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Track: Metaphors and a sense of belonging in a networked field ofvision.

Blewbury Postcards by EWB pre-1945

Abstract:

Does the viewing and deployment of traditional art practices within augmented

reality locative multimedia applications alter the relationship between creator,

viewer and traditional notions of an artistic sense of place?

TRACK is a multimedia/fine arts project which examines the wider implications of

disrupting conventional fine art notions of landscape by using pervasive media

on location in a particular area loaded with art historical and poetical signifiers.

Through art practice and research in local history archives it will examine how

the disruption of traditional modes of confined or static viewing may subvert

or divert traditional fine art practice and historical explication. This will be

contrasted with traditional literary conventions of a sense of place.

Drawing on contemporary new media and locative arts practice and theory

especially Coynes Tuning of Place (Coyne, 2010) and Kiellers City of The

Future (Kieller BFI, 2008) this paper investigates notions of english rural idyll

mythopoeic and place-myth (Shields, 1991) in the creation of a specific

Berkshire artists retreat (The Blewbury Artists, 1880-1999). It will examine how

this may be re-conceived or re-investigated through a pervasive media lens.

This is a work in progress and conclusions will be gathered from extensive field-testing of devices and further local history archival investigation.

The presentation will deliver findings so far and make tentative conclusions.

Keywords: Place-myth, mythopoeic, artists colonies, hand-held devices,

pervasive media, place, landscape painting, drawing, land-writing, deep

mapping.

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