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Invisible Maps is a map of the Barcelona’s invisible assets. Using QR codes, highlights events and places and interact with the land and its history through mobile technology.
Over time and years the city has changed a lot, each new layer hides the above. Citizen participation then takes a new value: the objective is to recover hidden memories in the minds of people, thousands of fragments that are rebuilt and located in the city leaving us better understand the urban environment that surrounds us.
Invisible Maps Barcelona presents a vision of focusing on this participation, highlighting events and places that have profoundly personal experiences. Thus, it creates a map of the city’s invisible assets. QR codes using the opportunity to interact with the land and its history through mobile technology.
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The exhibition consists of three pieces:
1. What is interaction for the world? And for you?
Frankly, this doesn’t seem as clear as all assume. In this projection you can say what you think and let your thoughts float in a sea of words, along with those other people equally or more confused than you. Come on, come on and tell us what your first thought is.
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2. Silence. Panels talking
Did you understand anything of what they say? I don’t. Believe it or not, these panels are having an innocent conversation between them, communicating in a secret and mysterious code that we cannot understand. And yes, they are happy with so many wires, buttons and lights on top that we are destined to not touch. We have nothing else to do than to leave them there, alone and without interrupting because, you know, it’s not polite to do so.
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3. Fixed Mobiles
We have always used mobile phones to communicate with us through them. But guess what? They are tired of listening and no longer need us. Hanging there as you see them, talk to them and tell their romantic woes, among others, and who knows, maybe a few secrets. What about us? Nothing. Ignored, we can only be witness.
Daniel González Venezuela
Jana Pejoska Macedonia
Maga Kwasniewska Poland
Paula Marques Brazil
Penny Greece
Sebastián Infante Chile
Simón Argentina
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Exhibition Open at Sala Marsà in Tárrega, Spain
From February 18 until March 6, 2011.
Created by The No-Interaction Group .
In January 2011 we started collaborating with Frog Design in Amsterdam. Frog is a global design firm founded in 1969 and currently has offices all over the globe (New York, Amsterdam, Shanghai…). They work across a broad spectrum of industries including consumer electronics, telecommunications, entertainment and fashion among others.
We are really looking forward to do some amazing stuff together!
Photo by Photochiel.
Since October 2010 we’ve been collaborating with our friends from Bestiario on their newest project called Impure.
Impure is a visual programming language that simplifies the process of visualizing information. It has a complete set of visualizations, controls, operators and data models with which you can use to make your own space for analyzing almost any kind of data. The information can be gathered from different sources, not only user data, but also from internet feeds like social media, financial data or real time processes. Impure is based on linking visual modules, like PureData or Max/MSP.
Since everything is online, you can use it by just signing up. Once you have created an account, you can start to create your own spaces, store and share them.
Impure has been presented in several data visualization world conferences and festivals to high praise and acclaim. Because it is very easy to use and very fast showing results playing with data, Impure is also a good tool for teaching data visualization. For more info, you can check the Impure Blog.
We would like to congratulate Bestiario and especially Santiago Ortiz, for this fantastic tool and for the countless hours of work behind it. We are very proud to be a part of this project.
Exhibition Opening at Sala Marsà in Tárrega, Spain
February 18, 2011, 20:30h
Created by The No-Interaction Group .