Locating Locative Media

Locating Locative Media

Observations from the Mobile Outskirts Workshop, Lofoten Island, Norway
June 15-25, 2004

http://locative.rixc.lv/tcm/workshops/index.cgi?Location_Norway

Joni Taylor + Ryan Griffis


Workshop Participants: Timo Arnall, Kristin Bergaust, Sarawut
Chutiwongpeti, Trine Eidsmo, Amy Franceschini, Ryan Griffis, Jason
Harlan, Sue Mark (Marksearch), Nis ROmer, Laura Beloff, Denis
Saraginovski, Slobodanka Stevceska, Stijn Schiffeleers, Joni Taylor

"Mobile Outskirts" was the second in a series of 6 workshops focusing
on "locative media and transcultural mapping" initiated by RIXC [
http://www.rixc.lv/ ] and Facilitated by the Nordland Kunst 0g
Filmskole [ http://www.kunstfilm.no/main.htm ], Trondheim Electronic
Arts Centre (TEKS)[ http://www.teks.no/ ] and the Kunstakademiet i
Trondheim [ http://www.kit.ntnu.no/ ]. A group of 14 artists, from as
far as North America, Thailand and Macedonia, (plus a brilliant cook
and fearless bus driver) were chosen to "map" and create a
collaborative cartography of the Norwegian island of Lofoten, situated
within the arctic circle.

The landscape itself was breathtaking, the arctic environment and the
constant daylight impossible to ignore, all of which affected everyone
in unique ways.