Many in the arts and humanities are now interested in areas such as walking art, artists’ maps, locative media, and neogeography. Several related UK events have come and gone this year already, such as: Creativity and Walking: an interdisciplinary colloquium; the TRIP 2008: Territories Reimagined psychogeography festival; Urban Encounters: Photography, Ethnography and the City; ROAM; and the On The Map exhibition. Upcoming in the Autumn is the The Hidden City Symposium.
Those looking for online resources in this area might find three new online texts useful. The first is an excellent article in the latest Artists’ Newsletter about new walking-based art practices, “Wandering: straying from the habitual path” (full-text / 2,000 words / HTML) which usefully takes a UK-based approach. The second is a pamphlet from New York titled Urban computing and its discontents (full-text / 10,000 words / PDF), which seems to be the first substantial contribution by architects to the discussion. And those wondering what neogeography is, in relation to creative practices, should read the UK-oriented “A short enquiry into the origins and uses of the term neogeography” (full-text / 6,000 words / PDF).
Intute: Arts & Humanities also has 50 online resources catalogued on these topics.
Readers who have read this far may also be interested in the free book chapters now available for the forthcoming books: Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City // Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications // and MIT’s Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies and Networked Publics.
