Maraya | Reflection

It has been a few weeks since the launch of the highly anticipated Maraya, conceptualized by Emily Carr's own Henry Tsang, Simon Levin and Glen Lowry. The internationally collaborative interactive work is combines user-generated content(via Flikr or Facebook) with the idea of a remixing an already mapped area(Vancouver and Dubai) for a subjective experience.

© Maraya

Glen Lowry, one of the three creators, comments on the initial ideas behind Maraya:

Understanding that these two cities are linked and that they are part of a global flow of ideas(good and bad) and capital, we felt that we needed to take a different approach. Thinking about how cities are now built by flows of digital information(email jpgs, quicktime movies, CAD drawings), and the fact that Vancouver's Concord Pacific Place was touted as one of the first fiber optic neighborhoods in North America we decided to look down, and sought to glimpse the metaphorical flow of urban information beneath our feet.

For the full blog post on Maraya | Reflection, visit Glen's blog/