Maps, Routes and Shortcuts Mapping Cyberspace
JANUARY 7th – MARCH 29th 2002

In this second MEDIALOUNGE programme, we've selected projects that show creative approaches to the task of visualising information, and how elegant visualisation can not only help us find our way through masses of data, but also find 'shortcuts' to information that would be virtually impossible to find in the real world. In some of our examples, such as the RHIZOME or PLUMBDESIGN alternative interfaces, these shortcuts make it easy for people to search huge databases, and to make connections between related pieces of data. Other projects, such as FAXYOURMP and THEYRULE, use these 'shortcuts' to more obvious, political, ends.

CYBERGEOGRAPHY shows us the sheer beauty of visualisation, from the first hand-drawn sketches of the internet in 1969 to incredible 'snap-shots' of the internet today, looking more like underwater coral than a global network of computers.

Finally, Lucy Kimbell’s on-going research project LIX-E maps The Media Centre itself, taking a range of data, from the amount of internet traffic in the building to physical data about lighting, heating and movement.

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