ANNOUNCING
WalkSpace for the iPhone
WalkSpace is an alternative walking art app for the iPhone to let you navigate the city in a new and unexpected way.
A selection of cultural and everyday routes are remapped to your current location, these routes range from cultural trails such as routes from James Joyce's Ulysses to individual daily walks. Walks can be shared with photos and route maps and users can add their own routes to the app.
WalkSpace is designed to take you places you mightn't otherwise go, to see familiar places in a new light opening a window to chance encounters and experiences. The app is inspired by the Situationist derive and acts as a locative media version of the classic experimental technique for re-enchanting the city.
WalkSpace is a locative media art project by Conor McGarrigle and is now available as a free download from the appstore.
WalkSpace
www.walkspace.org
Available from the appstore
http://is.gd/gIeCI
Conor McGarrigle
www.conormcgarrigle.com
Link:
http://www.walkspace.org
Conor McGarrigle holds a Bsc from UCD an MA Art in the Digital World from The National College of Art & Design Dublin. He is currently a PhD candidate at GradCAM, The Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media, and a visiting lecturer at NCAD.
He has been creating net art since 1999 and is well known for works such as Spook... (2000 -2002) and The Bono Probability Positioning System (2006) which have crossed into mainstream internet culture garnering large audiences in the process. Recent projects include Joyce Walks which re-enacts Bloomsday as an ongoing series of performative interventions which have taken place in over 70 cities worldwide and the mobile phone apps NAMAland and WalkSpace..
His work has been exhibited in Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Denmark, UK, USA , Brazil, Japan, Korea and Australia. Notable exhibitions include EV+A, SIGGRAPH, Fundacio La Caixa Barcelona, St Etienne Biennale, FILE Brazil, The Boston Cyberarts Festival, Seoul Net Festival, Art on the Net Tokyo, Fundacio Miro and the Werkleitz Biennale. In 2007 he was an invited participant in the Documenta 12 Magazine project.
He is a member of the organising committee of the Dublin Art & Technology Association (DATA) and an artist Director of the Irish Visual Artists Rights Association (IVARO).
Michael Connor