CONFLUX IS PRODUCED BY GLOWLAB
PROJECT INFORMATION
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| "Imaging Place" is a place-based, virtual reality project, which takes the form of a user navigated, interactive computer program. It combines panoramic photography, video, and three-dimensional digital technologies to investigate and document situations where the forces of globalization are impacting the lives of individuals in local communities. The goal of the project is to develop the technologies, the methodology and the content for truly immersive and navigable narrative, based in real places. The project has been under development since 1997 and includes work from around the world including Sao Paulo Brazil, Kamloops BC Canada, Warsaw Poland, the U.S./Mexico Border, New England, Miami, Kaliningrad Russia, Niagara, and Appalachia. The project borrows freely from the traditions of the Situationist International, using digital technology to document the psychogeographic derive, or drifting walk thru urban zones. The work is projected up to nine by twelve feet in an outdoor Brooklyn location with a pedestal and a mouse that enables Conflux participants and others interact with it. Activated by the click of a mouse button, the interface leads the user from global satellite images to virtual reality scenes on the ground. The user can then navigate an immersive space and excavate the stories of the places, which unfold through non-linear database and multilayered spatial exploration. Although this work is documentary in nature, it seeks to expand the notion of documentary by exploring how place is internalized, mapping the zone as a state of mind. | Gregory L. Ulmer provides theory for the "Imaging Place" project. Funding support from Emerson College, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Small Cities Community-University Research Alliance, and the Museu de Art Contemporånea da Universidade de Sao Paulo. Satellite and Aerial imagery was provided by NASA-GSFC, with data from NOAA GOES, GlobeXplorer, DigitalGlobe, Massachusetts GIS, Florida Department of Transportation, and the City of Kamloops. | ||||
© 2006 Glowlab Productions LLC .
i.a.: Christina Ray .
graphic design: Kurt Bigenho .
programming: Jeffrey Barke