Project INDIGO - Geoinformation techniques to monitor the urban chameleon
Dr. Geert Verhoeven, Univ.Ass. Dipl.-Ing. Benjamin Wild
Veranstaltungsort
Hybrides Setting:
TU Wien "Freihaus"
Wiedner Hauptstraße 8, 1040 Wien
Raum: gelber Bereich, 2. Stock, Seminarraum DA grün 02 B
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https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/62907615153
Inhalt:
Colourful and quickly changing: contemporary graffiti can be considered the chameleon skin of any urban landscape. Many modern graffiti might seem to violate basic principles of acceptable social behaviour while providing colour to a city and displaying artistic skill. This tension between vandalism and art explains why contemporary graffiti can be so polarising and why they intrigue. This presentation will first introduce various forms of graffiti and define shortcomings in much of the scholarly research on (modern and ancient) graffiti. This sets the stage to introduce project INDIGO (IN-ventory and DI-sseminate G-raffiti along the d-O-naukanal), a two-year academic project launched in September 2021 through funding from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. INDIGO pushed the status quo in inventorying and understanding extensive graffiti-scapes, for which the distinctive graffiti along circa 13 km of Vienna's Danube Canal served as an example. INDIGO wanted to ensure this graffiti-scape's digital survival and interdisciplinary investigation by creating a long-term, accurate, exhaustive, open-access and interactive online archive. This talk will, therefore, mainly detail the technical and logistical developments created to deal with this project's geoinformation.
Vortragende:
Geert J. Verhoeven (°1978) is a senior scientist in archaeology at the University of Vienna (Austria). He received his Master’s and PhD degrees from Ghent University (Belgium) in 2002 and 2009, respectively. Geert is passionately curious about photography, image-based 3D surface modelling, metadata and semantic technologies, spatio-temporal reasoning, colour science, image processing, data visualisation and statistics. His endeavours in these fields aim to improve and standardise data acquisition, data management and information extraction procedures to benefit archaeology and the broader cultural heritage field. From September 2021 to August 2023, Geert took a deep dive into the colourful graffiti world by coordinating project INDIGO. His research output can be found at https://beyondconventionalboundaries.com.
Benjamin Wild (°1996) is a PhD student and university assistant at the Photogrammetry unit at the Department for Geodesy and Geoinformation at Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien). He received his Master’s degree from TU Wien in Geodesy and Geoinformation in 2021. Since then (and until August 2023), he has been part of the graffiti-centred academic project INDIGO. Before investigating photogrammetric solutions in the context of graffiti research, Benjamin worked in the same department but in the field of environmental microwave remote sensing. What connects both experiences is the interest in understanding our environment better, be it the Amazon rainforest or the graffiti along Donaukanal. Benjamin’s research output can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin-Wild-5.
Hinweis: Der Vortrag wird in englischer Sprache gehalten und evtl. gefilmt und danach im Internet veröffentlicht.
Beginn
22. Januar 2025 - 17 Uhr 00