Monthly Archives: April 2013

Here &There by BERG

Trying to get some information on Google Maps. Here are a few interesting facts from the WikiPedia entry: * Most of the world’s current satellite imagery is over 5 years old. * “Satellite” images are often taken with airplanes. * “In September 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Google Maps quickly updated its satellite [...]

Sonification would be an interesting approach for my project. Here are a few good references: CITY SYMPHONIES: “Electric cars are increasingly using synthesised sounds in order to mimic the recognisable noise of the internal combustion engine. I explore an alternative in which the sound that the cars generate changes according to its relationship to other [...]

I would like to see a combination of this realtime London subway map and this piece that turns the NYC subway into an interactive string instrument. Conductor: www.mta.me from Alexander Chen on Vimeo. Song Lines is an album by Tom Johnson’s Shark that based on the Barcelona subway system. I wonder if the title is [...]

The map is not the territory. This statement is very relevant to my project, but I only found out today that this is an Alfred Korzybski quote. I came across it in Evgeny Morozov’s piece on Tim O’Reilly. The first time I heard about Korzybski a couple of years ago was when I was doing [...]