Garmin enters the smartphone market and announced Nuviphone (I especially like the NuviPhone detail):
Unlike the iPhone it comes with comprehensive GPS functionality like navigation and built-in geotagging, which is great and makes it a potential phone-upgrade-candidate! More information here, here and here. via [BlinkGeo]
Better than social networks like XING or Facebook for looking up a person: 123people not only includes ordinary web search results, photos and videos, but as well email addresses, post addresses and phone numbers (in Austria so far).
Even if I’m aware that there is a lot personal data spread over the internet, I feel very uncomfortable when it’s joined and displayed on one single page. The biggest privacy threat, in the private and public sector, is matching personal data out of several, originally seperated, data bases. Luckily public administration suffers from bureaucracy which adds some friction between public agencies. Actually it adds more friction than our legislation does at the moment. On the private side, the friction is lesser. Especially on the internet it seems easy to trace persons, as services like 123people demonstrate.
However, it just proves the “feeling” I’m having that it’s time to withdraw some personal information from the internet. Sooner or later it’ll be abused.
Btw, maybe 123people should change their tagline to something like
123people, the stalker’s tool of choice.
Next weekend, as part of the Art and Cartography symposium, the exhibition “zoomandscale” will take place at the Academy of Fine Arts and Kunsthalle Wien project space karlsplatz.
We participate with 2 projects in the exhibition at Kunsthalle project space:
The opening is on Friday evening, celebrated with 4 hour presentation block of all participating art projects (no comment on that), and somehow reserved for symposium attendees – there is an entry fee for public visitors. Saturday and Sunday it’s open to the public, without entry fees.
Basically I’ll be there during the weekend, but not all the time. If you would like to meet and hear some details and backgrounds about the projects, please drop me a note (or comment) before and we figure something out.
Below is all the official information about the event:
“zoomandscale”
The exhibition „zoomandscale“ in the context of the symposium „Art and Cartography – Cartography and Art“ shows a range of international artists concerned with maps in a wider sense. The exhibition presents a
variety of positions oscillating between artistic cartography and cartographic art which put into perspective the normative claim of strictly scientific cartography.
Knowing that the map is not the territory but its interpretation we allow different readings of territorial representations. In fact, artists´ maps may capture issues which cartographers´ “scientific” maps would never describe. Whereas the scientific attempt to describe the world makes a normative claim by using rational systems like longitude and latitude, artistic methods use opposite approaches by challenging or ignoring these coordinates. They may even take the liberty to shift points of reference to unexpected grounds. This is what makes maps so intriguing: they communicate different views of our world and help us understand its complexity.
The exhibition “zoomandscale” takes a closer look at the relation between objectivity and interpretation and presents works ranging from maps as reflection of the individual, up to studies of social fields and cityspaces. “zoomandspace” raises the question how to describe places as reference points for strategies of orientation and how maps as metaphors can describe spatial, social and psychological realities.
Thursday 31.01.2008
Academy of Fine Arts, Aula
Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna
18:00h Gallery Opening
Peter Dykhuis [CA], Wolfgang Fiel [AT],
Gabu Heindl [AT], Christian Mayer [AT],
Manuela Mourao [US], Nasrine Seraji, [FR/AT],
Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch [AT], Ludo Slagmolen [NL],
Laurene Vaughan [AU], Ruth Watson [NZ]
Opening hours exhibtion [free entry]
Friday 01.02.2008 13-18:00h
Saturday 02.02.2008 13-21:00h
Sunday 03.02.2008 13-18:00h
Friday 01.02.2008
Kunsthalle Wien project space karlsplatz, Auditory
Treitlstraße 2, 1040 Vienna
18:00h Gallery Opening
Presentation / Discussion [entry: reduced fee]
Helen Chang / Stefan Gruber [AT], Wolfgang Fiel [AT],
Theresa Häfele [AT], Maria Holter [AT], Hosoya Schaefer
Architects [CH], Sabine Müller-Funk [AT], Waltraud Palme [AT],
probosics [UK], Christian Spanring [AT], Titusz Tarnai +
Students of IKA [AT], Evamaria Trischak [AT]
Opening hours exhibition [free entry]
Saturday 02.02.2008, 16-24:00h
Sunday 03.02.2008, 13-19:00h
Friday 01.02. + Saturday 02.02.2008
Vienna University of Technology
Main Building, 1st floor, Boecklsaal
Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna
Symposium [language: english, entry: registration fee]
Friday 01.02.2008, 08:30-17:30h
Saturday 02.02.2008, 09.00-18:00h
http://cartography.tuwien.ac.at/artandcartography
Can’t help, but some abbreviations aren’t very well chosen:
African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE)
Anyways, for people working in the remote sensing field, their conference – AARSE 2008, October 27-31 2008 in Accra, Ghana – seems interesting to me. Africa is a continent where EO technologies really can help countries to meet the very basic needs of the population. Besides creating fancy high-res imagery where people can pinpoint their parked cars…
… means communication and not national identity.
Said during a TV debate about xenophobia last night. I think once we understand that, we’ll do a major step towards a successful integration policy.
Times change: after all it’s becoming acceptable to talk about Britney in Bobo environments?
Movie mastermind Quentin Tarantino could make the impossible possible and Britney cool. The same way as he transformed John Travolta from a clean family safe star into a killing junkie in the mid-nineties.
He could do the same with Britney. She wouldn’t even have to act very much, in her current condition she could perfectly star as sleazy stripper in Tarantino’s remake of “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!”.
Oh, and let’s face it, Piece Of Me IS a great pop song! [via Ö3]
Nuclear Supergau by ztohoven. [via derStandard]
