SubMap v1.1 from Kitchen Budapest on Vimeo.
Maps are normally based on a trustworthy and objective selection of public data. Thus, can a map visualizing personal information be considered as public? Let’s say we limit data to very basic and factual location-time coordinates of our movement in the city. Can a map built from private data be public?
During the exhibition at Galeria Centralis we continuously tracked our locations by using foursquare.com. Check-ins made in the application are translated into distorting forces applied to the map of Budapest. Those places which were closer to us became literally larger on the map. On the screen the slowly distorted map was shown in real-time, accompanied with the history of recent check-ins.
After the exhibition we compiled a time-lapse video from the saved maps as a summary of the entire period.
SubMap torsion in motion from Kitchen Budapest on Vimeo.
On the screen two maps are shown. Users can insert their favorite locations by placing markers in the Google Map on the left side. These are translated into distorting forces applied to the map of Budapest. The map on the right side is distorted real-time, according to the inputs provided on the other map. Thus, places which are physically closer to us become perspectively larger.
Exhibited:
Open studio day, Kitchen Budapest, 29/04/2010
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