The next generation of electronic
ambassadors
CLUI touchscreen at the Southern California Institute
of Architecture.
CLUI photo
Another CLUI touchscreen kiosk
was deployed in February to the Southern California School
of Architecture (SCI-Arc), as part of an exhibit about alternate
mapping approaches to the City of Los Angeles. The exhibit,
called Genius Loci, was curated by CLUI members Lize Mogel
and Chris Kahle, who had teamed up to produce the exhibit
for the Municipal Art Gallery of Los Angeles. Genius Loci
is a conceptual geographic term that translates as “spirit
of a place.”
The kiosk’s program, created
by the CLUI’s programming wizard Steve Rowell, featured
a touchscreen map, connected to images and text about components
of the City of Los Angeles that extend far into the landscape
beyond the city. The title for the program was 15 Los Angeles
Places and their Distance from the Hyperion Treatment Plant.
A symposium was held at SCI-Arc as part of the exhibit,
with presentations by geographers Denis Cosgrove, Denis
Wood, Glen Creason, and Morgan Yates, the map archivist
at the Southern California Automobile Club, as well as Valarie
Tevere, Norman Klein, Eddo Stern, Jason Brown, and Gustavo
LeClerc. Matthew Coolidge represented the CLUI at the symposium,
as he often does, until this function too can be replaced
by an interactive device.
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