Proposal Slides: Research Proposal-1ptowia
Through the partner-project-exchange exercise, my partner, Luci, suggested a digital map, using the collected brochures and cards from New York as a tool to navigate the places I have been. Using this idea as a starting point, I looked for projects related to digital mapping to gain an understanding of the programs and methods I can use to create this digital map. The results were that I couldn’t find examples that are specifically digital mapping but I was able to find related projects on maps or objects found in maps to create a new composition. This includes a project by Jenny Odell where she isolated objects from their original environment and put them together with similar objects to create a strange new juxtaposition. This gave me the idea of not only focusing on the location of the physical data I’ve collected but to observe its components to see a particular re-occurence of objects. In searching for artists who use the same medium that I am interested in, although it didn’t give me the answer I was expecting, I was lead to projects that broadened my perspective on the different ways I can tackle my topic/data.
My next step is to actually analyze and map the data itself and experiment with juxtapositions. I plan to dissect my data using the map as a tool to identify patterns in which I can juxtapose for the audience. Depending on the results from the data mapping, I hope to create a book, using the floral patterns carved on wood as the cover to present the outcome of the mapping. 
