One of the over-arching themes in this Degree Project is about the normalized ways of understanding.
More often than not, we navigate our cities through numerical data—through coordinates, street numbers, ETA, price of an Uber ride. Part of the process of defamiliarizing the ‘normal,’ is to look at it with fresh eyes—or in this case, fresh ears.
How can we take what is familiar and make it feel as foreign as ‘Elsewhere’? What would happen if maps were rewired and a different kind of data was plugged in? Instead of specific addresses, this digital experience uses songs named after streets and avenues of New York City, embedding music—that is activated by proximity—into Google maps.
How can we take what is familiar and make it feel as foreign as ‘Elsewhere’? What would happen if maps were rewired and a different kind of data was plugged in? Instead of specific addresses, this digital experience uses songs named after streets and avenues of New York City, embedding music—that is activated by proximity—into Google maps.
