Songlines is a communal mapping project based on GPS technologies, collectively creating updated routes across Leicester for walkers and cyclists based on local knowledge. It is supported by the DMU transport group and Leicester City Council. The maps can be accessed and updated on mobile phones. A second phase of the project will place user-generated artworks on routes,designed to be consumed while walking or riding and related to the landscape (poetry, music etc). They will be triggered by user location.
Professor Rieser has always been fascinated by the possibility of creating fragmentary narrative structures and interactive stories using digital technology. This has led him into explorations using mobile sensing and large-scale interactive video experiences. His art practice has been seen around the world including Cannes , Paris; Vienna, Thessaloniki, London, Belfast, Milan and Melbourne. Author of numerous essays on digital art including New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative (BFI/ZKM, 2002), he has recently edited The Mobile Audience, a book on locative art due out this year from Rodopi. He is Joint research Professor between the Institute of Creative Technologies and The Faculty of Art and Design at De Montfort.
Text and photo on this blog entry taken from Amplified Leicester's ning.
Find out more about Amplified Leicester:
http://ampleic.ning.com/
Find out more about Songlines:
http://www.pervasive.org.uk/projects/songlines
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