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Humanidades Digitales Narrativas espaciales

Locative Media and Spatial Narrative

  • The predominant uses of mapping and spatial information necessarily lead us to a radical re assesment of the nature of representation.
  • Diegetic space can be mapped onto geographic location. Can this emergent space for art and performance create new perceptions of space and place in an audience?
  • New mobile technologies seem to offer a unique opportunity to break the determinist “male” control of narrative. // More decentred and subtle narrative mapping.
  • Relation between GPS, wireless location services, surveillance tech all define data space. Surveillance: observe every point at every time.
  • Maps are by their nature an uneasy mix of the subjective and objective. The map reflects the mapmakers concerns and subjectivities.
  • Projects: Locative media workshop // Urban tapestries
  • New technology is also capable of producing powerful interactive spaces, but even sophisticated site-specific locative work can fall down over the issue of content. (9)
  • The way to create computer narratives is to define the features of the landscape to be explored, and let those define the path (Bib Huges) (11)

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