blindmaps – C… what it takes to change https://ars.electronica.art/c/en Ars Electronica 2014 Fri, 26 Aug 2022 05:23:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 BlindMaps https://ars.electronica.art/c/en/blindmaps/ Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:28:43 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/c/?p=2130 Continue reading →]]> Markus Schmeiduch (AT), Andrew Spitz (FR), Ruben van der Vleuten (NL)
THU September 4, 2014 - MON September 8, 2014, 10 Am - 9 PM
Akademisches Gymnasium, Neubau, 3rd and 4th floor

BlindMaps is an R&D project that aims to come up with navigation aids to make it easier and safer for blind people to get around in cities they’re unfamiliar with. The approach: not a system providing verbal output, but rather one that uses a Braille-script-type touchscreen supported by popular online maps and the capabilities of a smartphone.

Schmeiduch, Spitz and van der Vleuten are this year’s recipients of [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant to enable them to further develop this promising approach during a three-month residency at the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

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THU September 4-MON September 9, 2014
Akademisches Gymnasium, Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space,

The Ars Electronica Futurelab has a long track record of working with artists and researchers in residence and is specialized on working on trans-disciplinary projects that are located at the nexus of art, technology and society, and has a worldwide network of collaborating partners.

A successful Network

The Ars Electronica Residency Network (AERN) is the successful attempt to formalize this network to offer extraordinary opportunities and challenges for artists and scientists as well as partner institutions by the means of residency programs.

All currently running programs and projects are presented in the AERN panel at the Ars Electronica Festival.

Planted
How suitable are media for conveying pure information? Is sound almost completely devoid of its source’s perspective even conceivable? “Planted,” a sound installation that Young Sun Kim created during his residency at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, is an answer to these questions.

Real Imaginary Objects
In Deep Space, Daniel Crooks will personally present the works he created as artist in residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. The video artist endeavors to employ time as a physical material in his artistic practice, and to transcend the monitor screen to enter the domain of three-dimensional physical sculpture.

Quadrature
During his stint as artist in residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab from October to December 2013, Chilean electronic musician Ignacio Cuevas Puyol alias White Sample worked together with the lab’s staff to develop open-source hardware for musicians.

BlindMaps
BlindMaps is an R&D project that aims to come up with navigation aids to make it easier and safer for blind people to get around in cities they’re unfamiliar with.

Ars Electronica Residency Network Panel
The Ars Electronica Residency Network offers a highly diversified subset of individual programs that target a wide array of artists.

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