Text-map (map my submissions) ~ 2007

Text-map (map my submissions) ~ 2007

For this project, I cracked into Google's map API a bit so that I could manipulate google searches within a framework I developed. Text-map takes user submissions in a poem format and plots them based off the results of google's search algorithm, often times yielding strange or offbeat returns, and other times striking powerful and chilling matches, based on our use of google as a search for information from all queries even those dealing with death or loss.

Text-map also operates as an alternative way to map or navigate a space via text. When you go to the site, it logs your IP address and focuses the quires in your area, allowing you to textually explore the area you live in.