Global Village

Nikki Padilla

What I’m about

•I’m Nikki

•Culture & Media Major at Lang

• Interests include:

• Virtual Communities

• Transnational Communities

• Culture & Customs

• “In a tribal all-at-once culture, the idea of the public”...individuals, all dissimilar but all capable of acting in basically the same way”

• “...an integral collective awareness that transcends conventional boundaries of time and space”

• I wanted to do something that shows how the computer can transcend borders (physical borders as well as time).

• I chose to select a landmark where people of all countries and cultures vacation and take all of their individual pictures to create one cohesive image showing a single place created by many different participants

Concept

• photosynth

• Flickr photo tags

Precedents

Similar Projects Include:

• Flickr’s visual social network

• I gathered all of the photos of the Pantheon and combined them into one cohesive photo

• I chose to not perfectly glue everything together as each photo is that person’s view, memory and experience of the Pantheon, I didn’t want to alter each person’s experience but to combine all of the mismatched ones

Methodology

• A 2D cohesive image as well as a 3D interactive view of the Pantheon

Final Results

• To me, the internet has an incredible ability to connect people across physical borders. My project shows that people from all over have had the same experience of going to the same place and taking the exact same photo to bring home to share or have as a momentum. Social networks create social spaces which is making our world much smaller.

Conclusion