{"id":5925,"date":"2012-06-13T11:37:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T10:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=5925"},"modified":"2016-09-08T17:18:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T16:18:14","slug":"city-as-material-x-the-haunter-tuesday-19th-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/city-as-material-x-the-haunter-tuesday-19th-june\/","title":{"rendered":"City as Material x The Haunter \u2013 Tuesday 19th June"},"content":{"rendered":"

For our next City As Material<\/a> venture, we will be working with Tim Wright<\/a> on his new digital public art project The Haunter<\/a>, inspired by Thomas Hardy\u2019s \u2018Poems of 1912\/13′, enacted 100 years after Hardy wrote his famous sequence of verses mourning the death of his first wife, Emma.<\/p>\n

Participants will embark on walks along a specific route with a crafted wooden box, embedded with smart technology, ‘haunted’ by the legacy of Hardy’s poems. Able to speak, play recordings of poems, conversations and music, capture sounds and react dynamically using geolocation, the box will enhance and document their experiences.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday 19th June<\/strong> we’ll be joining Tim and box developer Joe Flintham (amongst others) in Dorchester to try it out in the field \u2013 a day of ‘recording, <\/strong>beta testing, walking and talking’ \u2013 forming a book (or series of books) on what happened, ideas discussed, and creative responses to the walk.<\/p>\n

For a detailed description of the day, check here<\/a> \u2013 it would be great if you could join us.<\/p>\n