literary places, hybrid ecologies and narrative pollution

Anatole Pierre Fuksas

Literary Places, Hybrid Ecologies

and Narrative Pollution

‘Ubiquitous Computing’ or ‘Pervasive Computing’

Proliferation of digital devices in natural environments.

Locative Media

Concept has been introduced by

Karlis Kalnins at the RIXC Centre

For New Media Culture «in order to

distinguish the latter creative

explorations of the medium from

the corporate hype surrounding

location-based services».

Geotagging or Geocoding or Locative Tagging

Geographical identification metadata (as latitude and longitude

coordinates, altitude, bearing, place names, zip codes) tagging texts,

images, video, multimedia contents delievered through websites, RSS

feeds or whatever.

Narrative Tags

Engraved epigraphies, boards, panels, podcasts, geotagged media delievered on

locative portable devices providing exposition about environmental features

as rocks, forests, paths, buildings.

By conveying informations about events related to a given place, such markers

interfere with actual perception of natural or urban landscapes.

Ecological approach to storytelling

processing of narrative references relies on resonance and mirror

matching, conveying embodiment of corresponding sensory experiences, related interoceptive responses and

consequent actions.

(http://ecologyofthenovel.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/the-ecology-of-the-novel/)

Mobile Literature

Windmills

Don Quijote de la ManchaCAPITULO VIII

Del buen suceso que el valeroso don Quijote tuvo en la espantable y jamás imaginada aventura de los molinos de viento, con otros sucesos dignos de felice recordación

Geotagged Literary Placeshttp://www.flickr.com/groups/geoliterature/

Literary Travels

Hybrid Environment (temptative definition)

Natural ecosystem enriched by textual, audio, video or

multimedia contents potentially interfering with

sensory appraisal of environmental features so as to be directly or indirectly

related to them.

Hybrid Perception (temptative definition)

individual experience of a given landscape emerging from

combination and mutual interaction of perceived

evironmental features, and textual, audio, visual or

multimedia references.

Hybrid Ecologies(VERY temptative definition)

Interactions taking places among organisms and between organisms and other inanimate items in Hybrid Environments, implying

Hybrid Perception as a peculiar explorative strategy.