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Launching: MapFutur.es — a map of Future Screenshots

MapFutur.es is an online map that gathers fragments of imagined futures: “future screenshots”—speculative visions shaped as tweets, chats, maps, protest signs, or headlines. They’re not predictions. They’re provocations. They ask: what might still be possible? What futures are already taking shape in how we grieve, resist, and imagine? The Futures Map is nonlinear. It’s organized … Continue reading Launching: MapFutur.es — a map of Future Screenshots

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A Subtle Zionist Occupation of Gaza through Google Maps

Questionable priorities of archeological facts on Google Maps, divisive cross-lingual links on Wikipedia… Are the ideological distortions of history on so-called balanced online services here to stay? As I was working with Laila El-Haddad on the 2009 version of You Are Not Here, we were looking for interesting locations to feature on our mediated/dislocated tour. … Continue reading A Subtle Zionist Occupation of Gaza through Google Maps

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Downhill

This is a paper I wrote for an assignment in the first semester (before I set up the blog). The assignment was to define life in about 10 years from now, at first I thought it was a little childish and geeky but then I started, and quite enjoyed it, hope you do too. Continue reading “Downhill”

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Where It’s @

The following is a draft for a course Dan and I might give in Eyebeam: Where It’s @ mapping and location awareness Mapping is first and foremost an attempt of contextualizing one’s surrounding environment. More than just asking “Where am I?” we believe the cartographer is also concerned with the question “Where am I not?” … Continue reading Where It’s @