For the TRIP festival, I consider a journey from Blackpool to Manchester. As I live in Paris, I first experience journey from my bedroom, surfing on web sites and using software like Google Earth or Second Life. I gathered all kinds of information on the places between the two cities. My intention is to explore the stories I collect, and to make a first video on this virtual journey, as if I was there.
After this journey into the virtual, I travel for real. I cross-reference the virtual reality with the actual places. Who is the Blackpool ghost who haunts Blackburn? Has Manchester become like the gray skied Madchester of Second Life? If my avatar flies over Second Life’s Blackpool, how will it be in the real city?
The itinerary is the structure of the narration, onto which are plugged the different stories I gather. How does the virtual journey ...
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For the TRIP festival, I consider a journey from Blackpool to Manchester. As I live in Paris, I first experience journey from my bedroom, surfing on web sites and using software like Google Earth or Second Life. I gathered all kinds of information on the places between the two cities. My intention is to explore the stories I collect, and to make a first video on this virtual journey, as if I was there.
After this journey into the virtual, I travel for real. I cross-reference the virtual reality with the actual places. Who is the Blackpool ghost who haunts Blackburn? Has Manchester become like the gray skied Madchester of Second Life? If my avatar flies over Second Life’s Blackpool, how will it be in the real city?
The itinerary is the structure of the narration, onto which are plugged the different stories I gather. How does the virtual journey influence the montage of the real journey? The video montage lets the different images interact, interlacing two ways of wandering.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2008
- Submitted to ArtBase: Sunday Sep 20th, 2009
- Original Url: http://www.nogovoyages.com/blackpool_manchester.html
- Permalink: http://www.nogovoyages.com/blackpool_manchester.html
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Work Credits:
- Gwenola Wagon, creator
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