06-29, 13:30–14:00 (Europe/Tirane), UBT D / N113 - Second Floor
Since April 2022 I've been manipulating projected digital maps in collaboration with improvising musicians, dancers, and spoken word artists across Europe and North America. Constraining my project to use only web mapping technologies, "A Synesthete's Atlas" is a curious mutation of expanded cinema, applying strategies from experimental film & animation, color theory, the Light and Space movement, and concrete poetry to geography.
I'll present Carto-OSC, an assemblage of open source libraries, data, and protocols, plus 1000+ lines of JavaScript that integrates it all into a touch-surface interface. I'll discuss my motivations and use of the OSC protocol to control the manipulations, offer aesthetic observations, and present video excerpts of previous performances.
Eric Theise combines strategies from experimental film & animation, color theory, the Light and Space movement, and concrete poetry with open data and open source software to create digital maps that behave in ways never intended by the original developers.