Calculating Empires
A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler
(2023)

mapscii.me

elevation maps

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Traverse Me is a map drawn by walking across campus with a GPS device

assembled screenshots and maps from videogames - especially old ones

"story #1, "The 21 Steps" by Charles Cumming, was told using Google Maps."

"allows users to tell a story by pinpointing locations, and showing a route on a map"

"On the map, white dots represent individual blogs, sized according to number of links."

obviously from an 8bit era videogame... this map looks COOL !

they say "2007", but it's, so far, rather a map of 2006 trends

Digital technology, mass media, globalization and commodity culture shape each artist's vision: they are adept at translating synthetic data into scenes of breathtaking beauty.

densely layered works that describe a futuristic environment capturing the sense of our time in history

"an aesthetic interface which shows news items as they are released, extracted from RSS feeds, highlighting the location of stories as they arise. recent news items (in yellow) can also be accessed." (via infosthetics)

A History of Treemap Research at the University of Maryland