ultimo-segundo

The digital mirror of the cities we inhabit, reconfigured.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

Our way of perceiving and inhabiting urban space has always been modified according to the tools we use to navigate it. In the same way that the use of GPS generated a cognitive debt in the drivers’ retention of the street layout, and therefore their ability to imagine possible routes.

In the case of pedestrians, and obligatory consumers of public transport, three-dimensional maps with street photography (GSW) allowed us to observe a space before inhabiting or transiting it.

This ability to modify our perception of the space we inhabit is frequently ignored when considering new media since it is normally a concept that we tend to forget about the functional tools of everyday use.

Being able to inhabit a space virtually, in an exploratory way and prior to finding ourselves in that place for the first time, inevitably transforms the way in which we experience the journey to that place.

Could it be that it also transforms the internal experience at the moment of inhabiting it?

The intention of this work is to reconfigure the images that we use to orient ourselves and navigate everyday space, into a different space-time structure that we encounter in its formal use as a tool.

Literature

FRICKE, Christiane. (1999). “Nuevos Medios”.

AIRA, César. (2013). “Sobre el arte contemporáneo”. en Sobre el arte contemporáneo.