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dc.contributor.author |
Heyward, ME
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3146-2569
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dc.contributor.editor |
Lieven Bertels SydFest Director, FWSHOP |
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dc.contributor.editor |
John Cheeseman Director, MAG |
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dc.date |
2013-01-05 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Sydney Festival, 2013 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10453/34031
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10453/33246
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10453/34028
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10453/34029
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10453/34030
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dc.description.abstract |
Notes for Walking is a major published and exhibited locative media artwork that ran in the visual arts program of the Sydney Festival from Jan 5-27 incl, 2013. Using location based technologies delivered via smartphones, audiences downloaded a mobile app to discover a set of original video / audio contents that had been electronically tagged to the former naval fortification site at Middle Head. The work incorporated spatial and locative narrative approaches to mobile media content and integrated video and audio materials specifically crafted for mobile, outdoor conditions. A dedicated original app was developed for the work, along with video/audio/textual contents, a gallery installation, multichannel sound installation, dedicated website and social media presence. Notes for Walking was enormously successful during it's exhibition in the Sydney Festival, far exceeding expectations in terms of audience numbers and project reach. ITunes and channel download data recorded over 2,600 downloads, with an estimated 3,500 to 4,000 onsite visitors to Middle Head during January- enormous numbers for a location based artwork. Along with reaching a large audience, Notes for Walking generated multiple media articles due to its combination of original cultural contents and it's location based, mobile delivery mode. While a number of locative projects have delivered and worked with audio, stills and GPS data, very few projects have successfully worked with video content in a location specific mode via smartphone. The work and audience reach arguably proves the viability of location specific approaches in art, media, historical and cultural contexts. |
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dc.format |
Major digital media/ visual arts/ locative artwork and exhibition |
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dc.publisher |
UTS, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney Festival, MOB, Apple |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Sydney Festival, 2013 |
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dc.title |
Notes for Walking |
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dc.type |
Exhibition |
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utslib.location |
Middle Head National Park & Mosman Art Gallery for Sydney Festival |
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utslib.location.activity |
Sydney Festival 2013 program, also http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2013/Free/Notes-for-Walking/ |
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utslib.for |
1902 Film, Television and Digital Media |
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dc.location.activity |
Sydney Festival 2013 program, also http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2013/Free/Notes-for-Walking/ |
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pubs.embargo.period |
Not known |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
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utslib.copyright.status |
closed_access |
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pubs.place-of-publication |
Middle Head National Park & Mosman Art Gallery for Sydney Festival |
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pubs.start-date |
2013-01-05 |
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pubs.rights-statement |
Notes for Walking is a locative media artwork using GPS and augmented reality technologies to explore relationships between spatial narrative, walked practices and locative technologies. Research background This research sits in the field of locative media arts. Martin Reiser argues that an examination of pilgrimage and similar practices can contribute to a deepened understanding of the potentials of locative media. Blast Theory’s locative projects demonstrate that urban spaces can be annotated and disrupted by artistic engagements. Teri Rueb’s artworks show that natural environments can also be meaningfully augmented by locative media and spatialized approaches to narrative. In this context, the artwork explored the research question: in what ways might a deeper understanding of spatial narrative and augmented landscape within pilgrimage practices enrich our approaches to locative media and to modes of engaging audiences in contemporary location-based work? Research contribution This artwork reinterpreted Buddhist go-eika used in the Shikoku pilgrimage– short haiku-like texts recited at speciifc locations, written in second person present-tense and inviting people to engage conceptually and physically with their environment. The success of the work in generating high levels of audience engagement demonstrated the relevance of this creative framework to contemporary practice. Research significance Notes for Walking was exhibited throughout January 2013 in the Visual Arts and Installation program of the Sydney Festival 2013, as the only interactive digital work in the Festival. It featured as one of four works in the Sydney Morning Herald’s ‘Best of the Festival’ and attracted audiences of over 5000 to Middle Head. |
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