Project 1: Situated Media
Choose a specific site that is meaningful to you in some way. Using an augmented reality platform such as the audio tour platform Geotourist, add 2-3 POI (points of interest) (or more if you are so inclined) that will trigger audio on the participant’s mobile device. This media should ‘augment’ a visitor’s experience of the site, reveal something hidden or counter a dominant narrative (counter mapping) or something assumed about the site.
This app is geared toward audio, but you can also include still images, so be creative about what content/experience you are engineering to counter or augment the site. Images don’t need to be photographs, they can be a diagram or text, for example.
Basic option:
Use Geotourist.
Alternate option:
Use another AR platform that suits your needs and ability level, for example the Unity game engine with Vuforia SDK, or something that will allow for you to place media using geolocation.
Documentation for class:
Be prepared to show your map of where the point are located, play the audio and show any images you have included. Bonus: Show images of someone interacting with the site.
Project 2: Same Site, Different Maps
We will collectively choose a neighborhood to map. Visit the site as part of your research/exploration. What you map and how you choose to represent what you map is up to you. Ultimately, each person will map something different about the site.
Project 3: Mapping With Geospatial Data (intro)
Exercise: …
1) with data you assemble yourself in a spreadsheet. Make sure you include location data: either latitude and longitude or addresses which Google can then geocode.
2) with a filtered data set that you find, potentially from one of these repositories:
The exercise is based on the Google Maps Mapping Made Easy section of the tutorials here:
GIS On the Web tutorial on Lynda.com
(free with NYC library card, log in through the NYPL website here (click on “connect to database”):
https://www.nypl.org/collections/articles-databases/lyndacom
NYC Open Data – planning dept open data page
NYC Open Data Initiative
Open Street Map
(there are tutorials for extracting data from OSM)
USGS (US Geological Survey)
Final Project Proposal:
Deliver 1-2 pages with information on what, how, why. Include a pie-in-the-sky ideal version that you would make with unlimited time and resources and a version appropriately scaled down to make for the end of the semester. Email, hand me a piece of paper or upload to your drive.
The project should engage space and/or place in a way that speaks to topics we have touched upon throughout the semester, be appropriately ambitious for a final project in graduate school and be representative of “your work” as an artist/media maker.