A [?]Postdigital Encounter with PostDigital Encounters

'Bus-lagged' and in a new time zone (I'd thought it was 7 hours apart, but fortunately thought to ask Charlotte the time at 1 in the morning, and when she replied 9am I knew I'd got something wrong!). So not much sleep, several pages of drawings, a new film with an interview of a rather special kind, and a 46 page powerpoint sent and resent by Pando to my own magical creature helper in the form of Charlotte on mouse control over at the Watershed's Cinema 3, and we did it! Without more than a couple of soundless moments (or four).


My presentation ‘Treasuring Media: Geo Art Cache and User Participation’
is online at the Postdigi website, along with loads of interesting stuff from the other presenters. As I'm in the habit of recording my skype calls (for Clean), there's a recording of the live thing too, so you can (almost) follow slide by slide as Charlotte did - extending the encounter to another time and place. I'd be glad to hear how it works? Play the Audio Boo and watch away! Oh, and don't forget to send in a colour grid with the cache key you receive (in the presentation) and quote that cache key with your grid. When enough grids have come in the creature will respond and the same cache key will unlock new treasure on the website.. Until then, it's over to you from me (and MC).


[Hey.. when's blogger going to enable bi-location for blog post ids?]

Hunter Gatherer, Birdshill

4 caches (smells, sees, hears, feels) hidden in Birdshill Park and awaiting online approval from geocaching.com!

Caching Grids and Gathering

 

I made this colour grid at http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=49.995842,-96.882042 using http://twitter.com/gathererapp

Meanwhile, Over the Seas...

Someone is stirring from sleep...

The magical creature of the Yorkshire Dales springs into life as the Geoartcache begins.

Today, 14th May, marks my first cache, Hunter Gatherer Birthplace, Ingleton going live.

The project launches on 28th May, when another four caches will come to life. Over the summer, the story of the magical creature unfolds online as hunters find the caches and gather their responses to the places they explore. 

I'm working remotely (on behalf of the creature) to collate the responses and create content for the Gatherer3 website as the story unfolds. And there may be some geoartcaches springing to life in Canada along the way... with creatures communicating across continents!

More about: the Hunter Gatherer, the Chrysalis Arts GeoArtCache project, Hunter Gatherer iphone app and project blog.