Anthony Burke
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Re:beyond the visual? - 2006/04/27 10:23
As the quantitative point of view is replaced by a qualitative one, it seems possible to overlay an infinte number of personal, group and mixed layers to a traditional cartographic space GIS style. As I understand the intentions of Alisons work, the question is what conventions does/can technology offer for replacing the cartesian and other mapping conventions that act as common references. So while events may constitute new content, ie the thing to be mapped, one provocation of this thesis is the private public nature of the act of mapping itself. If we are all creating our own highly personalized spatial insciptions where does the agency of the map as common refernce give way to the excrutiatingly personalized taking it beyond any common reference or use? This threshold seems an interesting moment for the cartographer, and resonates with issues in Tapios work (also in the interacitve city forum) amongst others. Can we do away with conventions altogether? What conventions are the first to go and the last to stay?
Still within this converstation is a question i would like to come back to, that of the definition of the contmporary "interactive" city itself. Where is the interactive city? Ancel looks to the ubiquitos planetary scale, while the map tends to move in the other direction, and is an index of difference...
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