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TELEPATH_Way-finding in the New Urban Ecology
Matt McBride // mcbride at artcenter.edu // http://www.mdm-design.net
 “Telepath: Way-finding in the New Urban Ecology” examines the intersection of digital collective memory, locative technology and urbanism as it transforms the Human Computer Interface into a Human Environmental Interface. A Telepath augments the act of looking through computing and gesture through processing, enabling individuals to engage in practical, cultural and emotional mapping as they excavate the specificity and sensibility of their environment.
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It makes the invisible digital world – visible — providing relevant information to a user for specific physical contexts. |
Telepath seeks to evolve the Human Computer Interface into a Human Environmental Interface, creating a more elegant relationship between the physical world and the invisible ecology of digital data co-present within it. |
Even now, the Internet is constructing a dense architecture of digital co-referents: data that annotates and augments much of our physical world. New locative technologies are going to increase this density, enabling people to place data into geo-specific locations — a process called tagging. |
It is just one of the technologies that will embed our environment with retrievable data, smart objects, and sensors that communicate with us and with each other. |
In addition to acting as a “seeing machine”, Telepath allow individuals to save, collect, organize, and share digital information (tags) they encounter in the physical world. |
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