by Alison Sant
917 Bryant Street
San Francisco CA, 94103
U.S.A.
Tel: +415 865 9500
Fax: +415 865 9502
info [@] tracemap [dot] net / ali [@] alisant [dot] net
http://www.alisant.net
http://www.tracemap.net
KEYWORDS
wireless networks, locative media, mapping, mobile devices, public art, Hertzian space, WiFi
ABSTRACT
Digital networks and wireless technologies are radically reforming the contemporary notions of urban place. As network technologies move away from their hardwired roots, they are activating an urban dynamic that is no longer based on referencing static landmarks, but on a notion of the city in which spatial references become events. These developments imply a changing pattern of urban reference in which invisible boundaries of connectivity alternately thicken or marginalize the urban territories they overlay. *TRACE* is a collaborative project, by artist Alison Sant and programmer Ryan Shaw, that examines the layering of physical space with the on and off zones of the wireless network. The project seeks to blend the corporeal experience of the city with the invisible qualities of the network, creating a narrative mapping of the hybrid space between them. This mapping is one that challenges purely static notions of public space to promote a temporal logic of the city that reflects the fluctuating character of the wireless network.
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