Exhibition/workshop by Sharon Daniel and Karen O’Rourke from Monday 25th through Thursday 28th November 2002, salle Michel Journiac, Université Paris 1, Fontenay-aux-Roses.

We are exploring the notion of a database aesthetics in the context of the prototyping and test of interactive systems designed for the creation and the collection of maps. Mapping is for us an intersubjective way to sculpt information and model communication. It allows us to study emerging and non-hierarchical information systems as evidenced in two projects in development: Subtract the Sky and A Map Larger than the Territory.

Subtract the Sky (Sharon Daniel and Mark Bartlett with John Jacobs, Olga Trusova, Adam Hiatt and Victor Dods)

“Subtract the Sky” provides individuals and groups with an online environment for collective and emergent methods of mapping. Subtract the Sky invites participants to become cartographers, enabled with the tools they need to produce an archive of maps that trace their own histories and re-map their own social and political worlds. Participants create this archive by contributing data,creating categories and associations, and re-interpreting existing data using a multi-user image editor and a real-time visualization of Subtract the Sky's evolving database. Subtract the Sky received support from the Fondation Langlois and the Banff Center for the Arts.

A Map Larger Than the Territory (Karen O'Rourke).

“A Map Larger Than the Territory” is a Web application capable of representing not only participants' physical itineraries but also their subjective experience of them, a "Map of Tender" charted by surveillance technology. It will include:
1. A method of notation for participants to recreate and visualize their itineraries online.
2. A searchable database of urban itineraries in Paris to begin with, then elsewhere.
3. A Web interface that allows one to view all the itineraries on file.

We would like to thank Fabrice Oehl for his technical help. This event was made possible by the support of the France Berkeley Fund and the UFR des Arts Plastiques et des Sciences de l’Art, Université Paris 1.

photos : Fabrice Oehl - Xavier Perrot

Introduction [Australian aborigines find their way in unfamiliar country without using navigational instruments...}

Questionnaires [Write up an itinerary]

Travelogues [Written itineraries]

New York - Baghdad
[Navigating in Baghdad/NY with a map of New York/Baghdad]

Itineraries Mapped

Programme

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