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May 2006
Mobileframes
Mobileframes is research project investigating
the public authoring potential for networked mobile viewfinders.
"...Traditionally, the nature of media and imagery has geographically
dislocated us from these landscapes. But now, through the computerised
and networked mobile viewfinder, the landscape and the same, mediated
landscape come crashing together, blurring the edges between modes
of production, consumption, collaboration, perspective, and time".
http://www.mobileframes.co.uk
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April 2006
Videowalks
The Videowalks
project facilitates anyone with a mobile device capable of video
playback, to simultaneously walk and experience somebody else's
walk of the same route. Through this process, the viewfinder effectively
turns into a display of two overlapping perspectives of a space.
The same people are invited to participate and record a favorite
short walk whilst pointing out the secrets or interesting objects
that others may not normally notice. The recording would then
be entered into the Videowalks online database for others to download
as a pod-cast and view on their mobile devices.
There are several aims of the project, which revolve around the
democratisation of public space. Walk guides or authors have a
chance to respond to the landscape that has been built around
them, providing an invaluable resource for future planning, and
the design of the built environment as a whole.
To promote the project, we are to invite a range of key public
figures to record walks for others to experience.
The project will officially launch during Architecture Week 2006.
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Summer 2005
Performance research
Wayfromhome is a collaboration with Misha Myers
of Dartington
College of Arts. The project invited refugees and asylum seekers
from Plymouth, UK, to make a map from a place they call home to
a special place. Following this map as a guide, a walk was then
taken in Plymouth, superimposing landmarks of the city over the
map of their home. The resulting maps can be seen on the wayfromhome
website. The project was documented in Performance
Research issue ‘On the page’ Vol.9, No2 ( ISSN 1352-8165),
in 2004.
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April 2003
Infovis 2003
In
2003, a collaboration with Chris Speed resulted in a poster presentation
for digital video production ‘Figures’ at Infovis 2003
(data visualisation conference), Seattle. Figures is one of a series
of three animated films which attempts to describe physical spaces
through their use by people. Spacelapse
is another film in the series which got aired on HTV west in 2002
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June 2001
BOOM
BOOM is an interactive electroacoustic project.
It consists of a boom microphone suspended from the ceiling of a
room.
Speakers in the room produce samples from the
microphone based on the level of input, and other program based
factors. The function of a boom microphone is to record a sphere
of sound without interrupting a frame of vision. it also represents
portability; the ability to record in any geographical space.
Sound within a given space is affected by the attributes of the
space's acoustic architecture. further, these attributes have
an infinite effect on infinite sounds; every sound produced in
that space is unique. By taking moments of sound and looping them
back to the participant and making visible the microphone, BOOM
encourages listeners to think about the diverse sounds that happen
in every environment.
BOOM was first exhibited at V01D,
an exhibition at Plymouth Arts Centre in 2001. The piece was also
documented in the publication that accompanied the exhibition. Download
the PDF of V01D here.
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