Thur 29th Sept to Sun 2nd Oct
“Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling. Street names must speak to the urban wanderer like the snapping of dry twigs, and little streets in the heart of the city must reflect the times of day, for him, as clearly as a mountain valley”. Walter Benjamin
“Imagination augments the values of reality”. Gaston Bachelard
Herein Newcastle attempts to address the danger of Augmented Reality in homogenizing and rationalizing spaces. Using vignettes of images, sound, and poetry via QR-codes to navigate the mythic spaces and poetic encounters of the city Josh Harle attempts to reactivate the imagination as a faculty through which we experience our surroundings.
Participants require a mobile phone with a QR-code reader app (free), and web access.
Artists
Josh Harle
Venue
Outdoors
