Interstices Urbains Temporaires
2009-06-08 14:04:42 - by
Antoine Berlon
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Cette carte présente une tentative de représentations des interstices existant dans le quartier de La Chapelle situé dans le 18ème arrondissement parisien. Ce projet s’intéresse aux expérimentations architecturales et artistiques menées autours des interstices urbains. Il faut entendre par "interstices", les zones territoriales résistant encore aux politiques foncières de l’aménagement urbain. La ville, dans son ensemble, dispose de quantités d’espaces vierges d’activités : on parle de terrains vagues, de friches, d’indéterminations spatiales,...Leur fonctionnements diffèrent des espaces classiques de la ville, et "l’auto-gestion" prend ici une ampleur significative. Les objectifs de cette recherche-action sont d’explorer une série de situations urbaines interstitielles (spatiales, temporelles, institutionnelles, interculturelles…) et d’expérimenter des micro-dispositifs participatifs d’intervention artistique et architecturale à différentes échelles (quartier, ville). Pour plus d’informations, visitez le site des Interstices Urbains Temporaires
Art et GPS, pas incompatibles,...
2009-05-29 15:18:42 - by
Antoine Berlon
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Daniel Belasco Rogers, Berlin drawing 2003 - 2007
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Jeremy Wood, ACS Cobham International School, 2008
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Jeremy Wood, ACS Cobham International School, 2008
Le GPS s’est installé dans notre quotidien comme outil technologique à part entière. L’Art s’est donc tout naturellement saisi de cette technique qui bouleverse notre conception du paysage, en voici la preuve. D’autres points de vue sur l’Observatoire des nouveaux médias.
Cartographie relationnelle
2009-05-29 15:05:05 - by
Antoine Berlon
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Cette carte réalisée par Dominique Peysson présente le pouvoir de la carte en matière de transmition de l’information. La carte peut apparaitre comme l’outil central capable de retranscrire physiquement une multitude de données diverses et variées (géographiques, économiques, psychologiques, sociologiques,...). Voir ici les travaux s’intitulant "Battre les cartes, ou la mise en relation de deux territoires" pour de plus amples informations.
Denis Wood on maps, neighborhoods and pumpkins
2008-07-02 12:14:10 - by
Nicolas Malevé
From the archive of This American Life’s radio, a wonderful broadcast described as:
Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way—by drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world redrawn by the five senses.Especially moving is the interview of Denis Wood who creates maps of Boylan Heights, Raleigh, North Carolina, his neighborhood: a traditional street locator map; a map of all the sewer and power lines under the earth’s surface; a map of how light falls on the ground through the leaves of trees; a map of where all the Halloween pumpkins are each year; and a map of all the graffiti in the neighborhood
I couldn’t resist to make a partial transcript of the interview. Here it goes:
Denis Wood: I have a map of the pumpkins that were on the porches at Halloween.
Ira Glass: What does it tell you?
DW: That’s actually a very interesting map. I like to relate it to the map that shows the number of times each residence was mentioned in the Boyler Heights newsletter in the past 25 years
IG: You made a map of that?
DW: Yes, you take all the newsletters and you just note every address that appears in it.
Wether it appears as the name of a specific individual in the neighborhood or as address and you just do frequenties attached to each one of the residences. And the thing that strucked me about that map when I first did it was that some locations, some dwellings ... are frequently mentioned no matter whoever lives in them and I imagined that who were going to be movers and shakers in the neighborhood pick homes that are in important locations in the neighborhood are architecturally significant or historically significant
IG: They have just got more money
DW: Believe me, money is what’s behind both the pumpkin map and that map.
IG: As you told me this, I was thinking where are the pumpkins? Where is the greatest proliferation of orange pumpkins.
DW: Oh that’s not what the map was. I photographed the pumpkins face and then I printed them black on black so you see the eyes and the mouths of the pumpkins on the black background
IG: So the map of the pumpkins is a map where there are just little eyes and pumpkins mouths floating by the houses which have them
DW: They are just floating on the black background just like the traffic lights were floating...And the map of the traffic signs is just traffic signs, there are no streets or anything. On the map of the streets there are just streets, on the map of the trees there are just trees. And what you do when you go through these maps is you begin to build up even though it is never said a kind of structural knowledge that you take away as a kind of resonance of that neighborhood. You know the idea that we have to have the pumpkins drawn against the streets only makes sense when you don’t have any other images. As soon as you have other images, you say oh my... look look look where these pumpkins are, they are just exactly where, and I here answer your question, exactly where people are mentioned all the time in the newsletter And if you go away to the edges of the neighborhood where people aren’t mentioned in the newsletter My good they don’t have pumpkins on their porches
IG: So the people mentioned in the newsletter they tend to be people in the bigger homes
DW: Yes, they do.
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DW: [I made maps of] patterns of leaf light in the neighborhood light coming through the leaves of the trees in summer time
IG: What does that tell you?
DW: They are what it is to live in the neighborhood. the neighborhood is experienced as a clutch of patterns of light and sound and smell and tastes and communication with others
...
DW: But I guess, what I am pushing for here is selecting subject for cartographic display that are other than these that are typical
IG: it almost sounds like you are trying to create a ... novel
DW: I am
IG: but with pure symbols of map
DW: yeah. why not?
note: I found the link to the broadcast on the excellent Perrygeo weblog
Statistiques qui poussent depuis les profondeurs enfuies des bases de données souterraines
2007-09-25 23:26:46 - by
Pierre Huyghebaert
Hans Rosling, expert suédois en statistique et médecine, est le promoteur très efficace de Gapminder, une intéressante interface de production de statistiques animées, récement rachetée par Google... Son graphisme assez rudimentaire rends peu justice à la finesse de ses critères et à la justesse de ses choix, mais c’est accessoire. Après avoir essayé le système, il faut voir Monsieur Rosling commenter live avec exhaltation les chiffres évoluants simultanément année par année aux très branchées conférences Ted de Monterey (BMW-powered). Et voir comment en 2006 puis en 2007 il insiste avec une vigueur communicative et visuelle sur les articulations sensibles des données qu’il manipule est plutôt ravigorant ! Irrésistible et bien sur culte.
"Nocturne, of Chopin, so beautiful music. But few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to listen to the music to understand how beautiful it is. But often that’s how we present statistics ; we just show the notes we don’t play the music."
