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Relative Geoloc. Positioning

The Relative Geoloc. Positioning is a creation we programmed for the Laboral Centro de Arte in 2006. The idea is simple, we catch the coordinates of a place and catch some random places all over the world to show the relative distance from the original point. This great piece of programming has been done by Iñaki Quesada. Have a look at this small video bellow…

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Sit-in Rings on Google Earth ?

Thanks to the collaboration with google company dpt. in Madrid, we will launch a new digital dream in 2011. Based on the “sit-in” spirit from the 70th, you will be able to create some sit-in rings on Google Earth. We are the children of May 68. Lets occupy the digital maps on earth and make some “sit-in” in the strategic places where we should focus our attention.

This screenshot of f the prototype is showing the first sit-in ring we made in Spain in the Google Laboratories, focusing on the contamination of the mouth of the Mississippi river. We invited five experts in marine biodiversity
to participate to the sit-in ring. A earthworm memory base has been sowed at the relative geodesic coordinates.

Well, this is still a fiction ;-) !

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Earthworm chatroom network

A hole is simply a frontiere, a transition between one thing and another. Each days, millions of holes open space-time travels, bridges to new dimensions in which we can experiment our existence in new ways. From all the posibilities the hole offers to us like phenomenon, we only accept to pass the frontieres without efforts, the ones we can cross without hanging and mostly without jumping in a intelectual meaning.

we are part of a spiritual acrobats generation ready to project ourselves in every void with the intention to explore it, occupy it and looking for everything from it. We believe the hole is the salvation, it is the door from which we want to continue in this world speaking with others in a new manner. We locate ourselves with the feets on the bord of whatever of it’s faces and our thinkings are the act to jump. Earthworm is a way for chatters to creates virtual holes between spaces and time in various dimensions, flowing between the hole of a needle and the hole of a tunnel generating new ways in space and time, new contextual places to let and share information.

Earthworm project is a contextual multiusers chat network based on the posibility to select or submit a picture with a hole to create a context in a chatroom. It is a single chat window where various users can discuss and generate a audio version of their text. Earthworm implements a jpg grafic in the backstage of the chat tool. The idea is that up the hole there is a intercative area where if you clic on it you will load the hypernavigation made of all the active holes or chats network. The target is to propose to people to contextualise their online discussion targeting a subject through the use of specific pictures and then invite to share and exchange informations about specific environments. It is a poetic aproach of the dimension of digital network making links between various dimensions and places generating virtualy connections between remote places on earth. When users clic on the hole the arrive to the hypernavigation network.It is a map composed by all the active chatrooms using the earthworm interface. Users can select another chat place and jump. Users can act like earthworms generating new shared contexts uploading or using the database collection. Each pictures uploaded are recorded and for free use by other users.The condition to upload is to respect a strucutre of the picture uploaded with a specific size and resolutionand the presence of a hole in the center of the picture. Our interface will distribute automaticaly up the picture. In case it doesn’t look good users will have the posibility to erase and upload their pictures as much as they want.

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My network in my fingerprint

i heard a really interesting conference from Michel Serre about the relation between “identity” and “appurtenance” (“appartenance” in french) and he express the great idea to convert the common fingerprint in a digital map of appurtenance. I could use my fingerprint to zoom inside and insert my facebook nodes and other networks like linkedin, and extend to other parameters as the books i a reading all along my life in a specific microscopic furrow. Based to this proposal, we could create a user interface for people to scan, vectorize and program their fingerprints as a unique digital interactive map they could carry with them. It would be like renovating the fingerprint of our old national identity card and give them a new sense.

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MINOS, knowledge strings for your mobile and your computer.

Minos

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Electro Aimants

Electro-Aimants is a software showing the flux of e.mail exchange between one user and his network. Based on the metaphore of magnets and their magnetic fields, more intense is a comunication with a user, closer is the contact from the user magnet. This visualization let people see how closed they are from their contacts.

Electro-Aimants is organizing your contacts through the groups created in the agenda, a interesting tool let you create a string of contacts and create a mailing list graphically. If you are sharing information with another user, you can login to the magnet with another ID and discover your friend’s network.

A “Stats” screen let you see your relation with your network in a single view.

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What is “Cloud Thinking” ?

Generally, all the posts uploaded by people on their blogs are dead in the past just after pressing “publish” because they don’t really think about the coordinates of their thoughts and don’t situate them adequately. Our words die in the coordinates of the false present. We should define better the coordinates of our thoughts. I propose to practice now the “Cloud Thinking” in various spaces and times, situating our words in a deepest way. The thought is based on two inner coordinates that are “the place I’m thinking when i formulate the thought” (looking for the moon from the small fishing harbor) and the time i am thinking for this thought (11.09.1979). The 2 coordinates are the coordinates of my thoughts on the web. Why not searching in a web engine for posts from 1979 and create storms of thoughts in space and time ? I hope you will build too your own clouds and meet you tomorrow in another place and time perhaps in 2054 in Kyoto, but this is another story…

The tools to create some new “Cloud Thinking” nodes.

The best tool to create a new “Cloud Thinking” node is the mobile phone. Yes, the mobile phones give us the GPS coordinates and give us the power to be connected online and in the street at the same time. But these coordinates are the basic ones, the coordinates of the machines. But our real coordinates are really more subtle. As human being we can travel through space and time, locating our “being” in another centuries and places. Looking for the moon tonight, i can be with Galileo in 1602.

A web engine for the “Cloud Thinking” nodes.

This web engine is a serie of concentric spheres, like a onion skin all around the planet earth. Each level of this skin is a date. Each days, a new skin is growing from the surface of earth to the exosphere, pushing the other skins in the cosmos. We can travel through the nodes crossing the layers and coordinates. Well, this looks like a digital 3D Encyclopedia of the Humanity, a sort of Wikipedia of history and geography. It is true, the knowledge nodes are there, millions of capsules of information, forming the basic grid of the digital structure of the engine. This engine is Geocentric, that’s the starting point to the discover of the digital cosmos.