OpenStreetMap - Project Haiti

A visualisation of the response to the earthquake by the OpenStreetMap community. Within 12 hours the white flashes indicate edits to the map (generally by tracing satellite/aerial photography).

Over the following days a large number of additions to the map are made with many roads (green primary, red secondary) added. Also many other features were added such as the blue glowing refugee camps that emerge.

A lot of these edits were made possible by a number of satellite and aerial imagery passes in the days after the quake, that were released to the public for tracing and analysis.

The OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld shown by Richard Cantwell at the OSM re:public workshop on Saturday. The 2009 version is due shortly.

Friday, 13 of November, 6.30pm

IMOCA, Lad Lane (Off Baggot Street), Dublin 2

Presenters:
Martin John Callanan is an artist whose work spans numerous media and engages both emerging and commonplace technology. His work includes translating active communication data into music; freezing in time the earth’s water system; writing thousands of letters; capturing newspapers from around the world as they are published; taming wind onto the Internet and broadcasting his precise physical location live for over two years. Martin is currently Teaching Fellow in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.

Jules Hackett & Paddy Cahill

Jules Hackett is an multimedia artist based in Dublin. He works with installations, digital media and live visuals. He’s currently undertaking an MA in digital art in the National College of Art & Design.

Paddy Cahill is a documentary director based in Dublin. Since graduating in 2006 from IADT, he has worked the past two years for ‘Mind the Gap Films’. He has just completed a short documentary on the Irish Times cartoonist Tom Matthews which is currently doing the festival circuit.

The music video for the band ‘the 202s’ is a frame by frame animation using a technique called rotoscoping. This process firstly involved shooting and editing video of the band. Once projected onto a surface from above, we went about drawing and photographing just under 3000 frames using 11 phonebooks in total. The video has recently been nominated for an Irish Music Video Award.

Live performance by: Benjamin Seror
Benjamin Seror (Lives and works in Paris) His work underlines links of non communication in his practices of drawing, music or writing. He aims to understand their specificities and extract possible uses. Any shape, object, colour or people produces an incalculable number of pieces of information. From anecdote to History, they reveal, their own temporalities, according to their rules. Many pieces of information echo together, others fade away. The question remains, how long this silence will keep on going, and, if the absence of understanding is necessary for understanding.

The complete story of Marina Bay
A theoretic solo-opera about the dangers of living on a volcano island.
by Benjamin Seror after a sculpture of Grégory Cuquel.

Marina Bay is a small island where the sculptor Gregory Cuquel discovered how fascinating a volcano can be. After few weeks on he Island, back in his studio, he built, in one illuminated night, a replica of the volcano he saw on the Island. At this point of this story, the theoretic opera will be a way to analyze the different faces of volcano across many legends and figures to solve this question, can a love song touch a volcano.

More information and map

Join me and TacTic tomorrow Friday the 13th March, 10am at Church Street Bridge ( see map) for a magical mystery tour though the streets of Dublin as we use GPS to write a giant word on the city, which can be seen later in Google Earth.

Come join in, have a walking conversation about your projects or ideas, or anything you like. If you have any experiences or scenes you want to create along the route, please let us know.

The walk will continue from 10am to about 1pm, ending with a concrete picnic. You can join in at any time and follow us on twitter or call/text 086 3667857 to find out where we are at anytime.

Vague Terrain 13 citySCENE has been launched and includes a piece I wrote about my Joyce Walks project. The issue which is curated by
Greg J. Smith indexes a wide range of strategies for representing and visualizing urban space. Drawing on the collective talent of an international pool of new media artists and scholars,
citySCENE catalogs how cartography, infrastructure and locative media shape perception in the contemporary city. Many submissions also explore more subjective urban experiences and consider notions of vision, acoustic ecology, movement and agency through experiments and
interventions staged in a number of global cities.

Contributors: Abinadi Meza, Andrea Rojas, Mattia Casalegno & Michael
Langeder, Michael Chen & Jason J. Lee, Conor McGarrigle, David Drury, Franke Dresme, Greg Giannis, Hector Centeno, Katharine S. Willis, Michael Surtees, Mitchell Whitelaw, Olga Mink, Ivan Safrin & Christian Marc Schmidt, Thomas Dreher, Tori Foster and Yukiko Bowman.

The excellent Atlas of Cyberspace by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin is now available as a free download here

A late follow up on 1000 Joyce Walks, as I mentioned earlier the project was a great success the final tally is we had walks in 39 cities (multiple walks in many cities) throughout the world. I'll be adding more walks to the gallery over the next while. Thanks to everyone who participated and if you took part please don't forget to document your walk.

The map above is one of my Bloomsday walks in Berlin click here for the full size mashup

It's Bloomsday and 1000 Joyce Walks the project which lets you re-enact Bloomsday where-ever you are. We have walks in over 25 cities around the world already planned but it's not too late to join in and celebrate Bloomsday in the psychogeographical way. Click here for more details.

There are only six days left to Bloomsday and the 1000 Joyce Walks psychogeography project. Sign up now to participate.

What: 1000 Joyce Walks

How: Generate a map and walk in your city

I'm now seeking participants a new project 1000 Joyce Walks taking place on June 16th (Bloomsday) 2008.

1000 Joyce Walks is a participatory global intervention which aims to create a day of psychogeographical exploration with 1000 interventions in 24 hours across the globe.

The project uses the Joyce Walks project to remap routes from James Joyce's Ulysses to any city in the world to be used as the basis of walks which navigate urban space in a new and unexpected way .

Participation is easy all you have to do is -
- Use the Joyce Walks website to generate a walk in any city of your
choice,
- invite your friends and peer group to join you on your walk
- document the experience simply with some photos and/or videos,
- use the Joyce Walks site to generate a googlemaps mashup of your walk
to be shared on the Joyce Walks site or embedded on any webpage

More information available here

UPDATE As expected it is both fake and a cheesy guerilla marketing campaign for some company, still a nice illustration of the thin line that some locative media work threads.

The biggest drawing in the world by Eric Nordenankar in which he sent a GPS enabled suitcase around the world with the tracklog making the drawing. While at first glance it's a really cool idea it becomes a bit like an extended guerilla promo for DHL and left me hoping that it's an elaborate put-on, in which case it is cool otherwise it's hard to see it other than art 1 planet 0.

I'm a little late with this one but I must mention that Blackletter.ie have launched their Art Finder Google Maps mashup which locates and archives art projects/events which have taken place outside of the gallery. Already an important archival resource for temporary and location based artworks it also has the facility for artists to easily add projects to the database which should ensure that it will be a dynamic rather then a static archive of ephemeral art practice.

I'll be launching Dublin 24 a new three channel video projection which will be projected on the Irish Times building in Tara Street this Friday as part of the Lightwave festival. The work tells the story of a single 24 hour period in Dublin as seen by over 120 traffic cameras.

The exhibition continues until the 9th February

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via Networked Performance

Google Earth gets an update for Antarctica with the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) for the International Polar Year, check it out by downloading the kmz file which includes information on the 240 projects of IPY including updates from the scientists as they work.

After Edushi.com City8.com is another very cool Chinese mapping site offering 360° street view for 21 Chinese cities.

Edushi.com very cool simcity style 3D maps of Chinese cities. Probably much better if you can read Chinese.

Joyce Walks Installation view : Best in Show, Digital Hub Dublin

Best in Show the selected best of this summers graduate exhibitions which is showing my Joyce Walks has been held over for another week due to popular demand and now ends Nov 23rd.

To celebrate Bloomsday I'd like to invite everyone to take part in a Bloomsday psychogeographical event by undertaking their own Bloomsday re-enactments in any city in the world except Dublin.

To take part generate your own Bloomsday route using Joyce Walks a web 2.0 service which generates walking maps based on routes from Joyce's Ulysses for any city in the world. Based on the map create your own Bloomsday event documenting it as you go and use Joyce Walks to generate a mashup of your walk which will be saved to a database as a permanent record of the event.

More information here

Explore Baghdad through the streets of New York.

Santiago Ortiz's > Neural Zapping Folks visualises non-linear zapping through the Internet, a path leading to the inside of a web of relations, a web that can be explored from one tag to a site, to another tag, to another site... from word to image to word to image. NeuroZappingFolks is then the simulation of a brain lost in the web (lost between servers, but also lost in Internet's double identity: word and image). and like the best visualisations it's also very beautiful.
via networked performance

Spotted in Google Maps on a Tokyo rooftop, anyone know who he is?
More images here

You may or may not have noticed that GoogleBono has been offline for the last few days, this was due to the Google Maps switchover to version 2 of the API which I had neglected to upgrade to. As the coding of the first version was such a terrible hack it was also an opportunity to do it properly but now I'm glad to say that the new and improved Bono Probability Positioning System V. 2.01 is now back online.

Real Time Rome is an MIT SENSEable City project which uses aggregated data from mobile phones, buses and taxis in Rome to give real visualisations of the dynamics of the city. Curently on show at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.
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Google Bono is being exhibited at Media Art Friesland in the Netherlands opening today and continuing until October 1st.

A collection of over 100 placemarks for Google Earth showing locations mentioned in Joyce's A portrait of the Artist
via Google Earth community