‘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 and introductory movie
‘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. There were three very different sections developed:
- Mission Village Market was conceived and developed by Leslie Rule, Stan Heller, and Thom Mallon.
- Land and History was conceived and developed by Paula Levine, Carolina Lucero Funes, and Romero Alves.
- Project Artaud conceived and developed by Abbe Don and David Lawrence.
- Intro and Outro produced by Sean Horton of Antenna Theater.

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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