C5 Landscape Projects Field Mediation
Dates:
Thu Jan 09, 2003 00:00 - Thu Jan 09, 2003
The C5 Landscape Projects Field Mediation January 12th, 2003
UTM
10 S 0589631
4145735
DMS
N 37 deg., 27' 24.1"
W 121 deg., 59' 33.5"
In 2001, C5 initiated a series of projects involving mapping, navigation and search of the landscape using GIS (Global Information Systems). The projects are designed to take place over the next 3 years and are an extension of C5's research of database visualization, networks and cooperative systems. The Landscape Projects examine the changing conception of the Landscape as we move from the aesthetics of representation to those of database and interface.
On January 12th 2003, C5 conducts the first in a series of on-site field mediations for presentation of research and theoretical agendas informing the Landscape Projects.
Over the past decade the instrumentation necessary for creating a detailed mapping of the earth's surface from space has become a reality. The USGS (United States Geological Survey) together with NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a host of international governmental and non-governmental partners are moving towards a complete indexing of the earth's surface destined to better than one meter of resolution. Location, navigation, tracking, mapping and timing within the landscape points to a re-conceptualization of the environment and our interaction with it. Like the human genome, the scope and implication this endeavor points to tremendous social, political and economic considerations. Technology transfer from GIS research activities incorporates new data products such as those in environmental studies including strategic management of resources and hazards and disaster analysis. New discourses and disciplines have emerged around topics such as interactive mapping and archeological geophysics. Combined with Spatial Data Systems and GPS (Global Positioning System) postures an entirely new relationship with the Landscape that takes form in applications for simulation, surveillance, resource allocation and management of cooperative networks. It is in this context that the C5 Landscape Projects are conceived.
The first in the project series, Analogous Landscapes, was exhibited at the 2002 II International Art Biennial-Buenos Aires Museo Nacional de Bellas.
Joel Slayton, Brett Stalbaum, Geri Wittig, Steve Durie, Jan Ekenberg, Jack Toolin, Lisa Jevbratt, Anne-Marie Schleiner, Bruce Gardner
UTM
10 S 0589631
4145735
DMS
N 37 deg., 27' 24.1"
W 121 deg., 59' 33.5"
In 2001, C5 initiated a series of projects involving mapping, navigation and search of the landscape using GIS (Global Information Systems). The projects are designed to take place over the next 3 years and are an extension of C5's research of database visualization, networks and cooperative systems. The Landscape Projects examine the changing conception of the Landscape as we move from the aesthetics of representation to those of database and interface.
On January 12th 2003, C5 conducts the first in a series of on-site field mediations for presentation of research and theoretical agendas informing the Landscape Projects.
Over the past decade the instrumentation necessary for creating a detailed mapping of the earth's surface from space has become a reality. The USGS (United States Geological Survey) together with NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a host of international governmental and non-governmental partners are moving towards a complete indexing of the earth's surface destined to better than one meter of resolution. Location, navigation, tracking, mapping and timing within the landscape points to a re-conceptualization of the environment and our interaction with it. Like the human genome, the scope and implication this endeavor points to tremendous social, political and economic considerations. Technology transfer from GIS research activities incorporates new data products such as those in environmental studies including strategic management of resources and hazards and disaster analysis. New discourses and disciplines have emerged around topics such as interactive mapping and archeological geophysics. Combined with Spatial Data Systems and GPS (Global Positioning System) postures an entirely new relationship with the Landscape that takes form in applications for simulation, surveillance, resource allocation and management of cooperative networks. It is in this context that the C5 Landscape Projects are conceived.
The first in the project series, Analogous Landscapes, was exhibited at the 2002 II International Art Biennial-Buenos Aires Museo Nacional de Bellas.
Joel Slayton, Brett Stalbaum, Geri Wittig, Steve Durie, Jan Ekenberg, Jack Toolin, Lisa Jevbratt, Anne-Marie Schleiner, Bruce Gardner
Leonardo Book Series Announcement
The Leonardo Book Series and MIT Press are pleased to announce the release of two new books, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia by Geert Lovink and Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion by Oliver Grau.
Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia by Geert Lovink
For Geert Lovink, interviews are imaginative texts that can help to create global, networked discourses not only among different professions but also among different cultures and social groups. Conducting interviews online, over a period of weeks or months, allows the participants to compose documents of depth and breadth, rather than simply snapshots of timely references.
The interviews collected in this book are with artists, critics, and theorists who are intimately involved in building the content, interfaces, and architectures of new media. The topics discussed include digital aesthetics, sound art, navigating deep audio space, European media philosophy, the Internet in Eastern Europe, the mixing of old and new in India, critical media studies in the Asia-Pacific region, Japanese techno tribes, hybrid identities, the storage of social movements, theory of the virtual class, virtual and urban spaces, corporate takeover of the Internet, and the role of cyberspace in the rise of nongovernmental organizations.
Interviewees included Norbert Bolz, Paulina Borsook, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Calin Dan, Mike Davis, Mark Dery, Kodwo Eshun, Susan George, Boris Groys, Frank Hartmann, Michael Heim, Dietmar Kamper, Zina Kaye, Tom Keenan, Arthur Kroker, Bruno Latour, Marita Liulia, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Peter Lunenfeld, Lev Manovich, Mongrel, Edi Muka, Jonathan Peizer, Saskia Sassen, Herbert Schiller, Gayatri Spivak, Janos Sugar, Ravi Sundaram, Toshiya Ueno, Tjebbe van Tijen, McKenzie Wark, Hartmut Winkler, and Slavoj Zizek.
To order: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sidA562AB2-43F2-404B-A0FC-C738AA883609&ttype=2&tid
Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia by Geert Lovink
For Geert Lovink, interviews are imaginative texts that can help to create global, networked discourses not only among different professions but also among different cultures and social groups. Conducting interviews online, over a period of weeks or months, allows the participants to compose documents of depth and breadth, rather than simply snapshots of timely references.
The interviews collected in this book are with artists, critics, and theorists who are intimately involved in building the content, interfaces, and architectures of new media. The topics discussed include digital aesthetics, sound art, navigating deep audio space, European media philosophy, the Internet in Eastern Europe, the mixing of old and new in India, critical media studies in the Asia-Pacific region, Japanese techno tribes, hybrid identities, the storage of social movements, theory of the virtual class, virtual and urban spaces, corporate takeover of the Internet, and the role of cyberspace in the rise of nongovernmental organizations.
Interviewees included Norbert Bolz, Paulina Borsook, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Calin Dan, Mike Davis, Mark Dery, Kodwo Eshun, Susan George, Boris Groys, Frank Hartmann, Michael Heim, Dietmar Kamper, Zina Kaye, Tom Keenan, Arthur Kroker, Bruno Latour, Marita Liulia, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Peter Lunenfeld, Lev Manovich, Mongrel, Edi Muka, Jonathan Peizer, Saskia Sassen, Herbert Schiller, Gayatri Spivak, Janos Sugar, Ravi Sundaram, Toshiya Ueno, Tjebbe van Tijen, McKenzie Wark, Hartmut Winkler, and Slavoj Zizek.
To order: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sidA562AB2-43F2-404B-A0FC-C738AA883609&ttype=2&tid