"Al Aqsa Park"

by Egypt born artist Wael Shawky.

Shawky’s work deals with culture and religion, comparing and contrasting one with the other. His ‘Al Aqsa Park’, a monochrome animation of Jerusalem’s ‘Al Masjed Al Aqsa’ mosque spinning on an axis. The work deals directly with a number of complex religious issues.

Wael Shawky's video installation (2006) on Tantallon Castles's wall

. still haven't found a sample of video to see and share via collectivegallery and mapmagazine and aionarap

MIT sponsoring contest to solve Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology hopes to mobilize the world's brainpower to solve one of its most troubling problems: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. MIT officials are inviting individuals or teams from any country to participate in its "Just Jerusalem" competition. The contest aims to find a way to make Jerusalem just, peaceful and sustainable by 2050 so that Palestinians and Israelis can live side by side in a city both consider their capital.

via haaretz and Google "IPCRI News & Views" group

Jerusalem SKY is a web-based project being developed by Natsios Young Architects that supports migratory bird conservation efforts by extending the transparency of "open skies" initiatives to the project’s own information architecture. The digital image-maps presented below are proposed new bird’s-eye views of Jerusalem – in the form of graphical user interfaces that are orientation maps for SKY’s open architecture.

The synthetic image-maps are hypermedia portals accessible to the growing online public worldwide – the student, amateur, refugee, scientist, detainee or citizen with access to the world wide web. Icons embedded within SKY’s digital image-map narratives are hyperlinked to allow connective access to myriad online knowledge systems relating to bird migration, geospatial imaging, and conflict resolution – including databases, metadata, multimedia presentations of sound video, and image.