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Peripato Telematikos: Walking, Cartography and Software Art Peripato Telematikos: Walking, Cartography and Software Art Submission for the degree: Doctor of Philosophy School of Communication and the Arts Faculty of Arts, Education, and Human Development Victoria University Greg Giannis 2013 Abstract Peripato Telematikos began with walking as a means to explore and investigate the places and spaces we inhabit and our relationships with them. The research asked how can peripatetic art practices inform the methodologies used by individuals to (re)present their environs and what media art practices would be suitable to support these (re)presentations? The project sought to provide ways for audiences to engage with these walks in real time through their documentation by mobile phones. In order for this to happen I created a platform for the reception and viewing of the walks as they occurred. One interpretation of what was created by the documentation of the walks was what I termed a ‘subjective mapping’ of place. As a result, the final viewing interface was constructed with the intent that it would support the creation and viewing of subjective mappings. In order to understand how the different elements of walking, documentation and interface could be combined I conducted a number of planned, staged walks with groups and individuals using strategies discovered from the research into peripatetic and media art practices. This developed my understanding of how mobile phones with media capture and transmission capabilities, could be used to document the walks in real time. Media collected by the mobile phones was sent to an internet application prototype as it was collected so that the audience could engage with the walkers as the events took place. The use of mobile phones facilitated the live documentation of the walks and the infrastructure created was able to provide the technology to deliver sms and mms messages from the walkers’ phone to the viewing platform. An experimental interface prototype was developed to support the spatial organisation of mapping the content and has been successfully used in many workshops, staged walks and has been presented at conferences. This process enabled the participants to discover something new about their environs through walking, documenting, and mapping the walks. Individually, the walks contributed to an understanding of autobiography in and of a particular place. Peripato Telematikos comprises a website (http://www.peripato.net) where the documentation of the walks can be viewed, and an exegesis that discusses the research and development of the concepts of the project. ii I, Greg Giannis, declare that the PhD thesis entitled 'Peripato Telematikos: Walking, Cartography and Software Art', is no more than 30,000 words in length including quotes and exclusive of bibliography, references and endnotes. This thesis contains no material that has been submitted previously, in whole or in part, for the award of any other academic degree or diploma. Except where otherwise indicated, this thesis is my own work. Signature Date 18th December 2013 iii Acknowledgments Sincere thanks to my supervisors, Professor Mark Minchinton, Dr. Judith Walton and Dr. Marsha Berry, my family for their support and patience and my colleagues for their assistance. Sincere thanks to Dr. John Hannon and Dr. Bronwyn Cran for their assistance with the exegesis, and Dr. Stefan Schutt for his proof reading and feedback. Many thanks to those that assisted with and participated in the workshops, including Jeanette and David Hutchinson, Pia Armitage, the staff at Ur Studio, Adelaide, and the Apple University Consortium. Thanks to the ISEA 2008 and 2011 selection committees in Singapore and Istanbul respectively, for the opportunity to present the work at the conferences, and to the galleries that have exhibited the work: Umbrella Gallery, Townsville, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide, The Australian Network for Art and Technology for touring the work to regional galleries around Australia from 2008 to 2010. Museum of Image and Sound, Sao Paulo (2009) and Rio de Janeiro (2010), Brazil The Captain, Aphrodite and Theodore for their invaluable assistance and care in Greece. Greg Giannis July, 2012 iv Table of Contents Abstract .................................................................................................... ii Table of Contents ....................................................................................... v Table of Figures ........................................................................................ vi Introduction .............................................................................................. 7 Peripatetic Art Practices ............................................................................ 13 Peripatetic Art and Mapping .................................................................... 18 Cartography ............................................................................................ 31 Concerns of Cartographic Discipline ......................................................... 37 The Walks ............................................................................................... 42 Reservoir ............................................................................................. 43 Greece ................................................................................................ 51 Collective Walks .................................................................................... 63 Software ................................................................................................. 80 Software Development .......................................................................... 80 Software Art ......................................................................................... 81 Interface .............................................................................................. 93 Critical Evaluation of the Interface. ..................................................... 102 Interface Research ............................................................................ 107 Conclusion ............................................................................................. 109 Appendix 1 Logging On ............................................................................ 117 Appendix 2 Navigating The Interface .......................................................... 119 Appendix 3 Townsville Workshop Review .................................................... 120 Appendix 4 VITTA Letter .......................................................................... 124 Appendix 5 The History Of Agiassos ........................................................... 126 Appendix 6 ZUI Research ......................................................................... 127 Appendix 7 Interface Research .................................................................. 136 Appendix 8 Usabilty Tests ......................................................................... 143 Appendix 9 The Software/Hardware System ................................................ 154 Bibliography ........................................................................................... 161 v Table of Figures Figure 1 - Pigadakia Mud Map .................................................................... 52 Figure 2 - Constructed Harp ....................................................................... 54 Figure 3 - Class Diagram ........................................................................... 91 Figure 4 - Exposé and ZUI ......................................................................... 95 Figure 5 - Planning Wall and ZUI ................................................................ 97 Figure 6 - The Xerox Star Workstation - the first GUI. .................................. 137 Figure 7 - XanaduSpace with camera rotated 90 degrees .............................. 140 Figure 8 - System Diagram ....................................................................... 159 vi Introduction I am a Greek-Australian artist who has a diverse practice, experimenting with many mediums and in many contexts. Past projects include photographic based work, interactive installations, public projections, net.art, participatory works, collaborations with living creatures (e.g. snails) and generative art. I have a background in software design engineering, but moved away from this in the mid 1990s to pursue my interest in art. Since then, I have exhibited and presented papers at many media art exhibitions and several festivals in Australia and overseas. A thread that recurs with my work is the utilisation of telecommunications systems and software writing to engage the public in participatory works. This research project applies artistic practice to the research and development of a multi-disciplinary telematic work to explore walking-as-art in order to create representations of place, or subjective mappings, through the integration of the mediums of cartography and the mapping of walks, software design, and media art. The research has built upon past works by combining and syncretising in order to create a work that spans disciplines and practices. Peripato Telematikos, the title of this work, is a play on the words ‘peripatetic’ and ‘telematic’. Peripato is the Modern Greek term for a ritual evening stroll. These walks were very strictly timed and regulated, and provided the only opportunity for some (especially young) people to socialise, or be in the wider world. Peripatetic has been in English
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