“Between technological precision and artistic ambiguity in Locative Art” presented by Santos

Symposium:

• ISEA2018: 24th International Symposium on Electronic Art

• Hybridisation and Purity (Long Papers)

• Between technological precision and artistic ambiguity in Locative Art

• Vanessa Sonia Santos

Venue(s):

• DUT City Campus, Durban, South Africa

• ISEA 2018

  This paper discusses how ambiguity can mean a virtue rather than a problem in Locative Art domain. Pervasive media, which has the clinical precision as one of its key features, can reduce the understanding of location to a pure residue of a Cartesian coordinate system. The author argues that ambiguity, when applied to good effect in artworks supported by such monitoring
  systems, can encourage new mapping metaphors, which gives less emphasis to the point-to-point correspondence of the digital tracking. To orient the discussion, this paper focuses on Chronica Mobilis example. The qualitative analysis of this experimental artwork describes how it generates a dialogue between the determinism of geo-spatial technologies and the freedom of participants’ creative and performative actions.

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