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1. 34 North 118 West

   Imagine walking through the city and triggering moments in time. Imagine wandering through a space inhabited with the sonic ghosts of another era. Like ether, the air around you pulses with spirits, voices, and sounds. Streets, buildings, and hidden fragments tell a story. The setting is the Freight Depot in downtown Los Angeles. At the turn of the century Railroads were synonymous with power, speed and modernization. Telegraphs and Railroads were our first cross-country infrastructures, preceding the Internet. From the history and myth of the Railroad to the present day, sounds and voices drift in and out as you walk.

   34 North 118 West plays through a Tablet PC with Global Positioning System card and headphones. GPS tracks your location to determine how the story unfolds as you uncover the early industrial era of Los Angeles.

   (Source: Authors' description from the project site)

   Scott Rettberg - 18.04.2011 - 12:50

2. PING

   PING uses a telephone menu system to distribute active commands to participants who call in using cellular telephones. The choices made by the caller when navigating the telephone system produce directions for physical movement through the city.

   PING comes out of psychogeographical inquiry, which focuses on the study of the effects of the environment on the perception, behaviour and mood of individuals. PING is intended to explore the interface between disparate fields such as situationist thought that focuses on subjective mood, generative psychogeography which introduces algorithms as a way to inspire movement through urban space, existentialism, and the interpolation of digital metaphors onto physical, analog space.

   (Source: Author's description from project site)

   Scott Rettberg - 18.04.2011 - 12:58

3. [Murmur]

   [Murmur], a documentary oral history, records aural stories and memories and geolocates  them exactly. Now in its ninth year, this ample, well-curated archive features stories from twelve cities on four continents and loads quickly on mobile device.

   (Source: Description from the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue)

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 03.02.2012 - 16:17