2mph

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Made by	Emily Conrad
Made for	Final Project Seminar Spring '05 with Jake Barton
Short description	An audio installation of recordings taken from urban walks investigating personal impressions of space.
Displayed at (Venues)	Thesis Spring 2005
Homepage Location	http://emilyconrad.com/2mph.html
Additional Keywords	audio installation, space vs place, locative media, contingent object, psychogeography, serendipity.

Description

I intend to explore the use of cell phones as other than a means for person to person conversation or text messaging and will build a scenario in which the phone is used as a wireless broadcasting microphone. This exploration will be done in the context of psychogeography and personal experience so that the result is a collection of qualitative information of the urban environment. In 2mph, narrative is used to create a verbal infrastructure of the city, particular to the narrarator's perspective.
I suspect that in the near future, either the quality of cell phones or the accessibility of PDAs with microphones will increase, as will the rate of transfer for large internet files, openining up more possibilities for alternative recording devices and audio documentation through the internet.

References

Books
Bachelard, Gaston, "The Poetics of Space"
Buskirk, Martha,"The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art"
Gould, White "Mental Maps"
Hall, Edward T., "The Hidden Dimension"
Knabb, Ken "Situationist International Anthology"
Lynch, Kevin, "The Image of the City"
Montfront, Nick "Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction"
Solnit, Rebecca,"Walking"
Taun, Yi-Fu, "Space and Place"
Vidler, Anthony, "Warped Space"
Virilio, Paul, "Open Sky"

Web Sites
The Pervasive and Locative Arts Network,
http://openplan.org
Glowlab,
http://glowlab.com
Locative Network,
http://locative.net
Probiscus
http:/urbantapestries.org
http://proboscis.org.uk/sonicgeographies/
Artists
Vito Acconci
Janet Cardiff
Rebecca Horn