WEEK
8 --
THE CITY AS DATABASE
"Memory, the way we see it today, is a storage of codes that allow you to reconstruct information... But rather than making the storage of something in what one would call hard copy, or lifelike copy, you actually do the storage in a coded form... [that] is going to be reconstructed when you need to reactivate that information."
-- A. Damasio in: "The Memory as Living Archive", Information is Alive (2003)
READ: "Fusing
Interfaces: The library museum and amusement arcades"
by Tjebbe van Tijen, 1994
// Art projects of the week:
parole by gruppo A12, Udo Noll, Peter Scupelli parole
is a dynamic dictionary of the contemporary city. http://parole.aporee.org/
Apartment by Marek Walczak & Martin Wattenberg http://turbulence.org/Works/apartment
Viewers are confronted with a blinking cursor. As they type, rooms begin to
take shape in the form of a two-dimensional plan, similar to a blueprint.
The architecture is based on a semantic analysis of the viewer's words, reorganizing
them to reflect the underlying themes they express. The apartments are then
clustered into buildings and cities according to their linguistic relationships.
100.000
Streets by Geert Mul Would you like to know what a mix of New
York, Tokyo and Rotterdam would look like as a city? With his 100 000 STREETS
image artist Geert Mul explores the visual overlap of cities all over the
world. Visitors to this interactive installation are treated to a tour of
a kaleidoscopic fan of urban images that are retrieved from the Internet and
selected on visual quality by especially designed, visually intelligent software.
Substract
the Sky by Sharon Daniel
WEDNESDAY:
ARRAYS
- how to define lists of data
- creating and adding to arrays
- key/value pairs
- accessing data in arrays
- arrays of arrays
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