Play Think #1: GPS Instrument Links
From the first event the following comments were made with links:
Jessica
Attached is my suggested reading following on from yesterday’s Play Think: Italo_Calvino_Trading_Cities. Textile related – of course – but also feels like it captures what we were mapping yesterday. Before you delete – it is less than 200 words!!
Thinking about the storytelling/narrative that was needed to reveal the routes we mapped yesterday, I suggest that our next ‘tool’ is a visit to a recording studio or some sort of audio equipment. For what purpose, I’m not yet sure….
Harvey
A link to Jonnny Cash Walking the line for the dangerous inmates of St Quentin Prison. I guess it ties into ideas of freedom, surveillance and the relationship of ‘play’ through music and of course a great tune to walk the lines of yesterday.
http://videos.sport365.fr/video/iLyROoafIwUF.html
Arno
I’ve attached a chapter from Malcolm Mccullough (1998) Abstracting Craft:The Practiced Digital Hand. Chapter discusses tools and tool use.
Thought it relevant to how the digital device, though abstract, is still a tool. Also find it curious not only how we use tools, but how tools use us…ANT theory and all.
Jonny
Although I think that in some ways it’s a profoundly rotten film, Tom Ford’s A Single Man interested me due to its conceit of traversing your daily activities, routines and spaces with unusual self-consciousness (in the film, because of the certain knowledge that it’s the very last time one will ever do so) with emotional and sensorial experiences of the familiar changing as a result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aypyJtHzC70
The film’s take on bereavement, the main impact of which seems to be that it creates some much-needed space in the bedroom wardrobe for your extensive collection of beautifully hand-stitched dress shirts, seems to me less convincing. I’m trying to decide whether this means (a) I’ve spent years going out with the wrong people, or (b) I’ve been buying clothes in the wrong shops. None of this is to discount the possibility that (a) and (b) could in fact be inter-related.
Chris
Tim Ingold’s book: “Lines: a brief history” offers some insight into the thread, line, and linearity.
I couldn’t find specific texts from the book, but this slightly earlier PDF of a lecture at Edinburgh obviously foregrounds the book and its contents: TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE LINE: TRACES, THREADS AND SURFACES
I’m particularly interested in the serial flow of words, movements and marks that constitute lines. And in particular how these lines may or may not be perceived as linear, depending upon their cultural interpretation.
Play Think #1: GPS Instrument
13th April 2011, GPS Technology
I can’t recall the pairs so you’ll have to forgive me for citing only one member of each team, and apologies to the couple whose GPS didn’t record – every instrument fails at some point!
If you would like to comment on your walk, or add names just mail me
Jessica
Click here for a link to the KML file, this will launch the actual GPS trail in Google Earth.
Ed & Arno
Click here for the KML file
Harvey
Click here for the KML file
Jonny
Click here for the KML file
Piotr
Click here for the KML file
Chris
Click here for the KML files
I tried to walk a route across Athens in Greece, by following the directions given by Google from a College of Art to the University, and walking the path in Edinburgh.
