SubJective Cartography

Workshop at the Center for Experimental Media Arts (CEMA), Srishti school of art, design and technology (Bangalore, India), from 23/11/09 to 5/12/09

With Ewen Chardronnet, Benjamin Cadon, Alexander Roemer, Loreto Martinez Troncoso, Hélène Chaudeau, Gepeto Girault, and the students and artists of Srishti

http://bangalore.metamap.fr

http://cema.srishti.ac.in/content/node/490

http://bengaluru.blogs.labomedia.org

Workshop week 1 (23/11 - 27/11) :

Monday 23

Morning

• General Presentation of the workshop

• Presentation of Ewen Chardronnet' background
• Presentation : Situationist theory, Psychogeography, Unitary Urbanism
  • Situationist International and context : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Lefebvre
  • http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/6.unitaryurb.htm
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography
  • http://www.notbored.org/UU.html
  • Adam Curtis' "Century of the Self" : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8953172273825999151&ei=khMJS4LMFYXKwgPeuNSmDg&q=century+of+the+self&hl=fr&client=firefox-a#
  • Jacques Tati : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Tati
  • Jacques Tati's "Playtime" 1967 (Modern industrial technologies are represented by Tati as obstructions to daily life and an interference to natural human interaction) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playtime
  • Eyal Weizman' "Walking Through Walls" talking about use of french philosophy in Israeli army tactics : http://eipcp.net/transversal/0507/weizman/en
  • Beyond Henri Lefebvre conference : http://www.henrilefebvre.org/hlt/
  • Zine about "Places you're not supposed to go" in Toronto : http://www.infiltration.org
  • Nomadic observatory of Stalker collective doing "walkshops" : http://www.osservatorionomade.net/
  • Stalker collective : http://www.stalkerlab.it/
  • Toronto Psychogeography Society : http://psychogeography.ca/blog/
• Presentation : Rapid history of GPS Art
  • Masaki Fujihata' Impressing velocity : http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Archive/1994/Impressing_Velocity/Works/impressing_j.html
  • Marlo Peljhan's Urban-Colonization Orientation Gear-144 : http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/urbanaria/avtor/e/peljhan.htm
  • GPS Drawing : http://www.gpsdrawing.com
  • Eva and Franco Mattes' VOPOS self-surveillance project 2002 : http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/vopos/
  • Esther Polak's Real Time Amsterdam : http://realtime.waag.org/
  • Esther Polak's Milk Project, tracking milk from a Latvian farm to chesse market in Holland : http://www.milkproject.net/
  • Esther Polak's Nomadic Milk is going to Nigeria : http://nomadicmilk.net/
  • MIT Senseable Lab visualisation of GSM connectivity in Rome : http://senseable.mit.edu/realtimerome/

• Presentation of Benjamin Cadon - Labomedia' background
• Presentation : GPS and Cartography Mash-up
  • Artistic works
    • http://www.laboratoryplanet.org/ :Mapping the Laboratory planet by Bureau d'Etudes (développée par Labomedia)
    • http://www.imaginarylandscape.fr/ : Sylvie Ungauer geolocalise news from french medias that talks about foreign contries
    • http://globalmove.us/ mad maps from Jodi, they propose http://geogoo.net/ des photos de leur expo
    • http://www.biomapping.net/ Christian Nold - emotionnal maps
    • http://www.pachube.com/ Pachube : web services initiated by Usman Haque to connect sensors and virtual worlds in a geolocalised way
    • http://locusonus.org/soundmap/023/ audio stream in real time by locus sonus
    • http://www.soundseeker.org/ soundseeker : postal sound cards on the city of new-york
    • http://www.escoitar.org/?lang=gl artistical sound cartography
    • http://www.arpla.fr/canal2/prototype/ The Locative Media Art Laboratory / Paris 8 university proposed a series of walks threw a cartographic approach
    • http://www.towards.be : Towards.be: subjective mapping project of Brussels territory
    • http://www.unsiteblanc.com/ : Philippe Vasset visits "white zones" he found on maps
    • http://map.isnotthemap.net/ The invisible links propose a serie of detournement of google map
    • http://oneblockradius.org/obr.html One Block Radius project by Brooklyn artists Christina Ray et Dave Mandl, psychogeographic survey of the block where New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art will build a new facility
    • http://fridav.ljudmila.org/wiki/Main_Page Luka and his multi sensor bike which build maps
    • http://www.helmutsmits.nl/english/deadpixele.html Dead pixel on google earth
    • http://www.we-love-the.net/Stweet/ : Google street view + twitter, a proposal by We Love The Net
    • http://bettina-wind.blogspot.com/

• • Tech aspects : mapping with the web

Tools to use/make maps on line :

• • • Microsoft maps, Yahoo maps, Google map, Geo Portail - french mapping institute, the "old" mapquest
    • openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them
      • cloudmade or how to make maps differently
  • mapomatix : collaboratives maps with open source tools

Abstractions :

• • • What is an API ? : Application Programming Interface
    • Comparing map sources : mapstraction
    • openlayers Free Maps for the Web

Exemples of Mash-up :

• • • http://twittearth.com/ : twit in real time on the earth
    • http://beta.twittervision.com/ : a second one !
    • http://flickrvision.com/ : geolocalised photos added on flickr
    • http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html : anonym contributions on wikipedia
    • http://www.flashearth.com/ : differents visits of the planet with flash interface and possibility to change map servor (google, yahoo, microsoft, open layer, ...)
    • http://www.swisstrains.ch/ : live map of swiss trains!
    • http://www.urbanmobs.fr/fr/ : visualising GSM by Orange Lab : videos
    • http://www.placeopedia.com/ : cartography of wikipedia articles
    • http://www.ubilabs.net/tourdefrance/ : Tour de france 2008 on a real time map
    • http://www.london2012.com/in-your-area/map/index.php Plan Londres2012
    • http://cabspotting.org/client.html cab tracker (rickshaw ?)
    • http://www.mapmytracks.com to follow people practising sport in real time
    • http://twittermood.org/ le "mod" of a country depending of tweets !
    • http://sanfrancisco.crimespotting.org/ : crime in San francisco live
    • + social networks based on a map, software for mobile phones, ...

• • • Complements to the book Making Maps : http://makingmaps.net/2009/06/22/making-psychogeography-maps/ - http://mappingweirdstuff.wordpress.com/

Afternoon

• Contemporary art and urban interventions (1h)
  • Francis Alÿs' walk in London CCTV, text by Paula Roush : http://www.scribd.com/doc/16439182/Francis-Als-The-Clandestine-Way-Pedestrian-Everyday-Under-CCTV-or-How-to-Walk-the-Path-of-Least-Surveillance
  • Francis Alÿs' walk in Jerusalem : http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/arts/design/13chan.html
  • Hamish Fulton, "no walk, no work" : http://www.hamish-fulton.com/
  • Project "Anarchitekton" by Jordi Colomer : http://www.jordicolomer.com/anarchitekton/intro_eng.htm
  • Network of urban interventions : http://www.citymined.org/
  • Aram Bartholl with markers ! http://www.datenform.de/mapeng.html
  • The Graffiti Research Lab : http://graffitiresearchlab.com/
  • Graff with a beamer and a laser : http://blog.ehrmann.org/films/attentats_artistiques_v2.html
  • Daltex, a person walking on the walls : http://daltex-lab.com/bonom3/index.html
  • Etienne Boulanger "squatting" sculptures : Photos and Vidéo, Single Room Hotel
  • Marie Denis "coulée de farine" : http://marissima.labomedia.org/mixar/index.html

travaux en ligne

• Group exercice (2h)

Constitution of 3 persons groups to prepare a presentation of each participant

Each participant is invited to think of :

• • an artistic statement : 3 mn
  • his cultural background
  • his main interests and tech skills
  • his primary interest in participating in the workshop
• Followed by a collective presentation of each participant

Tuesday 24

Morning

• presentation : general description of the electromagnetic spectrum
  • Atlas of the Electromagnetic Spectrum : http://spectrumatlas.org/spectrum/
  • Natural EM Waves (listen to spaceweathersound)
  • Politics and EM waves Citizen's Guide To The Airwaves
• presentation : Health and EM waves
  • Equipment : http://www.lessemf.com
  • Protection : http://www.emf-health.com/

• EM & art
  • Tempest (install tempest gisle, erci berger), rt32, radioastronomy, radio art, brain waves (perfs, video games)
  • Theremin, DIY theremin arduino, tesla bobine (star wars), Ferroid Snoil or snoil web, wifi camera by husman Haque
  • Space sounds compositions : http://www.radio-astronomy.net
  • Theremin Center : www.theremin.ru/
  • Andrey Smirnov, artist and director of Theremin Center : http://asmir.theremin.ru

• Traditional medecines, radiesthesy (water)

Afternoon

• industrial animism presentation
• how to make visible/audible the invisible
  • visualising Electromagnetic and electric fields
  • wardriving knsgem pynetmonitor, magnetic derive exemple by apo33
  • Sensors, Rfid's in question, works of Touch designer group, Semiconductor art collective, etc.
  • air polution :
    • intheair project by Nerea Calvillo video demo
    • lamontreverte by la FING : http://lamontreverte.org/vis/

• Visualizing Complexity
  • Design of information
  • Visual Complexity : exercice
    • exemples : The Remotest place on Earth, Data visualisation of a social network, Web Trend Map v3.0

Picto quest : mobile phone GSM, wifi, health and EMF + indian specific pictograms

• Pictograms research
• selection, printing pictograms

Wednesday 25

Morning

• Discussions on main points of interests of the group in exploring Bangalore

To determine interests for week 2

Afternoon

• Constitution of smaller groups with specific skills and interests

These groups would focus on : DIY sensors, production of pictograms and picto quest, psychogeography and urbanism, "treasure hunt", interventions in the city, web integration, conducting interviews and contacts in town - to be precised during the discussions

Thursday 26

Morning

• Presentation of Alexander Roemer
  • http://www.exyzt.org
  • http://www.raumlabor-berlin.de
  • http://www.constructlab.net

Afternoon

• Explorations
• DIY workshop

Friday 27

Morning

• Presentation of upload process on http://www.metamap.fr
• Presentation of the workshop blog : http://bengaluru.blogs.labomedia.org

Afternoon

• Presentation of Ashok Sukumaran
  • http://www.camputer.org
  • http://recurrencies.net/test/
  • http://oxdb.org
  • http://a.aaaarg.org/
  • http://la.thepublicschool.org/
  • http://edgwareroad.org

Workshop Week 2 (30/11 - 05/12) :

Monday 30

Group presentations of the work done in previous days

Field trips

Tuesday 1

groups presentations

field trips

Wednesday 2

Presentation of what has been done

• Water treatment factory
• Center for Internet & Society : appointment with Sunil Abraham at 3pm (with Namrata)

Thursday 3

"Favorite Place" portraits with Loreto Martinez Troncoso and Hélène Chaudeau

field trips

uploading contents on the map

Friday 4

"Favorite Place" protraits with Loreto Martinez Troncoso and Hélène Chaudeau

uploading contents on the map

Saturday 5

5.30 pm : Presentation at Alliance Française Bangalore

Online Tools :

• embedded videos : http://www.blip.tv
• blog : http://www.bengaluru.blogs.labomedia.org

Web links :

References websites

• http://srishti.ac.in/
• http://cema.srishti.ac.in/
• http://cema.srishti.ac.in/content/node/490
• http://bangalore.metamap.fr
• http://semaphore.blogs.com
• http://www.labomedia.net
• http://www.laboratoryplanet.org

Ressources

Web

• http://www.nearfield.org/2007/05/a-graphic-language-for-rfid
• http://vimeo.com/1166968
• http://www.nearfield.org/2009/10/immaterials-the-ghost-in-the-field
• http://www.internetactu.net/2009/10/22/rendre-les-ondes-radio-tangibles/

• http://taxionomy.net/taxionomy_mumbai/mumbai.html

Radio LIGNA:

• http://www.kuda.org/?q=en/node/444
• http://arttorrents.blogspot.com/2007/08/ligna-radio-ballet-2003.html
• http://www.webkreativ.de/momenta/lignainterview1.htm
• http://bettina-wind.blogspot.com/

Ici-même (Grenoble)

• http://www.icimeme.org/actualite.html

Routes+routines:

• http://routes-routines.constantvzw.org/
• http://www.videomagazijn.org/routes/index.html

Books

• "l'infra-ordinaire" by Georges Perec, "Interroger l'habituel" http://escarbille.free.fr/vme/vme.php?ind=txt
• "Walk Ways" : http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Ways-Tom-Marioni/dp/0916365654
• "Marcher, créer" : http://www.sitaudis.fr/Parutions/marcher-creer-par-thierry-davila.php
• "Did Someone Say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice" : http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10949

• http://ressources.levillagenumerique.org/index.php/G%C3%A9olocalisation

Connexions

In Bangalore

• http://www.cis-india.org/
• http://www.altlawforum.org/
• http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Jaaga:_Bangalore_Art_%26_Technology_Space
• http://jaaga.wikidot.com/
• http://foss.in/
• http://www.mahiti.org/

In Mumbai

• http://www.camputer.org/
• http://recurrencies.net/test/
• http://chitrakarkhana.net/
• http://urbz.net/
• http://www.urbanology.org/
• http://dharavi.org/