Join PDPal mapping team in Minneapolis, 6/12-6/15

– apologies for cross-posting –

Hi all,
I'd like to invite you to join the PDPal crew (Scott Paterson, Marina Zurkow
and Julian Bleecker) in our efforts to create a Knowledge Map for the Twin
Cities as commissioned by the Design Institute at the University of
Minnesota. As part of our public art installation at the Walker Art Center,
we'd like you to participate by doing some mapping using an analog version
of the project we've created especially for the opening weekend. For more
information about PDPal see description at the end of this email.

Please join us 6:30pm, Thursday, June 12th at the opening of PDPal at the
Walker Art Center!!

Let me know if/when you can join us and others who may be interested in
participating.
Best regards,
[sgp]
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scott paterson

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PDPal INTRO
"To cover the world, to cross it in every direction, will only ever be to
know a few square meters of it. tiny incursions into disembodied vestiges,
small incidental excitements, improbable quests congealed in a mawkish haze
a few details of which will remain in our memory. And with these, the sense
of the world's concreteness.no longer as a journey having constantly to be
remade, nor the illusion of a conquest, but as the rediscovery of a meaning,
the perceiving that the earth is a form of writing, a geography of which we
had forgotten that we ourselves are the authors."
- Georges Perec, Species of Spaces

PDPal is a public art project for the Palm PDA and the web. It is a mapping
application that transforms your everyday activities and urban experiences
into a dynamic city that you write. PDPal engages the user through a visual
transformation that is meant to highlight the way technologies that locate
and orient are often static and without reference to the lively nature of
urban cultural environments.

Your own city is the city composed of the places you live, play, work, and
remember. It's about the routes and paths through which you make
connections. Your city is also about the meanings you ascribe to the places
you inhabit, pass through, love or hate. You imagine those places and routes
as more than a street address, or directions you may give. These places have
vivid, metaphorical meanings and histories that PDPal allows you to capture
and visualize imaginatively, effectively writing your imaginary city.

PDPal