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Presentation at the conference: Objects- What Matter? Technology, Value and Social Change University of Manchester, 1-4 September 2009
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Objects and traces in space: an approach to locative
media (art) projects
Gemma San Cornelio EsquerdoUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Information and Communication Science [email protected]
Manchester, 3th September 2009
1. Preface: origins and motivation
2. Building the sense of place3. On Subjective cartography4. On tracing objects5. Locative media Projects
discussion6. Conclusions
Objects and traces in space: an approach to locative media projects
Preface
Objects and traces in space: an approach to locative media projects
“...I began to understand that objects, narratives, memories and space are woven into a complex,
expanding web-each fragment of which gives meaning to all the others”
W. Mitchell
Locative media artworks
Can you see me now?Blast Theory Graffiti Research LabGraffiti Research Lab
Audio Walk Janet Cardiff
Objects and traces in space: an approach to locative media projects
PrefaceKey concepts of ITC relation with space and place
Hypothesis: Locative Media are reinforcing the notion of place.
• Augé: non-places• Meyrowich: losing sense of place.
• Massey: the openness of places.• Scannell: being simultaneity in two places• Urry: local places as multiplex
Transformation and even the disappearance of place.
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Building the sense of place:
Objects and traces in space: an approach to locative media projects
• “Canal Accessible”. Antoni Abad (2006)
• “Bio Mapping”. Christian Nold (2004-)
• “Disappearing Places”. Matthew Belanger and
Marianne R. Petit (2007-)
Locative Media projects studied
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Building the sense of place:
Objects and traces in space: an approach to locative media projects
• Maps are not objective depictions. There is a point of
view and relation with “power”. (abstract space, H.
Lefebvre)
• Alternative mapping. Feminist geography (Massey).
Psychogeography (Debord) based on subjective
experience.
• Maps are never equivalent to what they represent
(Baudrillard simulacrum)
• Locative Media are challenging the “disembodied”,
decorporalized, screen-based experience.
On Subjective cartography
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Building the sense of place:
Objects and traces in space: an approach to locative media projects
• Subjects, objects and commodities. subjects
converted into objects, objects that have
biographies (Kopytoff). Commodities as
interchangeable. The problem of art
commodification.
• Objects, concepts and processes. Conceptualization of contemporary art: land art –the object substitutes its representation, performance art -body and space as object, conceptual art - Concept vs commodity, processual art (Marchan-Fiz). The object doesn’t disappear but is overcome.
On tracing objects
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Building the sense of place:
Objects and traces in space: an approach to locative media projects
• De-contextualization and de-materialization.
Biographies of objects and its trajectory in
contemporary art: a parallelism
On tracing objects
object ---> decontextualization ---> conceptual or immaterial art ---> hybrid objects
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Locative media Projects discussion
Objects and traces in space: an approach to locative media projects
place = openobjects = hybrid
connected by technology
subjective
cartography
Bio Mapping. Christian Nold. 2004
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Locative media Projects discussion
Objects and traces in space: an approach to locative media projects
Disappearing places. Belanger and Petit. 2007
Canal accessible. A. Abad.
2006
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Locative media Projects discussion
Objects and traces in space: an approach to locative media projects
Building personal maps
• Locative media as performance.
• Locative media as conceptual and land art
• establishing a dialogue between artists and
publics
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Conclusions
Objects and traces in space: an approach to locative media projects
Return to the place?
• Critical points in Locative Media art projects
• Uncritical or naive use of GPS
• Privacy of data and corporate uses
• Unfair participation (vantage knowledge)
• Incorporation of the anthropological view.
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Thank you!
Objects and traces in space: an approach to locative media projects
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