Cartographies are alway imprecise. An important aspect of 2346, created by LAT-23, is discussing the impossibility of showing everything about a place in its map. The act of cartography implies in choosing perspectives about spaces (on the optimistic scenario of shared and collective maps) or inscribe marks on territories (on the pessimistic scenario of classic militaristic approaches). Even overlaying ways of seeing the street, 2346 only shows Augusta in fragments of an incomplete mosaic. Histories that interweave describing particular or generic days and nights, useless or surprising facts and data, visceral or unnecessary things and thinkings. By fictionalizing testimonies and selecting statistics in arbitrary ways, 2346 tells as much of its savvy narratives and spicy stories as of the impossibility of showing a place in its specificities. What is the relation between how high is the rent of a building and the altitude in certain parts of Augusta street? How many liters of alcohol are sold in a bar on the corner? How many condoms are used on a full-house night in a ship hotel on the area? How many cigarettes were sold on a newstand? How much is a taxi from on end of the street to the other? 2346 present this and other data, in QR-Codes available in bars at Augusta, and also compiled on a printed / online map, available for the audience to share its own experiences. 2346 completes a trilogy of maps about São Paulo in which LAT-23 aims to deconstruct traditional cartography.
(Source: Description from the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue)