New Brave World - GeoTales workshop

“A guide for getting lost” is a project by / “Un guide pour se perdre” est un projet de Caroline Zeller & Denis Balencourt.

“Ce guide permet de mettre en oeuvre une ballade pour se perdre. Il offre la possibilité de ne plus savoir où l‘on est dans un lieu pourtant familier. Il propose d’emmener un ami en voyage dans sa ville pour qu’il s’y égare.

Pour ce faire vous devrez guider une personne ayant les yeux bandés.
A vous de lui proposer un parcours qui mettra son sens de l’orientation et ses perceptions à l’épreuve.”

During the workshop, Denis and Caroline invited belgian’s writter Valérie Nimal and tried to get her lost in her own city, Brussels… They recorded  her walks with a GPS smart phone and asked her to explain her traject, and to tell when she felt lost.

If you want to get lost in you own town, find the guide here: http://www.seperdre.com/

First GPS tracking trials with IPhone, Garmin Gekko and other smart phones…

All the walks have been recorded on www.everytrail.com, (EveryTrail is a global web2.0 platform for geotagged generated travel content) mostly used to share family and holiday trips. As the tracks are public they can be downloaded by anybody.  Here you will find our first documented walks around iMAL:
http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=134765
http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=134772
http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=134790

Of course, it looks a bit hectic sometimes… but it gives a different approach:

Molenbeek_v1 with pictures

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Denis Balencourt (BE), Musician, developer, VJ, blogger
>www.balencourt.com/blog

Tina Bastajian (US/NL),  film & media artist
>www.kinostudio.org

Alessandro Carboni (IT), Multidisciplinary artist, performer
>www.ooffouro.org

Michel Cleempoel (BE), media artist
>michelcleempoel.net

Dana Cooley (UK), video artist

Thomas Laureyssens (BE), media artist and teacher in Public Space
>www.toyfoo.com

Stéfan Piat (FR/BE), visual & media artist
>www.stefanpiat.net

Ingrid Simon (BE), media artist
>http://www.artefakt.be/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=32

Simona Sofronie (NL), media architect
>www.mediamatic.net/person/22534

Caroline Zeller (FR/BE), student in Urban Space
>carolinezeller.org

First day of GeoTales has featured geolocated projects presentations by  Daniel Belasco Rogers from Plan B (UK/DE), Matthias Stevens (BE), Gwenola Wagon (FR) and Esther Polak (NL).

Daniel in front of his GPS tracks drawings; “The Drawing of my life” (2003-present).

Matthias and Gwenola presenting Moillesullaz 1:1, a locative soundscape installation.

Esther and her project MILK.