ImageAbility was an interactive installation and participatory mapping tool at the Chiparaki Cultural Civic Computing Center adjacent to the Los Angeles State Historic Park (LASHP) near Downtown Los Angeles. Part artwork and part tool for community investigation of the city, the goals were to foster dialogue, self-representation, and collective remembering and imagining alternative futures.
ImageAbility used a pen sketch-based interface to explore a large database of media about Los Angeles. It was created by REMAP’s Fabian Wagmister, with software development by Eitan Mendelowitz and technical direction by Jeff Burke.
Chiparaki/LASHP would later become the Downtown headquarters of REMAP and California State Parks‘ Interpretive Media Laboratory.
Los Angeles—2006.