Re: [-empyre-] mobile cartography / territorialising media

[kanarinka <kanarinka@ikatun.com>]

This project reminds me of the US government's failed TOTAL  
INFORMATION AWARENESS program.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness

Very similar to imperial cartographic traditions (the assertion of  
omniscient presence, the all-seeing, celestial eye, etc), the logo  
for the program said it all:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness#The_IAO_logo


But, in the end, I'm really glad that MIT is making the world safer,  
more understandable and more visible for all of us and not for the  
bad people. Even better, it seems to be art since it's at the Venice  
Biennale, so I'm sure there is nothing scary, imperial, colonizing or  
threatening about it.

</end deep sarcasm>



On Sep 22, 2006, at 4:46 AM, Simon Taylor wrote:

> Dear Empyreans,
> I'd been meaning to share the following link - and without further  
> comment -
> apart from the possibility that it might already have come up - if  
> so I
> apologise for the redundancy of the information:
>
> http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/realtime-rome.html
>
> yours
> simon taylor
>
>
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