Landscape-Portrait OKF

I submitted an outline of Landscape-Portrait to OKF, my thought was to see if there was any interest in taking the data produced so far and making it available via Open Data protocols. This has always been the objective, and hopefully with some help this will be achievable. One thing, my making it open the stories that the site contains are made public, to used in any manner, I need to think about this, and how participants of the work might feel about it.

Open Knowledge Foundation

Really enjoying looking through the projects of the OKF, these two in particular really appeal to me and are inspiring many possibilities.

• http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/blueplaque/
• http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/tombstone/

Open Street Map

I was following a link from the Open Knowledge Foundation which linked to http://www.openstreetmap.org/ - A Wiki based map that allows account holders to author content on the map. I was thinking initially that this would be personal generated content, such as drawings etc, I had in mind this database of geo tagged line drawings, mmmm, but this was not the case, more gps route markings and transfer of different data sets. Still and interesting project when thinking of a base up on which to locate a work. What really works for me is the diary section, where the thinking and reasoning behind the mapping is contextualised, here's an extract: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/aekkarine/diary/13091

file types

I've been thinking about these new file types that are being released, massive database files that contain a range of media, data content. The manner of their production and the means of their distribution interest me greatly, that they might contain dynamic & static data, raster and vector operate as a meta file, database etc. My thought might be to develop a file type. '.kev' files for example, this file type might provide for a complete public art meta file dealing with some of the issues highlighted by the ReallyGoodBad public art project. Need to find more about file formats and how they gain interoperability.

Public Art DB

Just came across this old posting - kinda relevant:

http://blog.okfn.org/2011/02/01/art-open-data/

Dirty vehicle writing

I was sitting behind a van the other day, from memory it has some lame message written in the dirt on the back "This model also available in white" the van was white..... but the word 'model' got me thinking, more examples of low quality can be here. But there is perhaps a possibility here to create an interesting temporary public art work ?

See the work of Ben Long here:























Richard Prince set to one side - i am thinking country and western lyrics, pertinent websites links and plain old provocation.

mmmm

Geo-Spatial and stolen goods

Continuing this idea of establishing narrative communities around desirable objects i came across the work on Savage, as artist based in Bristol. His work 'Stolen White Goods' performs little interventions with the space of the consumer transaction. He cites this book 'Lifting' and there is an interesting essay on his work here.

geo data communities

Just noticing the hype around the goverments publishing of publicly accessible website which features geo specific crime data. The generic nature of the data, the level of abstraction it all kinda make you wonder what its for ? is it really just for people to work out if they should move to an area or not, and how much there house prices might be effected. See here for a good rant about metrics and the important stuff.

More interesting to me is the manner of crime engagement that Dutch police have used, by actually using bait bikes that have tracking sensors in them.

This correlates with an idea I had to compile a list of ten top stolen consumer item. I would aqure these ten items, tag them and allow them to be stolen, the resulting narrative would be recorded using the breadth of social media, communities might be formed around the objects unraveling narratives. This idea is further extended by the thought that there a quite a few desirable objects that have geo spatial facilities built in, i-phones, sat-nav's, computers etc, the fact that the i-phone is the most nickable and desirable phone and those that nick them, as happened to my collegue, might potentially own them seems pertinent.

Now to think to make an app, install it and see what going on with it -