Subjective Cartography

Straight 8

ewen — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:04:28 +0000

Straight 8, A short Experimental Film By Ayisha Abraham

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Bangalore in the 40’s

ewen — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:59:53 +0000

Thanks to Ayisha Abraham

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boating on Ulsoor Lake

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Water- Use and Re-Use update

gourav — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:11:36 +0000

Due to unavailability of any kind of visuals from the treatment site (as it was restricted by the govt.) there is no available resource which could define the functioning and the conditions of the treatment plant. So I am working on an animation which will help the viewers to understand it better. I hope to get the animation done by tonight so that we could share it tomorrow morning in the classroom.

Water- Use & Re-Use

gourav — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:04:59 +0000

This is a project about the daily cycle of the water that we use and reuse after the same water is purified each time. We never think about where does the water go after we have used it and where do we get water for our daily use

YELAHANKA WATER SUPPLY SERVICE STATION

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Ruhaniyat: An All India Sufi and Mystic Music Festival

ewen — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:53:12 +0000

Sawan Khan & Group on sunday 29/11/09 at the Jayamahal Palace Hotel

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Shared Spectrum

ewen — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:47:39 +0000

Sunil Abraham talks about mobile phone spectrum congestion, psectrum auctions, and concept of “shared spectrum”.

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Ethno Mapping

meghma — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:11:50 +0000

Project By: Meghma and Sayantani

The project started mainly due to this course called Thinking Archives. We had to explore the possibilities and intricacies and various meanings of what archives could be. Also a part of the course was participation in an ongoing project already underway at Srishti, of building the Srishti Historical Archives. It had a lot to do with archiving work done in Srishti as well as work done by faculty and students. A lot of the work was based in and around and about Bangalore, archiving the art documenting the city and its aspects. Another part of the course was a workshop on Cartography, working with metamaps and ultimately producing individual works mapping the various aspects of the city of Bangalore. Our project is one of the final works produced as the final product of the course. We call it Ethno Mapping.

The city is ever changing. And we wanted to look at the change through a specific perspective. We singled out a specific area: Avenue Road, one of the oldest parts of the city, and decided to map it using photographs that define the place through more than pictures of tarmac and road signs, but human elements, that characterises the place in particular as well as the city. We also look at this area through the perspective of an artist, Ms. Prabha, who comes from a traditional family of goldsmiths, a community who still inhabit a part of that stretch of the city and still work there, through her works, which is attempting to combine old goldsmith techniques with modern installation art practices.

Presenting the Center for Internet and Society

ewen — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:58:04 +0000

Sunil Abraham talks about Mahiti and the creation of the Center for Internet and Society

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Brand Noise

sunayana — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:08:16 +0000

project by : Ankhita, Malovika and Sunayana

The main objective of this workshop was mapping. We came up with individual ideas : malovika’s idea was to map the effect of brands on people using a questionnaire and according to the answers she decided to make an interactive quilt by incorporating LED lights in it, Ankhita’s project idea was about brand concentration in Bangalore and making a patchwork quilt using the map of bangalore, where as my idea was about mapping the primary colours using a sensor and converting the data into sound. Finally we decided to club all the three ideas into one and work as a group. Our final project proposal was about brands and their correlation with electro-magnetic waves. We are trying to map the concentration of brands in two most commercial places in Bangalore – Commercial Street and MG road; we are also mapping the electro-magnetic pollution caused by these brands which is generated by the illuminated sign boards and the use of electricity.

We started by going to these two places and photographing the brands existing in these places. To record the sound of the electromagnetic waves we created a sensor using copper wire which detects the waves, after this we went to commercial street and brigade road to record the electro-magnetic sounds using the device we made. We Were able to record some interesting sounds particularly from the generators, CFL lights, ATM machine and open wires. We also created brand patchwork maps and collage on a software called patchwork maker which would be finally transfered on to t-shirts.

some links that we refered to for inspiration:

http://www.ambientperformance.com/connection/archives/sl-brand-map-v12-thumb.jpg
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/4899/map-quilts-by-leah-evans.html
http://worldquilter.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/map-quilts-planning-and-execution/
http://www.google.co.in/imgres?imgurl=http://www.inhabitat.com/images/pillows.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.inhabitat.com/2005/09/07/&h=272&w=537&sz=31&tbnid=KVzc-koPCae3DM:&tbnh=67&tbnw=132&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dled%2Bfabric&hl=en&usg=__OFjdm00qQb-z-zqBWfg4yAQDnjA=&ei=E-wMS5y6F9WZkQXI0LyNBA&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=5&ct=image&ved=0CBoQ9QEwBA
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardLilyPad

This device was created very simply by just winding copper wire around a circular object to make a a large loop which is then attached to a chord . This chord can then be plugged into a sound recorder or a camera to record the sound of the waves. The copper wire detects the vibration which is converted to sound by the sound recorder

Finding Direction.

namrata — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:01:30 +0000

i pride myself on having good direction sense. Somewhere in my head routes i travel by become intuitive, and i often loose myself in thought while navigating to places that are routine to me. In a sense my movement becomes a rehearsed performance, and in another sense im sure this happens to everyone. But how do other people perform and move through the same spaces that i move through. what are their cues, their indications, their landmarks, their waypoints, and their means of marking?

using a sound recorder and a GPS locative device, i intend, to loose and find my way in a space, where all i have as indicators are other peoples directions.

for the purpose of the exhibition i would like to tag intersections/interactions (by sound/or drawing) on a map that are referred to as i walk and ask for directions, in an attempt to create a subjective map of the area that i am in.

as a preliminary test, i took a route i take every day – from college to home, by asking for directions. One of my initial ideas was to ask people to draw me route maps. today i want to drop myself off at a location i am entirely unfamiliar with and listen to how i should get back.

some readings ive done on navigation and location awareness devices.

- http://tecfa.unige.ch/~nova/headmap-manifesto.PDF

-http://www.annetteweintraub.com/

-http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Maguire/