Final Project: Quantum Tour

Quantum Time Tours

Create a walking tour or site-specific performance that invites your audience to simultaneously experience two different times or places.

Use narration as well as either audio, video, projected images, or other technological enhancement to overlay images or sounds onto your site that invoke another time period or a different place so that your audience can in some way feel that they are in both times or places at once.

Choose a route or location on or near campus to host your audience that will anchor your piece and figure out what other place or time period you will conjure onto being in that site.

Through your narration lead your audience though both your real and virtual site. These walking tours or performances should take between 5-10 minutes. 

Some options for where to start:

    •    Choose a site that has some interesting history and use projected images or audio to bring that history back to life so that your audience experiences both what happened in that place in the past and what is there now. (Similar to the Secret Life of Bridges project by Tim DuRoche & Ed Purver or the dance reenactment app created by Adam Weinert.)

    •    Choose a site that could be a good setting for a fictional story. Create audio and/or video that leads your audience through that place using what is really there as a backdrop for your story so that  people feel like they are inside of your story. (Like Janet Cardiff’s tour of Central Park, called Her Long Black Hair or her cellphone video tour of that train station called Alter Bahnhof Video Walk.)

    •    Choose a place that you’ve been in your life that people would be difficult or impossible for other people to experience - because it is far away or a private experience. Find a site on campus that can stand in for that place is some way. Project still images or video, or create audio that invokes the distant place onto the place on campus and lead people through the campus site as if they are in your distant/special place. (Sorta like Khris Soden’s tour of Tilburg, Netherlands that he conducted in Portland.)

Reading for Week 8

Atemporality for the Creative Artist by Bruce Sterling

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Walidah Imarisha Reading

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Readings For DIY Futures

Scott McCloud, Blood in the Gutter.


Dunne & Raby, Between Reality & The Impossible
(Optional read about Speculative Design)