Share your personal stories of the local area and create some novel maps
Mapping Brentford - would you like to take part in creatively documenting and re-imagining Brentford? Share your personal stories of the local area and create some novel maps?
During April and May 2008, investigatory, locative media artist Christian Nold will be out and about to locate your stories and record your emotions. Together you will be working at Watermans and around Brentford using different creative methodologies and technologies to create a new type of map of Brentford! Everyone - young, old and in-between is welcome to take part!
Christian Nold, is recognized world wide for his ‘Bio Mapping’ project, which has received international publicity and been staged in 16 different countries and over 1500 people have taken part in workshops and exhibitions.
The idea is simple Nold gets participants to explore their geographical local area with a fresh eye in order to assess people’s relationships with their environment. If participants feel brave enough they can wear a Bio Mapping tool, which allows the wearer to record their Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) which is a simple indicator of emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographical location. This can be used to plot a map that highlights point of high and low arousal. By sharing this data we can construct maps that visualise where we as a community feel stressed and excited, and end up creating a completely new interpretation of Brentford!
First public workshop April 5, 2008 1pm - 5pm FREE. Bring your local newspaper, favorite story, images and anything you want to put on the Brentford Map.
Or to register your interest for participation in one of the other workshops please call 0208 232 1010 or e-mail: ilze@watermans.org.uk
March 27, 2008