CRITICAL GPS: Public Interventions in Virtual Space

Project Leads: Christina Worner, Joana Pestana and Max Ryan

Number of participants:  16

Duration: 4 days

Project Outline:

This workshop will invite participants to investigate the new opportunities arising from the overlay of the virtual upon the physical. They can choose how they contribute to political and technological discussions through the recording and altering of public spaces and discussion of what it means to then share or disseminate these spaces online.

Working in groups, participants will develop a virtual space as a reaction to a physical one of their choosing. The workshop outcomes will be archived and hosted together on a website, acting as an exhibition of virtual simulations/facsimiles.

Keywords:

Simulation, simulacra, ownership, institutional critique, experience, GPS, virtual, augmented, immersion, criticism, digital activism, accountability,

Timetable:

Day 1
– An initial presentation about the workshop & allocation of groups.
– Short brief where students change or effect an environment temporarily and record the results as a virtual space.
– Archiving of the results online.Day 2 (‘Homework day’)– Groups search out places to critically engage with.
– Groups intervene/alter, explore and record their chosen locations in digital form.
Day 3
– Extracting the data generated by street view, students will be invited to discuss possible outcomes and edit or amend their chosen space through 3D software
– Working with recordings of the space participants will produce their public interventions.

Day 4
– Sharing of the group outcomes on the online workshop platform and discussion of findings and results.