Experimental Mapping Project Uses Language and Streets

Wednesday 22 March | 18.00 - 19.30 hrs

Lecture: JODI '-A- Project'

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 at http://www.pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/

The lecture is presented by Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute,

Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam.

http://www.pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/