‘Scape the Hood

This image shows how regions are overlayed on a map. Content is then tagged to each region using proprietary Mobile Bristol software.

Overview
‘Scape the Hood was conceived and designed as a locative storytelling project for the Digital Storytelling Initiative at KQED for the opening of the 8th annual Digital Storytelling Festival.  We convened a group of storytellers, artists, and technologists to envision what this project could be. It became a narrative archeology experiment, combining digital storytelling and emerging technology by overlaying a virtual landscape on the physical world. As originally designed, the audience walks the streets and listens to the neighborhood stories, taking in the sights, sounds, and smells from both the physical and the virtual world.

NEW PIECE
This is a remix (using original files) that was created for a graduate class at the Divinity School at Harvard. It deals more specifically with time and place, and how they are overlaid onto one another. Maps are overlaid on top of earlier maps, and then overlaid again on top of current scenes. The sounds of what were (flora and fauna of the past) and overlaid on street scenes, while the intense traffic sounds of the modern neighborhood are overlaid on scenes of the past. Can we experience how time and place move into other times and places? The complete melding of the temporal and spatial?

One sees where the water used to flow. Judy West, local geologist and Project Director, The Madrina Group SF, explains what runs underneath. Anne Marie Sayers, Director & Founder of the Costanoan Indian Research, Inc. Indian Canyon and Tribal Chairperson of the Indian Canyon Nation, connects us to the ancient way of understanding rama (water).

This image shows how regions are overlayed on a map. Content (digital audio or video) is then tagged to each region using proprietary Mobile Bristol software.

Land & History is a location-based project in the Mission district. Land and History peels back the layers of time to evoke a place before the overlay of the city; it presents a place and a time when this land was part of the Indian Canyon Nation.

Mission Village Marketis a location-based project in the Mission district that starts every Saturday with the phrase, “We come to sell our wares.” Started as a community flea market by CELLSpace a community-based artist collective, The Mission Village Flea Market soon became a place of community empowerment.

Project Artaud is a location-based project in the Mission district.  This project brings the stories of the artists and art organizations from inside the building out onto the street, providing a glimpse of what it is like to live and work within a concentrated community of artists.

Technology
iPaq handheld PDA
Mobile Bristol software
Audacity Recording Software
Mics and digital cameras
Laptops and Desktop computers

Partners
Hewlett-Packard and the Mobile Bristol Platform Team
KQED
Digital Storytelling Festival

Script by Mark Petrakis.
Sound Mastering by Max Rosenblum

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