Leonardo Aranda

Artist, Philosopher, Programmer

De nubes y antenas

2024 -
Countermapping device, digital cartography, participatory workshop

Credits:

Proyect concept, workshop guidance, programming and electronic design
Leonardo Aranda Brito

Workshop participants
Antonio Arango
Dora Bartilotti
Dan Escárraga
Daniela Pascual
Valeria Valdez
Piedad Yáñez Fernández

De nubes y antenas is a participatory critical cartography that emerged in the context of the project Cuando las nubes eran de agua. This cartography begins with the question: How can we make the computing cloud visible? From this question, a device was developed that senses the intensity of Wi-Fi signals around it and creates a geolocated record of them. As part of the project, this device was reproduced by participants in an activity that culminated in a collaborative cartography that brings together the participants' journeys. Both the device and the map aim to propose ways of making tangible our relationship with an informational geography formed by electromagnetic waves and the spectrum that, although part of our daily lives, remain invisible to us.


Documentation of the workshop

Documentation of the workshop

Documentation of the workshop

Documentation of the workshop

Documentation of the workshop

Documentation of the workshop

Participatory mapping tour of downtown Mexico City

Participatory mapping tour of downtown Mexico City

Participatory mapping tour of downtown Mexico City

Participatory mapping tour of downtown Mexico City

Resulting digital cartography