[-empyre-] Go this Way fwd from chris caines

["Melinda Rackham" <melindar@acmi.net.au>]

Hello Empyreans

Perhaps I'll start with a brief description of the project I've done for
Networked in the 2004 show then labour the point by elucidating my interest
in "in situ" practice in relation to the piece.

"go this way" is a sort of walking hypertext, a series of linked stories
designed to be experienced on foot, mobile phone in hand in the Melbourne
CBD. It's made for phones that can pull web pages over gprs which means the
WindowsMobile, Nokia, Handspring and Sony phones that have web browsers and
some of the newer WAP 2.0 phones. You can read it offline on pdas using the
excellent Plucker to pull it into memory (http://www.plkr.org/).

The project uses the convention of a fictional "society" that in the manner
of GPS mad geocachers annotates actual spaces with stories of peak emotional
experiences that occurred for them at these sites. There are six of these
memories posted in the work. I've tried to use the confessional writing
style and voice conventions of blog posts and the iconography of the site
echoes the hobo language of pictorial signs developed during the 1930s
depression so those "on the road" could communicate with each other about
opportunities or dangers in certain locations.

The general effect the piece goes for is the immersive resonance I think you
can get reading a story about someone's experience whilst inhabiting the
exact location where that experience occurred. Currently ACMI weren't able
to secure any handsets for people to look at the work before the show opened
last week, so it's presently a bit invisible. You can get an idea of it at
http://madeupstuff.com/drg where it will pop up in a window the same
resolution as the phone screen and look pretty similar. The rest of the pics
on the page document the location of the sites (via maps & photos) and the
stickers that are put up around the sites as guides for those looking for
the locations. There is also a trailer for the piece running on the ACMI
public screens.

Chris Caines




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