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various graphical representation of geographies, flows and functions of new(ish) electronic spaces

data visualizaiton and information design blog. Evidencing a space for imagining invisible, giving form to data flows

a real-time location-based mobile gaming platform

Data derived from near-infrared imaging (NIRI) was used in 2004 to create this visualization of the effect of globalization over time

a digital documentation of archaelogical sites, artifacts, and cultural relics into a virtual museum.

Information mapping for puzzling out the networks of power and relationships underlying major U.S. companies

This is a cool video from research scientist Beverly Harrison and company working on the OASIS (Object-Aware Situated Interactive System) project at Intel Labs. They recently gave a demo of the project at CES this year featuring a Kinect style camera and projector. Also, shows a collection of artists working on augmented engineering.

kinetic projection onto body surfaces

Summary: Contrary to much of the hype that posits cyberspace as the uncontested domain of rugged individualists, computer networks and traffic exhibit deeply social and political roots. The Internet is neither inherently oppressive nor automatically emancipatory; it is a terrain of contested philosophies and politics. After a brief review of the politics of electronic knowledge, we discuss the ways in which the Internet can be harnessed for counterhegemonic (antiestablishment) political ends. We focus on progressive uses, including the confrontation of nomadic power and rhizomic power structures, in which the local becomes the global. We also offer an encapsulation of right-wing uses. Throughout, we see cyberactivism as a necessary, but not sufficient, complement to real-world struggles on behalf of the disempowered.