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Assignment4KenManifest destiny Online version: http://ernie.art.yale.edu/~kenmeier/distortion/ Working with formal ideas of distortion, I'd like to explore how geography and information design might intersect. I propose to take data from the CIA World Factbook (specifically, information listed under the 'People' category) and, using the United States as a control group, distort the physical shapes of foreign countries (or, perhaps, their flags) depending on how the data differs from our own statistics. Information on world population, age structure, population growth, birth and death rate, gender, life expectancy, prevalence of disease, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, language, and literacy would all be stored and compared to the American 'ideal.' While the U.S. would always retain a perfect shape (or maybe IT is the image that distorts), a user-selected nation will be scaled, stretched vertically and/or horizontally, change color, be obscured by lines/patterns/typography, etc., based on the level of difference between the two statistics. Of course, this system would be determined somewhat arbitrarily, but the idea is that some countries will seem quite 'familiar' while others are completely out of focus/unrecognizable/alien to the American eye. Ultimately, I'd like to show that geographical difference could be thought of in different ways besides simple size and shape. |