Last week’s video really spoke to me, and Camille & Anu’s excellent presentation put fourth a great question that I’d like to answer in rich media: “How would you make the city talk by walking through it?” (I paraphrase…)
For the next couple of weeks, I’m going to turn to the city as a blank page onto which I will scrawl a few very distinct narratives. I’m an audio-oriented person first-and-foremost, so I’m most likely going to use audio as a foundation for my initial inquiry. I’m not 100% sure what these inquiries will ultimately look like, but I’ll be doing it with a cocktail of field audio recordings, mobile streaming of audio, GPS data harvesting (using the Android platform– perhaps Mushon and Craig can give me some pointers!), and probably some video to visualize everything.
I’d like your help in picking a theme or topic for each week’s inquiry, too. So please keep the comments coming!!!
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check out glowlab http://www.glowlab.com/
and the field of psychogeography.
So this may sound tacky to some of you more hardened New Yorkers, but one of those double decker buses that you can hope on and hope off of throughout the city at the most tourist noteworthy points might be a cool way of starting.
A way to split up the posts could be by each borough.
Also you could investigate the transportation system i.e. go under the city.
Here’s another way of making the city talk, or talking back to it through walking:
iSee – The Institute for Applied Autonomy from Rich Pell on Vimeo.
http://www.appliedautonomy.com/isee.html
I am looking forward to your travelogue
also check out http://www.syracusetext.com/
people walk around the city to different nodes and get text messages that feature pieces of a story. the story unfolds in whatever way the people walk around the city. non linear narrative formation. cool stuff.