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WatchThe View Outside Your Window
Final Schedule
15th to 22nd: Do 2 more tests and analyse results
22nd to 29th: Do 2 more tests and mock-up installation
29th to 5th: Test projection materials and develop strategy for building
5th to 12th: Do final walks
12th to 19th: Finalize setup and prepare for presentation
From now on I need to settle down and make sure that this project is manifested in the way that is best for it in the time and...
John Burroughs on the view from the Summit of...
We saw the world as the hawk or the balloonist sees it when he is three thousand feet in the air. How soft and flowing all the outlines of the hills and mountains beneath us looked! The forests dropped down and undulated away over them, covering them like a carpet …
All was mountain and forest on every hand. Civilization seemed to have done little more than to have scratched this rough,...
Slide Mountain
Slide may have been to John Burroughs what Everest was to Sir Edmund Hillary or what Denali was to Bradford Washburn. The man and mountain are inextricably linked. Burroughs wrote reverently about this, the tallest of the Catskills. He looked admiringly from afar at the peak that reminded him of a “gigantic horse (that) has got his head down grazing” long before he dared to try to sit...
February 2010
42 posts
ChatRoulette Experiment: Revealing Space within...
The places that appear on Chat Roulette are always dark or lowly light rooms. The person either sits away from the computer with their hand resting on their body or they sit very close and use the computer to hide their face. The exception to this is groups of people where there are either a bunch of giggling young girls peering into the camera from a brightly lit room or groups of two in a...
Nina Katchadourian →
Her work focuses on maps, and nature. She dissects the maps and displays the fragments, usually road networks, as specimens. She has several interesting pieces under the umbrella of “Uninvited Collaborations with Nature”.
The Sound We Make Together a project by Harrell... →
“Video projection and poster series. I had various groups of people from Houston: a baptist choir, a meditation class, a break dance group, dogs from a dog park, and ten other groups doing what they normally do but in the gallery space. The video projection sort of recreated them being there one after another. I made a poster for each group, copies went up all over Houston and were also...
"Hello Friend" a project by Harrell Fletcher →
“Part of a series of similar videos shot in different places with local people. Walking around the neighborhood, the person I work with picks up objects off the ground and then presents them to me in their opening hand. The original project was done in Portland, OR with Jess Hilliard. This series from Queens New York was a collaboration with Raymond Denson.”
Does the internet exist?
For an individual, standing in a field.
With no device except his/herself
to percieve the external stimuli.
With no portal to delve into the digital world
Does it exist for the individual, standing in a field?
Database Film Projects
EternalMoonwalk.com
starwarsuncut.com
Man with a movie camera remake
passingby.tv: see the world from the window of a car and choose to look out of different windows
Johnathon harris whale hunt: documentation of every heartbeat of a journey
tenement.org/folksongs: tour of lower east side in sound/mapping
survivetheoutbreak.com : choose your own adventure film
mimiandflo.com: a choose...
Daniel Liss's Seven Map project →
WatchWilliam Cartwright Discusses “Concepts for an Affective Atlas”
On Reading
“In reality, the activity of reading has on the contrary all the characteristics of a silent production: the drift across the page, the metamorphosis of the text effected by the wandering eyes of the reader, the improvisation and expectation of meanings inferred from a few words, leaps over written spaces in an ephemeral dance. But since he is incapable of stockpiling (unless he writes or...
On The Use of Space
“But our research has concentrated above all on the uses of space,[31] on the ways of frequenting or dwelling in a place, on the complex processes of the art of cooking, and on the many ways of establishing a kind of reliability within the situations imposed on an individual, that is, of making it possible to live in them by reintroducing into them the plural mobility of goals and desires-an art...
On the Tactics of Living in "Civilization"
“Increasingly constrained, yet less and less concerned with these vast frameworks, the individual detaches himself from them without being able to escape them and can henceforth only try to outwit them, to pull tricks on them, to rediscover, within an electronicized and computerized megalopolis, the “art” of the hunters and rural folk of earlier days.”
The Practice of Everyday Life
On the Limitations of Statistical Inquiry
“Statistical inquiry, in breaking down these “efficacious meanderings” into units that it defines itself, in reorganizing the results of its analyses according to its own codes, “finds” only the homogenous. The power of its calculations ties in its ability to divide, but it is precisely through this analytic fragmentation that it loses sight of what it claims to seek and to represent.”
— Michel...
On the Act of Making
“As unrecognized producers, poets of their own acts, silent discoverers of their own paths in the jungle of functionalist rationality, consumers produce through their signifying practices something that might be considered similar to the “wandering lines” (“lignes derre”) drawn by the autistic children studied by F. Deligny: “indirect” or “errant” trajectories obeying their own logic. In the...
“And I forgot the element of chance introduced by circumstances, calm or haste,...”
– Jacques Sojcher, La Demarche poetique
Lectures from The State of The Map Conference →
Make Your Own Map (Different From Google MapMaker) →
Countryside Maps →
Wikipedia Page on Collaborative Maps →
Production Timeline
Feb 20th- March 1st: Refine Concept, Speak to Kio Stark and Marianne Petit,
Write instructions
March 1st : Present
March 1st – 8th: Launch
March 8th – 31st: Build web infrastructure
April: Collect, Reflect, and Write Paper
This is a strange site called SIGNPOST.ORG →
The Sign Post
An object used to identify places and measure the distance from where you are standing to where they are. Imagine appropriating its form to measure personal distances and act as an emotional gps.
What Dimitris Says:
Nahana:
“The Buba and the Kiki effect, what’s in a name?”
All is in a name; maps, metaphors, representation are names, symbols.
“Orality and literacy, what is the gap between the oral culture of my grandfather and the literate culture of myself? Can I go back? Can I reconnect? Can I desire what I have never known?”
When we move the landscape moves. When we are...
The landscape of our memory has been penetrated by the landscape of the internet. We see the world through the lense of Youtube, Flickr, and other user-generated content collection points. When we go out into the world, we project our memories of digital memories onto the physical space. We see a wave and remember the video of a surfing competition we saw online. We see a bird and identify it...
Peter Greenaway - A Walk Through H (1978) →
Thesis: The Mapping Project… tentative title
Statement: I want to reconcile geography with the digital age (which is thought to make geography and place unimportant) by:
Cultivating a sense of place and space
Making people use their hands to define space and use their feet to explore space
Encourage the psycho-geographical drift
The Project: Allow people to create personal maps of their explorations in real space and tie them to...
THE XIU XIU DISPOSABLE CAMERA PROJECT!!! →
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“A man takes on the task of drawing the world. The years pass by; he populates a...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, L’Artifice
Counting Time 30 minutes at a Time
“When modern sailors tried to “keep” time they found the sand-glass met their needs quite well. They used at least two or three variations. To keep track of their speed they used a device called a “Chip Log” which required a sand-glass of 30 seconds duration. To keep track of how long they worked, they used a sand-glass of 30 minutes duration. Now the duty time aboard...