. I can appreciate it probably takes a lot of servers to manage with the global population wanting to converse and communicate in their own lanaguage to other businessmen.
If you take the shannon and weaver communication model diagram of 1949 was... the noise in the middle would be the server translating and detecting idioms (uk an example would be: dog and bone, or up north: put wood in 'oil) and dialects.
Example:
English Voice to English text - server translate text (like at this site on toolbar) - Japanese Text to Japanese Voice
I admit the text to voice convertor might be limited in its translation of tone of the message from intonation of speech and inflection that comes from the rubato of spoken word. Maybe in time it can measure the pace, the raise in volume, the length of pauses, irony, but for now the nearest we can get to word for word meaning would be excellent.
Published on 2010/10/14 1:26 pm.
Filed under: 3g, collaborative, communication, computer mediated, generator, global, gps, gsm, interactive, language, meaning, mobile, narrative, sound, voice
Its coming! With only needing one tweak (thankfully), and re-uploding of file for review I have ordered the proof copy.
Wanted to do some poster design for the next issue of my mag.
http://visualisationmagazine.com/volume3_isometrics.htm
I did the second one, but i loved the type overlapping of type too much, so made one individually. Will do this for everyone featured and send them one.
Really like the font: Consolas
Will update when I submit for Proof Copy. Sign up For notification of when proof is received and is available to buy... (I promise I wont spam you!)
Published on 2010/05/20 2:41 pm.
Filed under: collaborative, Info Architecture, interview, Interviews, isomap, isometric Tags: Consolas, Isometrics, Magazine Volume, Next Issue, Poster Design, Proof Copy, Tweak
This magazine collates some of the most creative and innovative visualisations of information that try to simplify the complex, such as:
Data Visualisations
Information Graphics
www.createspace.com/3454584
visualisationmagazine.com/volume3_isometrics.htm
This issue explores Isometric perspective through 74 pages featuring work from:
Co-Curator Arnaud Velten from as-map.com
Paul Kahn & Associates
Eboy
Funnel Inc
Good Magazine Inc & Timko & Klick
Information Architects
Pedro Monteiro
Krzysztof Lenk | co-creator of Dynamic Diagrams
Trainiac
plus many more...
Currently the PDF Files have been Submitted for review. 15 / 05 / 2010
Will update when I submit for Proof Copy. Sign up For notification of when proof is received and is available to buy... (I promise I wont spam you!)
Many thanks to everyone who contributed
Published on 2010/05/15 5:15 pm.
Filed under: collaborative, data, innovative, interview, Interviews, isomap, isometric Tags: art, Creative Process, data, data art, Data Formats, Data Visualization, Document, Good, Innovation, isometric, Magazine, Magazines and E-zines, PDF, Publishing, visualisation
Co-map is literally a collaborative map between myself and Arnaud Velten over at As-map.com to translate his excellent
3D CV Map into english and hopefully soon his fantastic map will be featured in an art gallery in america.
it is an excellent creation, looks damn good (i have seen a copy) there is more info at
www.co-map.org for a more detailed view. it is at 1 euro i think, really well worth a bid before
17th march end of auction
there aren't lots and they are well worth, I believe they are A3, more info here:
BARGAIN
cheers arnaud
Published on 2009/03/13 12:20 am.
Filed under: 3d, auction, buy, collaborative, cv, ebay, isomap, map
The new Nokia 6220 advertisement promoting its mapping technology available on it with, a giant collaborative map. Contrasting close ups of people of varying ages with close ups of pencils/pens even a wonderfully kept one of the pencil nib breaking it creates an excellant mix of creativity, enjoyment and concentration.
No surprise of its brilliance from Wieden & Kennedy, they just do it, sorry about the pun.
Credits:
Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, London
Agency Producer: Lucy Russell
Creative Director: Matt Gooden, Ben Walker
Art Director: Dan Norris
Copywriter: Ray Shaughnessy
Production Company: Partizan, London
Director: Antoine Bardou Jacquet
Producer: David Stewart
DOP: Damien Morisot
Art Director: Chris Oddy
Editor: Bill Smedley, Work, London
Post Production: The Mill, London
Telecine Operator: Paul Harrison
On-line Operator: Barnsley
Music Composer: Wave, London
More at: http://advertisingpawn.com
featured here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2168552%3AVideo%3A788
Published on 2008/08/03 2:42 pm.
Filed under: advert, cell, collaborative, creative, doodle, drawing, gadget, graphic, illustration, map, maps, nokia, pastel, phone, sketch, tv, visual maps, visualisation, wieden kennedy, writing
Not sure how I found the link but i discovered this intersting little timeline map of modernism. Colourful, capturing your atttention thorugh key with a soft white and grey column background to help seperate each individual year from 1910 - 1950.
Mapping Modernism charts 10 of the influencial designers for the period where you can scroll horizontally to see where these designers were at a point in time & click on the time bars to find out more like a concept map (scroll down for description). You can also see a designer's biography by clicking on their name. Some of the ones I know of being:
Serge Chermayeff
Theo Van Doesburg - De Stijl
E. McKnight Kauffer - his tessalating birds illustration for the underground ads.
& Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Simliar to my type timeline map.
The exhibition Modernism: Designing a brave New World - 1914 - 1939 was 'the first exhibition to explore the concept of Modernism in depth, rather than restricting itself, as previous exhibitions have, to particular geographical centres or to individual decades. Many forms of art and design are represented in the show. But as befits a period when the debates surrounding how people should live took centre stage, the exhibition focuses on architecture and design. The range of objects – including architectural, interior, furniture, product, graphic and fashion design as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, prints, collage – reflects the period's emphasis on the unity of the arts and the key role of the fine arts in shaping contemporary visual culture'.
Some of these objects include the Club Chair by Marcel Breuer from the Bauhaus under Walter Gropius's leadership. But also the more graphic genius of Hary Beck's Underground Map that has spawned so many more stylised variations in 1933.
Great Mapping.
Found here: http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1331_modernism/mapping_modernism.html
Published on 2008/07/21 3:12 pm.
Filed under: aesthetic, architecture, art, artefacts, collaborative, colour, communication, concept map, constellations, creative, designs, graphic, mapping, spatial, text, time, tube
Landlines is a multi-user collaborative drawing tool for GPS enabled mobile phones, in which users draw by moving in real space.
There are two different visual interfaces for drawing these route maps using this innovative drawing tool, the ever popular googlemaps application, and a Flash application ‘Mapper’.
Mapper allows you to see routes as live drawings, in collaboration with other users. This is the application that they use for exhibitions and workshops.They have concentrated on the drawn quality of the line, keeping the whereabouts of users anonymous, and on the resulting map like drawings gradually revealing a place.
These are great, abstract ways of drawing with different media and create route maps of their journeys.
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Published on 2008/06/30 4:06 pm.
Filed under: collaborative, drawing, locations, map, mapping, multidirectional, technology, topographic, visualisation, world
