Looks like the Layar folks have built a layer for the Purdue University Arboretum. Details are here on page 40. I’d be curious to see how well the system works for actually finding a specific species or identifying a species that is in front of the user. I like the use of horizontal lines to show distance. It reminds me of work show by Mark Livingston (I believe) at VR 2009. Of course, they’re also having an occlusion issue in this example but the image looks nice and green.
Health Department Launches Effort to Study Neighborhood Air Quality
It’s not clear but it sounds like they’ll be monitoring for 2 weeks across all four seasons. I wish they’d leave the monitors on for a full year – I wonder why they don’t? Cost perhaps? We certainly found interesting patterns when looking at a year of data for solar energy.
The community air site has more information and more on air quality initiatives is here.
EcoArtTech (Christine Nadir & Cary Peppermint) has a performance this Friday that “will examine the conditions of possibility for getting back to “nature”. I’m a big fan of their work and plan to go. From their Facebook page:
On September 5 from 7pm to 10pm, OTO kicks off our second season with EcoArtTech’s “Externalities: Wilderness and its Others”
EcoArtTech
(Christine Nadir & Cary Peppermint) continue to rethink relations
between humans, technics, technology, and the environment with
“Externalities: Wilderness and its Others” a networked, video-based
performance piece. The performance will examine the conditions of
possibility for getting back to “nature”Co-founded in 2005 by
Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint, EcoArtTech works with digital,
networked, and sustainable technologies and contemporary environments
to create art about the environmentality of modern life. Drawing on a
wide range of literary, artistic, and theoretical fields, our aim is to
imagine new, healthy, and sustainable relationships between animals,
humans, and their environments and technologies.