Postscript Part 1 We discussed a number of criteria by which to evaluate multimodal research and map critiques. Here I would like to briefly discuss the
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Walking the Data Set: Spatial Reading of Graffiti Removal
I took the City’s graffiti locations data set for a walk last Sunday in Brooklyn using the graffiti web app. As discussed in my last
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Visualizations of Graffiti Location Data Set
The video animates the reading and writing processes that government agencies and contractors perform. Each dot in the animation represents a record within the graffiti
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MapMap Vauxhall: Mind Warping Maps
MapMap Vauxhall by Benedickt Groß transforms OpenStreetMaps to match hand drawn mental maps of a neighborhood. Where the NYPL’s Map Warper conforms historical maps to
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The Simmering Pot: From Data Source to Data Sauce
In my last post, I tried to situate my exploration of a data set within media archaeology by foregrounding the gaps contained within the data
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Rummaging a Data Set: Identifying the Gaps
“Media archaeology rummages textual, visual, and auditory archives,” says Erik Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, “as well as collections of artifacts, emphasizing both the discursive and
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graff/it/i new york city web app
I believe that a key part of making a spatial argument is to situate it in the very geospatial context of the reader. I want
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Spatial Stories in a Frontier Landscape: The Growth of Newspapers Across the United States
“It is the map that precedes the territory,” says Jean Baudrillard. There are few greater examples of this adage in practice than historical maps of
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Cartograffic Rewrites – Mapping the Mechanism of Graffiti Removal
Graffiti in New York City plays the part in a well defined administrative feedback loop. After the street art is illegally applied to an
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IBM’s THINK Exhibit
This might be a big advertisement for how IBM has shaped the city, but it should prove a pretty interesting representation of how a company
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