Inspiration of the Week: Geocaching

Geocaching is an online project which encourages audience participation.

https://www.geocaching.com/

I stumbled on this site whilst searching for various tracking methods as research for my final project. The reason that I looked into it more was because I want to make my piece include something to do with maps and have an element of audience participation. 

https://www.geocaching.com/

How geocaching works is that participants can either “hide or seek” a geocache. The main point of it is once a geocache has been hidden, seekers may try to find it by using GPS coordinates and once found sign the logbook.

https://www.geocaching.com/

I really love the idea behind this project as it can get everyone on the planet involved, which even means that you can participate even when you are on your travels.

https://www.geocaching.com/

Projects like these remind me of the Situationists and their theory of derive and psychogeography as both of these look at the environment around us and encourage us to participate within it more rather than “drifting”. I think this method is particularly fun and engaging.

https://www.geocaching.com/

The site even offers the chance for users to attend “Geotours” which are tours around unique areas designed to get users introduced to new locations whilst adding the idea of geocaching.

https://www.geocaching.com/

NB – all photographs here have been taken from the original Geocaching site:
https://www.geocaching.com/
I do not own any of the pictures on this post.

So that’s all for now, I’ll update you all on my project work at the start of next week I’ve jut been a little snowed under with an essay to write and a PDP hand in, but all is well now and I am back on track (I hope 😛 )

byyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeee
Róisín- x

Inspiration of the Week – Binding Sky

What I’ve looked at this week is a collaborative project between three artists: Andrea Polli, Venaya Yazzie and Esther Belin which is called Binding Sky.

https://vimeo.com/82226072

This project looks at how the environment around Navajo areas is changing due to the emissions coming from coal Power Plants. This sparked my interest as there are many things that I am considering for my final third year project and this combine a few of them.

http://bindingsky.org/

You are invited to follow a route that begins at a brick bench at Dine College Shiprock in New Mexico. You can download the app or get CDs, audio transcripts and maps from the front desk so that you can follow the route set out by the artists and listen to interviews of tribal members who talk of the spiritual and physical health of the Navajo people and how the coal-fired power plants have affected them.

https://vimeo.com/82226072

https://vimeo.com/82226072

This projects has elements of politics, the environment and ideas surrounding heritage and identity. These are all things that I am considering looking into for my degree show piece. I am considering journeying around certain areas of Scotland placing/ doing pieces of artwork and am looking at putting the idea of Scottish Identity throughout it.

https://vimeo.com/82226072

The thing that I like about this project is that it is interactive and also educational and gets people to think. I also want my work to have these elements to it, so it is great to see it executed in a fashion that works and so I think this will help to germinate my ideas.

https://vimeo.com/82226072

https://vimeo.com/82226072

NB – all photographs here have been taken from these sites which the work is featured:
http://bindingsky.org/
https://vimeo.com/82226072

I do not own any of the pictures on this post.

Full credit given to the artists, here’s links to their websites:
www.yazzgrlart.com
www.bitterwater.weebly.com
www.andreapolli.com

See you next time 🙂
byyyyeeeeeeee
Róisín -x