Abstract
The natural world allows us to leave our mark through the footsteps we make
in the sand, and through the wearing of the turf as we create short cuts
to our destinations. It is these individual, unique distinctions that track our
movement, yet due to natural world phenomena we may not see or experience
these exact same routes again. The footsteps are washed away and
the desire line once created by a shortcut may become overgrown as a new,
quicker route takes its place.
GPS datalogging devices now enable us to track our routes through space.
A walk across the worldly landscape can now be saved into the digital
landscape, a world of multiple pixels and in many instances two-dimensional
!at plains. De Certeau writes of the ‘walker’ who experiences the routes
through the city, in contrast to the ‘voyeur’ who views the city’s design from
the rooftops above (de Certeau 1984: 92). Now, both the walker and voyeur
are in many ways coexisting simultaneously through these technologies.
Providing these two instances ask the question of how our experiences of
walking and wandering across the landscape differ from the representations
provided by the mapped view. The act of wandering combined with this form
of emergent map creation allows for both practices to be undertaken seamlessly,
with the digital map growing with every physical step.
in the sand, and through the wearing of the turf as we create short cuts
to our destinations. It is these individual, unique distinctions that track our
movement, yet due to natural world phenomena we may not see or experience
these exact same routes again. The footsteps are washed away and
the desire line once created by a shortcut may become overgrown as a new,
quicker route takes its place.
GPS datalogging devices now enable us to track our routes through space.
A walk across the worldly landscape can now be saved into the digital
landscape, a world of multiple pixels and in many instances two-dimensional
!at plains. De Certeau writes of the ‘walker’ who experiences the routes
through the city, in contrast to the ‘voyeur’ who views the city’s design from
the rooftops above (de Certeau 1984: 92). Now, both the walker and voyeur
are in many ways coexisting simultaneously through these technologies.
Providing these two instances ask the question of how our experiences of
walking and wandering across the landscape differ from the representations
provided by the mapped view. The act of wandering combined with this form
of emergent map creation allows for both practices to be undertaken seamlessly,
with the digital map growing with every physical step.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of ISEA2010 |
| Subtitle of host publication | The 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art |
| Editors | Judith Funke, Stefan Riekeles, Andreas Broeckmann, Hartware MedienKunstVerein |
| Place of Publication | Germany |
| Publisher | Revolver Publishing |
| Pages | 509-511 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-86895-103-5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| Event | ISEA2010 RUHR - Berlin, Germany Duration: 20 Aug 2010 → 29 Aug 2010 |
Conference
| Conference | ISEA2010 RUHR |
|---|---|
| Country/Territory | Germany |
| City | Berlin |
| Period | 20/08/10 → 29/08/10 |