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post walking – Babak Fakhamz... 31 Mar, 2023

In which I go for a walk

In which I go for a walk
A significant number of significant events in my life have been the result of chance occurrences. One such occurrence, though the resulting event is still waiting to be significant, is a call for proposals which my WLC colleague Andrew Stuck sent over late last year, for a 1-month residency in northern Sweden. I responded with …

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BabakFakhamzadeh.com

Personal website of Babak Fakhamzadeh. Babak Fakhamzadeh is a creative technologist, digital artist, and researcher whose work focuses on location-based storytelling, walking art, and participatory media. With a background in mathematics and decades of experience in web and mobile development, he has worked internationally with NGOs, media organisations, and cultural institutions to build digital tools that connect people with place, history, and public space. His projects often combine technology, urban exploration, and narrative, using mobile media and interactive platforms to encourage people to engage with their surroundings in new ways. He is a co-founder of the global walking-arts platform walk · listen · create. Fakhamzadeh is also the creator and maintainer of the Dérive app, a mobile tool that encourages exploratory urban walking inspired by psychogeography. Across his artistic and technical work, he explores how digital tools can reshape how people experience cities, uncover hidden histories, and reclaim agency in navigating the urban environment.
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GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

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