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Fig. 3.5
Water wARs
by John Craig Freeman, Beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 2011,
Augmented reality public art
Such is the attitude native to electracy. What the spiritual is to orality and the
materialist to literacy, the aesthetic is to electracy.
Water wARs
, shown in Fig.
3.5
, anticipates the flood of environmental refugees
into the developed world caused by environmental degradation, global warming and
the privatization of the world's drinking water supply by multinational corporations
like Bechtel. The project consists of a sprawling virtual shanty pavilion for
undocumented artists/squatters and water war refugees.
3.8
Choragraphy
Konsult is a practice to correlate existential experience with everyday life materi-
ality. For an environment to be intelligent, the apparatus needs to manage not only
physical location (GPS), but EPS, which requires tracking not only presence but
absence (
différance
) (Derrida
1998
). If conventional wayfinding gives coordinates
that say “You Are Here,” existential coordinates engage a more complex orientation:
You are where you are not, and are not where you are
. A konsult is an event of
encounter between egents and places, both of which involve dimensions that are
not phenomenal, not present, without presence and not presentable. Such are the
coordinates mapped through ubimage. Thoreau's
Wa l d e n
concludes with a figure
that provides an emblem for EPS: “What was the meaning of that South-Sea
Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of
the fact that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is
an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him, but that it is easier to sail many 1,000
