Invisible cities: Twitter ‘mapped’ in de echte wereld
Transrealiteit is het versmelten van de fysieke wereld met de virtuele wereld. Het is een snel opkomende trends. Invisible cities visualiseert in mijn ogen deze trend.
De beschrijving die men er zelf aan geeft is: By revealing the social networks present within the urban environment, Invisible Cities describes a new kind of city—a city of the mind. It displays geocoded activity from online services such as Twitter and Flickr, both in real-time and in aggregate. Invisible Cities maps information from one realm—online social networks—to another: an immersive, three dimensional space. In doing so, the piece creates a parallel experience to the physical urban environment. The interplay between the aggregate and the real-time recreates the kind of dynamics present within the physical world, where the city is both a vessel for and a product of human activity. It is ultimately a parallel city of intersections, discovery, and memory, and a medium for experiencing the physical environment anew.
Invisible Cities from Christian Marc Schmidt on Vimeo.
