Tracing Spaces: Experimental Locative Media Collaboration

A composite image of (some) of our participants' walks.

I've been working on a locative media recently project in collaboration with digital media creatives Wendy Corbett and Kevin Jenkins. We're in the early days of it at the moment but exhibited it in it's early form at the University of Worcester's recent "A Place, A Space" research day.


We're hoping to evolve the concept further and are in discussions about submitting it into future digital media/arts exhibitions.


In essence, the project shows the digital audio and animated outputs of participants' walks within a test area. In this 'proof of concept' test we used a site at the University of Worcester, recorded walks via GPS and then 'mapped' these onto a test grid - each square of which instigates animations and audio. The project seeks to reflect whether or not you are free to walk where you wish or whether you are constrained in some manner.

Our test space at the University of Worcester.

Screen shot from square 05's animation.