locative media
In this collection
Highlights
Topogestures: Reflections on walking performance, poetry and technology
This presentation reflects on the concept of topogesture which is a methodological distillation emerging from the author’s artistic practice over the last decade, within the remedial convergences of walking performance, poetry, and technology. Etymologically viewed, such a neologism is created as an oscillation between place (topos) and gesture (cheironomia), aiming to underscore how the artistic act invests meaning into and derives meaning from
• The Tides of Our Tears
The Tides of Our Tears is a trail of seven augmented reality poems along the Thames, made with Invisible Dust and UCL scientists. Accessed via QR codes, the works reflect on floods, memory, and our evolving, fragile relationship with water.
Sunrise Walks – Augmented Topography
Sunrise Walks – Augmented Topography is a walking performance and experimental archive. Three sunrise photos taken in Paris, enhanced with augmented reality data, question the relationship between light, the celestial cycle, and the body's inscription within space.
The Walking Assembly 2026
The Walking Assembly 2026 (9–13 May 2026) is a nomadic, field-based gathering in Catalonia for artists, researchers, educators, and collectives exploring walking as embodied, relational, and ecological knowledge. Moving from conference to assembly, it proposes learning without teaching, where knowledge emerges through shared walking, presence, and collective experience. From Salt to Albanyà and along the Muga River, the Assembly foregrounds water, movement, attention, walking and being together in place as pedagogical forces.
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Wanderers – 2021
Created by Roberto Azaretto, Jiffer Harriman and Teri Rueb Five planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were known to the ancients. To the unaided eye, these planets appear starlike. However, the planets moved relative to the stars. For this reason they were called wandering stars. Our word “planet” comes from the Greek word planetes, meaning “wanderer.” Smithsonian
Walking pieces
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Articles on WLC
Reading Water – Open call for emerging artists and young creatives in UK and Egypt
Join this program for free!Reading Water invites young people (in their twenties or early thirties) in the UK and Egypt to respond to water issues by connecting local experiences of their place, sharing them, and transforming them in collective answers with digital tools, emerging from a contemplative ecology. It aims to mobilize action by raising
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Brand new coastal walking app entered for award | National Oceanography Centre
A brand-new free app which combines poetic audio with augmented reality visuals to connect people with the Penzance and Dawlish sea fronts, has been Source: Brand new coastal walking app entered for award | National Oceanography Centre
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Exploring eco dyes and plant process
The author's 30+ year creative journey reflects a unique, experimental path in art, blending traditional and digital media, particularly video. Engaging with community, nature, and technology, their work evolves, incorporating innovative methods and collaborations with First Nations organisations and local artists.
How Two Musicians Transformed New York into an Audio Augmented Reality Concert Experience.
From Central Park to Lincoln Center, step into a secret soundworld of original compositions.“Being able to understand someone else’s story is what really drives this piece. I hope that listeners are encouraged to be more curious in their lives, whateve...
Elspeth Penfold 2020-10-03 12:30:00
Mapping : Locative media +Literature . Here some Saturday fun for those of you who like puzzles. Check out our map A Different LENS, linked below.1. Link authors to places listed in this image 2. See if you can work out the locations of the artworks us...
Events
Info session Reading Water – A Contemplative Ecology of the Rivers Nile and the Thames
An open info session for all interested to participate, and all others interested, to find out more about the project for young people in the UK and in Egypt, with locative storytelling, group ecological restoration and art projects, during COP27.
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