In Fall 2005, Art Interactive is conducting a nine-week-long experiment. We have invited artists affiliated with Glowlab, a network of psychogeographers, to use the Central Square neighborhood as the site of their research and fill the exhibition space with the results of their investigations. PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY, a term coined by the Situationist International in the 1950s and appropriated by contemporary artists, is used to describe projects that produce affect in relation to the geographic environment. Rather than making maps in the traditional geographic sense, these artists utilize maps and geography to conduct located experiments with (among other things) people, trash, bikes, clothes, the sky and the gallery space itself. Often making use of mobile technologies and existing in the hybrid spaces of the Internet and the physical world, their projects produce new understandings of location and identity as shifting, fluid, singular and irreducible.

Glowlab, a Brooklyn-based psychogeography network presents Open Lab at Art Interactive. During this festival and exhibition curated by Christina Ray, more than twenty artists will research the effects of the urban environment on emotion and behavior by leading a series of public events.

Each weekend of this unique festival and exhibition, several Glowlab artists will be "in-residence" at Art Interactive to lead interactive public events in the neighborhood. These include a wearable trash workshop, a laughing bike tour, a lesson in text-messaging the sky, and an informal conversation with a suitcase.

While artists lead projects in the neighborhood's public spaces, the gallery is transformed into a working lab complete with video and web-based works and project documentation in the form of maps, photos and other materials. >from *How does your city affect you? Glowlab: Open Lab* . An eight-week psychogeography festival and exhibition at Art Interactive . October 14, 2005 - December 11, 2005

related context
> placelab: location-aware computing. october 14, 2005
> keitai internet: territory machines. february 18, 2005
> grafedia: hyperlinks for the urban landscape. february 18, 2005
> plan: pervasive and locative arts network. january 28, 2005
> walking as knowing as making: a peripatetic investigation of place. april 15, 2005
> neighbornodes: wireless extensible neighborhood network. november 12, 2004
> urballon: an urban media space. october 8, 2004
> fused space: new technology in/as public space. july 23, 2004
> fadaiat: a new kind of public space. june 18, 2004
> open source city. may 7, 2004
> pk: parkour. january 16, 2004
> civic tv: alternative visions of the urban experience. november 21, 2003
> psy-geo-conflux: the meaning of living in a city. may 14, 2003
> hackitecture and other data flow' architectures. march 28, 2003

imago
> walkaround and smell
the other side of the charles river

sonic flow
> around in square [stream]
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