Cross
media artist Jan Hatt-Olsen
Necessary
conditions for an urban wiki project, based on the experience from the urban
wiki’s in praxis and the urban wiki workshop during the Metropolis Laboratory
2008.
How
do you envisage the audience interaction or participation in urban wiki –
The interaction is quite easy, like
editing Wikipedia, but it has to be learned. It’s also a conscious interaction.
People, who interact, shall actively want to interact.
It’s therefore necessary that people now
they interactive can edit projection, when they are out on the square or
anywhere with internet access,
The urban wiki shall when is fully
functional have a community connected to it, which can develop a culture for
how to use and navigate in the augmented urban space. Before this community is
developed, the burocrats and administrators have this function. The more the
community is functioning by it self, the more can the burocrats and
administrators go into their primary function being the same as burocrats and
administrator in connected to a square in physical urban space.
It is therefore good with participation in
the communities before the event. It could be done by establishing the urban
wiki – Copenhagen on the net before the event in the Copenhagen Metropolis
During the pre period when it only exist on the net there could be information
about how to join the community and workshops connected the Urban wiki -
Copenhagen Metropolis.
When the event start I envisage that the
people who already know about the urban wiki, will use it and pass on knowledge
to friend and other interested. (you can learn to use it in under a minute)
How
would you try to spark the audience’s interest or initiate dialogue with the
audience in the urban space?:
It could be an idea to have a performance
aspect, where (you could call theme wiki pilots) would walk around with laptop,
pda or mobile phone, use the urban wiki and create attention about the fact
that everyone can do it.
It could also be an idea to start the
dialogue with the public, already before the event, before the wiki is
projected into locations i the Copenhagen Metropolis and the Urban Wiki – Copenhagen
Metropolis is starting.
Before that the wiki could exist as wiki
on the net, which people could use to address the theme water. Thereby being
aware of the wiki, before it becomes an urban wiki in the Copenhagen Metropolis
(both a locative media and a net media)
What
infrastructure in the
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would need the projection areas, with characteristics outlined in
urbanwiki-copenhagenmetropolis.pdf
workshop presentations
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I
would need working space for the workshops.
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I
would need PR support to integrate the urban wiki, with the general debate about
water, political, environmental, artistic, in the urban planning etc.
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I
would need some volunteers to perform as wikipilots during the event, so that
the public on the square and by passers will be aware of that they themselves
can interact with the urban wiki projections. If the installation are up for a
longer period there will after a time now longer be a need for the performative
push ( the wiki pilots)
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What
time slots of the screen infrastructure would you need, to run your project
successfully? (a whole
day, a certain repeated time slot per day, etc.): I would need an hour pr. day
so that the dialogue will have time to develop, alongside the urban wiki
workshops.
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What
are you experiences with (multimedia) projects in public space, or why are you
interested in working with urban screens?: I have experience from the two urban wiki’s urban
artscape – furesø www.urbanwiki.net
, November , December , 2007 January 2008
and and wikivollsmose April 2008 www.wikivollsmose.net Earlier in 2004 with the City as a Collection
of Poetry www.lyrik-installation.dk/Vaerloese and in several workshops.
My interest is to enchant and augment
urban space. I wish in that way to create a richer and more living urban space
and making doors and bridges in the invisible architecture. In the borders,
between cultures, between places, between the imagination and physical urban
space and between the private space and public space.
My interest in new media goes back to a
charter for street creativity ‘The Cinescape Street Creativity Charter’ I
presented in 2005 at City Living – Living City | the 6’th European Biennial of
Town and Town Planners. www.urbanartscape.org/streetcreativitycharter.htm
The urban wiki’s are closely connected to
that charter. The strength of multimedia connected to computers and screens is
the high degree of flux, everything is in change or potential change.
The problems with small screens are there
closed existence in physical urban space. Only a very few persons often only
one can look at a small screen at a time. The consequence is that it is not a
shared encounter with a part of urban space as a whole. When I am talking about
a shared encounter with urban space as a whole, I mean that all people in urban
space will be part of the encounter, in different ways of cause but it will be
something they all can see or here. This is achieved with large screens, which
therefore create an urban space fundamentally different from an urban space
without screen or with small screens.
The new type of urban space created by
large screns, is an augmented, enchanted urban space and this is my primary
focus of interest as a research and creation through artistic practices.