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Mobile Projects

'Scape the Hood

'Scape the Hood was conceived and designed as a locative storytelling project for the Digital Storytelling Initiative at KQED for the opening of the 8th annual Digital Storytelling Festival. We convened a group of storytellers, artists, and technologists to envision what this project could be. It became a narrative archeology experiment, combining digital storytelling and emerging technology by overlaying a virtual landscape on the physical world. As originally designed, the audience walks the streets and listens to the neighborhood stories, taking in the sights, sounds, and smells from both the physical and the virtual world.

This video was created by repurposing content collected for the original gps-enabled mobile walk 'Scape the Hood.


For 'Scape the Hood we created three distinct regions:


This image shows how regions are overlayed on a map. Content (digital audio or video) is then tagged to each region using HP's Mobile Bristol software.


Land & History is bounded by Mariposa Street to the North, by 18th Street to the South, Alabama Street to the West, and Florida Street to the East.


As the 1850's map above shows, the mudflats of Mission Bay used to lie to the north and east. To the south, the grasslands and pastures. To the west, is a creek that still runs under our feet. Land and History peels back the layers of time to evoke a place before the overlay of the city; it presents a place and a time when this land was part of the Indian Canyon Nation. This project suggests that the past and the present exist as a two-way conversation.

Mission Village Flea Market starts every Saturday with the phrase, "We come to sell our wares." Started as a neighborhood flea market by CELLSpace a community-based artist collective, the space soon became a place of community empowerment. Every day but Saturday this one square block of city asphalt lays almost dormant behind a locked chain-linked fence.

Project Artaud is bounded by 18th Street to the North, by Mariposa Street to the south, Alabama Street to the west, and Florida Street to the east. In 1925, the American Can Company built the structure that now houses Project Artaud. In 1971, a group of artists moved into the then-vacant building. This project brings the stories of the artists and art organizations from inside the building out onto the street, providing a glimpse of what it is like to live and work within a concentrated community of artists.

Technology
iPaq handheld PDA
Mobile Bristol software
Audacity recording software
Mics and digital cameras
Laptops and desktop computers

Partners
KQED
Hewlett-Packard
Digital Storytelling Festival