the timboucher experience

I’m going back through my memory clips and realizing I have a bunch of keywords I’ve been meaning to mesh together, but which have fallen by the wayside. So lemme just zip through and chronicle them here so we can boost these terms in my search ranking…

Psychogeography definition: “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals.”

Situationist, derive: “from a dérive point of view cities have psychogeographical contours, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes that strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones.”

What is GIS? “A geographic information system (GIS) captures, stores, analyzes, manages, and presents data that refers to or is linked to location.”

Baudelaire, flaneur: “While Baudelaire characterized the flâneur as a “gentleman stroller of city streets”,[citation needed] he saw the flâneur as having a key role in understanding, participating in and portraying the city. A flâneur thus played a double role in city life and in theory, that is, while remaining a detached observer.”

City That Reads: “The fact that the written narratives are read by voice actors and appear only as sound in headphones upon activation not only enhances characterization and tone through speech pattern, cadence and inflection, but creates a sense that every space is agitated (alive with unseen history, stories, layers) The city is to be read and publication becomes one of the streets, zeroes and ones in code, and in the air.”

Ghost Shift: “The new paradigm finds the layers able to exist in the city and in layers of time to be experienced and agitated into being only by the participant’s reaching the spot as set to latitude and longitude trigger, a voice in the headphones, a character and narrative, a “ghost”, shifts and contrasts in time, etc…”

Synthetic Awareness: “The device created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists can turn any surface into a touch-screen for computing, controlled by simple hand gestures. The gadget can even take photographs if a user frames a scene with his or her hands, or project a watch face with the proper time on a wrist if the user makes a circle there with a finger.”

Cultural Landscape: “The word “landscape” itself combines ‘land’ with a verb of Germanic origin, “scapjan/ schaffen” to mean, literally, ‘shaped lands’.[6] Lands were then regarded to have been shaped by natural forces, and the unique details of such landshaffen (shaped lands) became themselves the subject of ‘landscape’ paintings.”

Geologger: “A GPS logger simply logs the position of the device at regular intervals in its internal memory. Modern GPS loggers have either a memory card slot, or internal flash memory and a USB port. Some act as a USB flash drive. This allows downloading of the data for further analysis in a computer.”

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