The Geography Factor: Image as Localization, History as Place
The Geography Factor: Image as Localization, History as Place

Summary/Abstract: The paper explores the ability of a number of recent 3D mapping platforms and visualization systems (such as Photosynth 2, Mapillary, Streetmuseum and History Pin) to produce a different spatial and perceptual paradigm, one that merges reality and virtuality, past-tense and live experience, local and global. This type of visual experience, highly dependent on the “geography factor,” is what I call “image as localization.” I will demonstrate how the latter redefines in a profound manner the very definition of image and, in the process, the conceptualization of place and participation.

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