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| ==[[André Wünscher]], [[Anica Huck]], [[Hannes Wagner]], [[Michael Schlund]], [[Michaela Honauer]], [[Thomas Fritzsche]]: Voyageo== | | ==[[André Wünscher]], [[Anica Huck]], [[Hannes Wagner]], [[Michael Schlund]], [[Michaela Honauer]], [[Thomas Fritzsche]]: [[GMU:Voyageo|Voyageo]]== |
| [[Image:Beispiel.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Untertitel]] | | [[Image:Voyageo.jpg|right|thumb|250px|satellite images on skin]] |
| ===The Idea===
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| VOYAGEO consists of projections of satellite pictures onto the human body. These pictures are not about act photography, but about the recognition of earth and the human body. Mankind has a high selfconfidence about itself and its reign on earth but still is not really selfaware. We are trying to produce thus selfconsciousness by showing not the beauty showed in today's media. We want to have a look on the everyday reality of body and earth. | | VOYAGEO consists of projections of satellite pictures onto the human body. These pictures are not about act photography, but about the recognition of earth and the human body. Mankind has a high selfconfidence about itself and its reign on earth but still is not really selfaware. We are trying to produce thus selfconsciousness by showing not the beauty showed in today's media. We want to have a look on the everyday reality of body and earth. |
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| ===Some Background Information===
| | [[GMU:Voyageo|Full documentation]] |
| Our idea bases upon two topics: The Innovation of Satellite Images & the Construction of the Human Body in the Media.<br><br>
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| Our main focus is on the fascination of satellite images. Here you can find an introduction to remote sensing: [http://web.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/images/Remote-Sensing.pdf]
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| And here are some interesting links to develop:
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| * Wikipedia: Space exploration [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceflight english], [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raumfahrt#Meilensteine_der_Raumfahrt deutsch]
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| * Wikipedia: Cartography [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartography english], [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartographie#Qualit.C3.A4tsmerkmale_kartografischer_Produkte deutsch]
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| * Wikipedia: Orbital photography [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery english], [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellitenfotografie deutsch]
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| In sum, the satellite pictures offer a special perspective on the earth:
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| In concern to the photography of Human Bodies we especially dicussed the Individuality of everybody's external appearance. This is related to the individual appearance of the earth on satellite images.
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| People seem to be physically perfect in the modern media. But we know that is mostly manipulated:
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| * Wikipedia: Image Manipulation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_manipulation english], [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotomanipulation deutsch]
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| So the question was & still is: What is physical individuality?
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| <br>Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualism english], [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualit%C3%A4t deutsch]
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| ===The Concept in the Process===
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| We created the Website [http://www.voyageo.de voyageo.de] that acts as “Advent Calendar”, so that every day from the 1st of December until the 24th of December visitors could discover one picture there.
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| We made two photo-sessions with the projection of satellite images on human bodies & shot a lot of beautiful photos. After having selected 24 different themes, we completed the photos with written texts about geographical, historical, political or even individual information & published one a day.
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| It was our aim to take the visitors on a 24-day-long journey.
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| The marketing for our website went into different directions:<br>
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| # We included Google-Analytics. So we had a detailled overview over the daily reception of [http://www.voyageo.de voyageo.de].
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| # We used our private (Email-) Network in order to spread the information about the online "Advent Calendar".
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| # We posted [http://www.voyageo.de voyageo.de] in different topic-related forums of photography or geographics.
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| # The “Advent Calendar” itself is a publishing format used to catch for recurrent attention. We thought the interest in our topic will be higher if people are curious to discover something everyday.
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| ===The Results===
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| [[image:voyage-visits-world.jpg|right|thumb|300px|the visits on world map]]
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| [[image:voyage-visits-germany.jpg|right|thumb|250px|most of the visitors came from Germany]]
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| [[image:voyage-visit-source.jpg|right|thumb|200px|35% of the visits came from referring sites]]
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| Our project was successfully running in December 2009 on [http://www.voyageo.de www.voyageo.de]!
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| According to Google-Analytics nearly 1.300 different people (absolute IP-adresses are meant, repeated visits are not counted) visited our website during the 1st to 24th of December 2009. We had in this time 8.802 pageviwes at all. The average of site-viewing laid at over 7 minutes. That's really long for the typically fast consumer behavior in the Internet. Most of the reactions we personal received from the recipients were truely positive. We had visits from Austria, Switzelrand, the Netherlands, the USA, the UK, France, Sweden, Argentina, Russia & from other countries.
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| Inferential, our posting actions seemed to be successfull. Most of the visits were directly. So the use of our private networks & the direct marketing strategies had most influence on visiting this website.
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| ===Afterwards===
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| The VOYAGEO project in its original sense is already finished.
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| Now we “cleaned up” the site. Descriptions associated to “Advent Calendar” are no more visble. The website functionings as a gallery since January 2010. All photo-text-combinations are still available for direct visitors, search engines & referring sites. Furthermore, people who visit the site still have the chance to contact us for feedback or further information.
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| ==[[Henrike Schneider]]: '''Waste Circulation''' (Erfurt-Schwerborn) - ''Where is it all ending?''== | | ==[[Henrike Schneider]]: '''Waste Circulation''' (Erfurt-Schwerborn) - ''Where is it all ending?''== |
