SUR-VIV-ALL
Inspirado no livro “Survival”, de Margaret Atwood, André Lemos lançou novo projeto de GPS writing em Edmonton, Canadá, onde está atualmente realizando seu pós-Dr:
The idea came from the crossing of my reading of the book by Margaret Atwood, “Survival,” with my research on locative media, city, mobility and new technologies. In the book “Survival”, the author defends the thesis that the relationship with the survival is a pattern in the imagination of Canadian literature, both of prose and poetry: fighting the forces of nature, the natives, and the animals. . So, from my research on locative media, I plan to “write” the city of Edmonton (on 40 km) with a GPS Tracker, and mapping some hotspots along the way (using iStumbler, Loki, Google Maps, Google Earth…). For the first GPS draw take a look at Jeremy Wood work. What I was looking for here, in addition to entertainment, was a way to get closer to the city, to understand and feel their spaces, their dynamics. But, basically, a way to see my “survival” here.
The word “SURVIVAL” has been changed to “SUR-VIV-ALL,” trying to create different meanings in English and French, the official languages Canada, and in Portuguese, my mother language. In French we can see or inferred “SUR VIV (R) E / VIE …”, something like an excess and a lack of life, just when survival is the least and last resort of existence. In Portuguese, “VIVA”, claiming to live, an imperative. In English “survival”, has its original meaning, plus the “ALL” that calls for a social dimension, the public and community. What is at stake here is the imagination of the city, the relationship with extreme temperatures, the use of cars as standard displacement, the empty spaces, the invisibility of electronic processes (written by the GPS is invisible as well the hotspots Wi – Fi) on the actual structures in the midst of public space. We have photos, videos that attempt to capture this relationship, but with the thread to link with the outside world, the nature. The “Waypoints” on the map will show (as soon as we fished the data transfer) this multimedia content, as well as Wi-Fi hotspots open (we’ve accessed some networks on the street) or closed.
André Lemos
CREDITS
Project – André Lemos
Photos, Videos, Wardriving and GPS Tracking – André Lemos, Mari Fiorelli and Rob Shields
Maps and Blog – André Lemos and Mari Fiorelli
1 comment
Bom, vamos ao primeiro comentário:
Antes de mais nada, parabéns Del pelo blog. Iniciativa que vai trazer muito conteúdo interessante para todos nós.
Sobre o post, tenho pensado bastante sobre mobilidade, redes sociais, acessos sem fios e outras dinâmicas de interatividade que serão os padrões das verdadeiras conexões.
O que eu entendo por conexão não é o link de internet e sim a presença constante na rede pelos indivíduos.
Estamos construíndo, de forma muito semelhante a estrutura atômica da vida, uma estrutura de rede física e social onde os “núcleos” de acesso são circunscritos por “agentes móveis em órbita”.
O GPS draw, ou qualquer outro tipo de reprodução gráfica da malha conectiva é a tentativa (sempre humana) de achar um significado ou um elemento inteligível no caos.
A conectividade constante e a mobilidade é uma nova vida que pulsa nas veias das cidades.