by henry | Sep 16, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
The concept of “Thick Mapping”, as described by Presner, Shephard, and Kawano, is simultaneously an intriguing and terrifying idea. Thick Mapping, as well as HyperCities, poses an appealing theory for representing historical relations in the digital age. According...
by drewes | Sep 16, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Presner et al expose the idea of “hypercities.” Their idea is to create a sort of internet which can be virtually walked through rather than viewed; one that would expose layers of history connected to one single point. They mention the idea of...
by overdahl | Sep 16, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Long before the advent of public-domain internet, Hans Gumbrecht envisioned a multidimensional historiographic method that would venture beyond traditional contextualized, bias-laced narratives. In his aptly-titled “User’s Manual” to his 1965 publication In 1926:...
by Stella Li | Sep 15, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
“Not a book about maps in the literal sense, HyperCities describes the humanist project of participating and listening that transforms mapping into an ethical undertaking – thick mapping.” Layering the process of mapping with the study of humanities,...
by pruim | Sep 15, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Think back. Do you remember a time when the internet did not exist? I don’t. I have lived my whole life with the convenience of information at the click of a button. What does “eidetic” mean… I’ll google it! What is the smallest country in the world?...
