* Web Application and Site-Specific Art Installation (Projection onto City Landmarks)
PhineasMap will be an online, Web 2.0 application that digitally aggregates injury and medical treatment stories onto a single 3-D interface, which will be shaped like a large wireframe body. Medical data will be fed from the NIH, WHO, and international government health sources. Injury stories will also be submitted online from people around the world via a cell phone, web browser, or PDA -- or via sites like YouTube, MySpace, and Flickr. Users will be able to access all of this medical information via their own personalized Phineasmaps or on a series of collective medical bodies.
The 3-D anatomical body will also evolve in real-time depending on the content of these video, audio, and text-based submissions. For example, a larger number of broken foot stories will result in the body having a larger foot. A larger number of asthma stories will result in enlarged lungs and trachea. A Java program will replace certain parts of the body constantly based on various pre-designed templates -- as well as the latest data submitted to the web site. (This ever-changing collective body will likely resemble a homunculus.)
Specialized Phineasmaps will also be created based on:
- Specialized data subsets, like injuries to American soldiers from the Iraq War. This particular Phineasmap would show all the amputations, scars, and other injuries suffered by American soldiers on a single 3-D body.
- Geographic locations, where you would be viewing a single body that represents the health and well-being of your specific town, city, country, or continent.
The city-specific PhineasMap bodies would also be projected as large scale images onto buildings and other landmarks for each specific city -- such as the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City:
