March 09, 2006
Public Lecture
JODI's -A- Project
Wednesday 22 March | 18.00 - 19.30 hrs; Location: Collegezaal, Overblaak 85, Rotterdam; Free, all welcome. JODI, Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans present work-in-progress on a new project for Rotterdam:
The Navigator(TM) writes a message on the map.(Walk-a-Letter) (Bike-a-Word) (Drive-a-Book) (Swim-a-Smiley :) The trajectories form sentences in time. (Blue follows Black) How long does it take for an anonymous scooter to drive a legible word? The map of Rotterdam can display a thousand storyboards. (This way#Red - Walk#Green) How to read/write this book while in motion. (Roadmovie-Between the Lines- Passagenwerk) A:"Drive slowly to your work-Turn Right". A long text to go on a mobile screen. (GPSaccounting-Time) Numbers in the White Pages® of public transport. (La Linea-Bookmark/ Landmark- Latitude:Longitude)
The irregular citygrid shapes a trembling %Local fontstyle. Through the urgent handwriting (follow my footsteps) a text appears. (Ink on wheels) WHOIS writing/driving the city and WHEREAMI in the story (Alphaville-Storyville-Dogville) Can Pattern recognition on these unreadable maps help me find directions? How to unscramble Haiku-maps? Am i on a journey in a message? An age long mess of roadworks, the Library of the street (Order-Dialect-Slang- Obscene- SMS) To read your line, call this website anytime. Find a secret trace in the shopping crowd. The irregular "structure" of streets (SOS), and its access resolution, determines how/where the writing layout takes place. (Map-layers vs alined page) Start-a-thread.
JODI (http://www.jodi.org/) are the current Research Fellow in Media Design Research. Once completed, -A- Project will be available for use online. The lecture is presented by Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam.
Posted by jo at March 9, 2006 11:37 AM
