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 [...]
We often think of maps as objective representations of geography. I would argue that objective maps are impossible: they always involve subjectivity. Take for example the classic Mercator world map: it shows the world from a European-centric point of view. Maps are an expression of political power, and at the same time they are a [...]
