Remote exhibition

Distributed Media

Vince Dziekan
V. Travels In The Netherworld (2006)

PDA, digital video & positional markers distributed throughout the Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Tasmania.

Launch a simulation of the PDA prototype. 256 kbps DSL or higher internet connection recommended.

A specific artwork has been created by the artist/curator to direct and focus the exploration of this broader ‘ecology’ of spaces. V. Travels In The Netherworld has been developed as a multi-modal artwork that experiments with the use of emerging mobile and pervasive technologies for artistic purpose. As a locative artwork, it has been designed to explore the dimensionality of different places and times: here and now, then and there. The work promotes the mobility and agency of the viewer by linking distributed media contents to a series of locational markers that situate this narrative across the ‘in-between’ spaces of the exhibition. By alluding to the conventional role of a Gallery Guide or ‘Companion’, the psychogeographic relation of these different real and virtual spaces is suggested by the convergence of ‘tagged’ representational content with the place-based context in which these episodes are encountered.

While designed to be linked by Wi-Fi to the Internet, this prototype version will run exclusively from a hand-held device that is available during the exhibition; see gallery staff for more information.