The objectives of the program are to:
- Enrich the way you practice your profession.
- Encourage new communities to emerge.
- Connect people across disciplines and geographies.
- To support collective learning and the practice of locative media.
- To bring stories, places and their people together, sharing concern for the global planetary crises of today.
- To find creative and practical ways to raise ecological awareness and practical action through co-creation, creativity and teamwork.
About the organising team
Fred Adam
Location based media explorer, co-founder of the CGeomap project and founder of the Lab GPS Museum
Fred Adam is a New Media explorer co-founder of the CGeomap project and founder of the Lab GPS Museum, researcher and Freelance Art Director expert in spatial narratives in the outdoors. He is especially interested in the exploration of the world with Smartphones in time and space, from the very small to the very large and from the past to the future.Fred investigates how mobile technology can help us to understand better and preserve the Earth by involving people into transformative outdoors experiences. With the artist Geert Vermeire we have launched in the year 2020 the Locative Media Supercluster brainstorming web portal, organizing collective mapping events and online courses.
Tracey M Benson
Dr Tracey M Benson is an Australian based interdisciplinary artist, UX designer, researcher and founder of Treecreate. She is passionate about more-than-human design and bridging the links between western ways of thinking with experiential and interconnected knowledge. Tracey works at the nexus of media arts, digital transformation, ecological systems and citizen empowerment. Her work focuses on issues related to belonging, place, wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviour change. Tracey often collaborates with Indigenous communities and Elders, historians, technologists and scientists. She lectures internationally and holds adjunct positions at University of Canberra, the More than Human Lab at Victoria University, Wellington, NZ, the eXtended Reality Collective at Charles Sturt University and is an Advisor for the TransArt Institute.
Online: www.traceybenson.com + www.words4water.art
Geert Vermeire
Geert Vermeire is a curator, poet and artist, moving constantly between Greece, Portugal and Brazil, with a focus on spatial writing, locative sound & performance and social practices. He develops collaborative processes, departing from the ethical involvement of cultural action, together with other creatives and activists comprising ecologists, anthropologists, musicologists, engineers-software developers and multimedia artists. He manages walk listen create, a web portal and online community for walking artists, coordinating Sound Walk September. He is also co-founder of Supercluster, a platform for learning and creating with site specific and locative media, leaning on deep knowledge and agency for a more than human planet. Interview with Geert Vermeire.
PARTNERS
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
Meeting of the Waters 