Psychogeography / social space / dérive

Discussed in

“Can Documentary Create Space?” by Jason Fox, Film Quarterly

More on AR…

This Augmented Reality App Tells Indigenous Stories in Canadian Cities
This project, Wikiupedia, seems to be defunct, but is worth discussing

John Craig Freeman, longtime AR creator. An overview of some projects:

Some Possibilities for a Mobile Camera

Laura Chipley’s project Appalachian Mountaintop Patrol project partially sponsored by A Blade of Grass “uses video cameras, drones and environmental sensors to document and take action against the ongoing environmental contamination andpublic health crisis caused by Mountaintop Removal coal mining.”

V1b3 15 – Art2Drone – show of work using/about drones

Sam Easterson’s Animal-Cams, 2008ish
http://www.vdb.org/titles/animal-cams
http://www.vdb.org/titles/burrow-cams

Animal POV – Eagle

Eagle over Dubai

Alex Mallis – Park to Park (made for Psychogeography class)
https://vimeo.com/42368599

Hollis Frampton‘s experimental film Surface Tension (1968)

Revisited by the NYTimes + Google Street View
https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000001443844/surface-tension-revisited.html

the whole film

Yosemite National Park (+ tourists) shot with the Gear 360 camera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joeu3b0FQF0

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Examples of “drifting” and “remapping” in Chinese film, per Yingjin Zhang’s essay “Remapping Beijing…” (a previously assigned text)

The World by Jia Zhanke via The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/the-world

Beijing Bicycle by Wang Xiaoshuai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpKh79XngZU

On Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments,
one of two readings for Next Week