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The Broadside of a Yarn
The Broadside of a Yarn is a multi-modal performative pervasive networked narrative attempt to chart fictional fragments of new and long-ago stories of near and far-away seas with naught but a QR reader and a hand-made map of dubious accuracy. This project may perhaps be best understood as an assemblage of interrelated narrative elements mediated across a continuum forms - a collection of stories, a folio of broadsides, or an unbound atlas of impossible maps composed of a combination of historical sources, interspersed with "found" images, quotations from well known sailors’ yarns, and my own drawings and photographs, and fiction. These printed maps are embedded with QR codes link mobile devices to computer-generated narrative dialogues which may then serve as scripts for poli-vocal performances, and/or suggest a series of imprecise pervasive performative walks. This project is, in a Situationist sense, a wilfully absurd endeavour. How can I, a displaced native of rural Nova Scotia (New Scotland), perform the navigation of a narrative route through urban Edinburgh (Old Scotland)?
Elisabeth Nesheim - 24.08.2012 - 12:09
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Absurd in Public
The Pictogram project is a commision for the Remediating the Social Conference, and creatively interprets the language of street signage to highlight how communities form spontaneous social codes. The ideal street sign has an unambiguous meaning based on a standard icon. Pictogram signs, on the other hand, depict curious mashups of icons and invite passersby to contribute their own explanation of what the signs represent. The physical pictogram sign consists of two panels, joined at the sides to reference the look of a bound book. One panel includes a Quick-Response (QR) code pointing to a Web site where users can type in their interpretation of the sign’s meaning. Once they have submitted their response, users may read what others have contributed. Throughout the conference, submitted responses may change as attendees are influenced by what others have written. The Pictogram has a real-world and digital-world existence, whose meaning is made and shared somewhere between the two worlds. Street signs manage public space. They tell people how to act: No Parking. They inform of distant places: Hospital 300m.
Elisabeth Nesheim - 27.08.2012 - 11:19
