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Urban Mirror

Type Web Page
Author Urban Mirror
URL http://www.urbanmirror.org/content/
Date 2010
Accessed 2010-11-05 13:00:34
Abstract WHAT
Urban Mirror is a project about art and public space, a window into Kenya's urban art scene: audio, visual, performance, literature ….

WHY
We believe that artists are a mirror for the community and we want to give them a voice

HOW
mapping all known and lesser known artists in Kenya
mapping all the public art ideas in Kenya
mapping all the art centres and art events in Kenya
mapping all the public spaces in Kenya
connecting art with public space
creating a community among all the artists in Kenya
giving artists a temporary platform to showcase their work – the Urban Mirror Show

WHO
Urban Mirror is a Community Based Organization started by the hip hop music group Ukoo Flani and the multimedia NGO Cultural Video Foundation. The main purpose of the Organisation is to use art to promote community development.

Website Title Urban Mirror

Urban Mirror

Type Web Page
Author Urban Mirror
URL http://www.urbanmirror.org/content/
Date 2010
Accessed 2010-11-05 13:00:34
Abstract WHAT
Urban Mirror is a project about art and public space, a window into Kenya's urban art scene: audio, visual, performance, literature ….

WHY
We believe that artists are a mirror for the community and we want to give them a voice

HOW
mapping all known and lesser known artists in Kenya
mapping all the public art ideas in Kenya
mapping all the art centres and art events in Kenya
mapping all the public spaces in Kenya
connecting art with public space
creating a community among all the artists in Kenya
giving artists a temporary platform to showcase their work – the Urban Mirror Show

WHO
Urban Mirror is a Community Based Organization started by the hip hop music group Ukoo Flani and the multimedia NGO Cultural Video Foundation. The main purpose of the Organisation is to use art to promote community development.

Website Title Urban Mirror

Grassroots Mapping

Type Web Page
Author Grassroots Mapping
URL http://grassrootsmapping.org/
Date 2010
Accessed 2010-11-05 12:57:46
Language English
Abstract Grassroots Mapping is a series of participatory mapping projects involving communities in cartographic dispute, started by Jeffrey Warren of the MIT Media Lab‘s Center for Future Civic Media.

This January 2010, Jeff Warren worked with a series of organizations and communities to produce maps with children and adults from several communities in Lima, including the Cantagallo settlement of Shipibo on the bank of the Rimac and the Juan Pablo II community in Villa El Salvador.

Seeking to invert the traditional power structure of cartography, the grassroots mappers used helium balloons and kites to loft their own "community satellites" made with inexpensive digital cameras. The resulting images, which are owned by the residents, are georeferenced and stitched into maps which are 100x higher resolution that those offered by Google, at extremely low cost. In some cases these maps may be used to support residents' claims to land title. By creating open-source tools to include everyday people in exploring and defining their own geography, we hopes to enable a diverse set of alternative agendas and practices, and to emphasize the fundamentally narrative and subjective aspects of mapping over its use as a medium of control.

Website Title Grassroots Mapping

Grassroots Mapping

Type Web Page
Author Grassroots Mapping
URL http://grassrootsmapping.org/
Date 2010
Accessed 2010-11-05 12:57:46
Language English
Abstract Grassroots Mapping is a series of participatory mapping projects involving communities in cartographic dispute, started by Jeffrey Warren of the MIT Media Lab‘s Center for Future Civic Media.

This January 2010, Jeff Warren worked with a series of organizations and communities to produce maps with children and adults from several communities in Lima, including the Cantagallo settlement of Shipibo on the bank of the Rimac and the Juan Pablo II community in Villa El Salvador.

Seeking to invert the traditional power structure of cartography, the grassroots mappers used helium balloons and kites to loft their own "community satellites" made with inexpensive digital cameras. The resulting images, which are owned by the residents, are georeferenced and stitched into maps which are 100x higher resolution that those offered by Google, at extremely low cost. In some cases these maps may be used to support residents' claims to land title. By creating open-source tools to include everyday people in exploring and defining their own geography, we hopes to enable a diverse set of alternative agendas and practices, and to emphasize the fundamentally narrative and subjective aspects of mapping over its use as a medium of control.

Website Title Grassroots Mapping

Solidarity Maps

Type Web Page
Author Solidarity Maps
URL http://kharita.wordpress.com/
Date 2009
Accessed 2010-11-05 12:55:14
Abstract Kharita is a collaborative initiative of Lebanese, Palestinian and other activists.
We produce and share advocacy maps on Middle East conflicts, particularly on Palestinian cause.
Website Title Solidarity Maps

Solidarity Maps

Type Web Page
Author Solidarity Maps
URL http://kharita.wordpress.com/
Date 2009
Accessed 2010-11-05 12:55:14
Abstract Kharita is a collaborative initiative of Lebanese, Palestinian and other activists.
We produce and share advocacy maps on Middle East conflicts, particularly on Palestinian cause.
Website Title Solidarity Maps

City Centered Festival

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URL http://citycentered.org/
Accessed 2010-11-05 13:54:27
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City Centered Festival

Type Web Page
Author City Centered Festival
URL http://citycentered.org/
Date 2010
Accessed 2010-11-05 13:54:25
Language English
Abstract City Centered is a free, three-day festival of locative media and urban community in San Francisco. The event includes demonstrations and installations in the Tenderloin district, a symposium in the Mission district and community training workshops.

Over two weekends, it will engage artists, educators, civic organizations and community members of all ages in exploring how how locative media can act as a platform and venue for community-led expression.

Website Title City Centered Festival

MassiveComprehensionMachine

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URL http://mcm.feenelcaos.org/index_en.html
Accessed 2010-11-05 13:51:30
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MassiveComprehensionMachine

Type Web Page
Author MassiveComprehensionMachine
URL http://mcm.feenelcaos.org/index_en.html
Accessed 2010-11-05 13:51:29
Abstract :: Massive Comprehension Machine
is an audiovisual device for simultaneous navigation in two semantic networks generated in real time facing a unique concept: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but addressed from two opposing views: the media that operates on one or other side of the border. Can semantic netwoks map thoughts? Can they disclose structures that reflect the way we see the world? This device allows the investigation between the subjectivity and imaginary of one and other, and also from the subjectivity of the visitor, dealing with the complexity of one of the greatest conflicts inherited from the 20th century.
Website Title MassiveComprehensionMachine

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