We are worst than a tipical tourist, we are Media Tourists
this idea of da "Media Tourist" is based on Tapio's text, is introduce here to make us aware of the danger we (drone+soup) face. ending on being nothing more than boring consumist people using fancy technologies. i guess we will agree on moving away from that, so lets try to face towards material that can either, by extreme similarity or by obsecene opposition, breaks the codes of any "touristic" experience of Bergen. (withouth loosing reference to the capitalistic infection of the tourist).
as said on a previous post and in chat2 we have to be also aware of not making up "another" data representation installation...nowadays this is as boring as once so called "interactive" art..
in the blend of the words tourist + agent i dont see what js says: "A tourist IS an agent". If we stick to that wikipedia definition of agent that says that for an agent its ontological commitments are clear... this will then be far from the signs and adverts that moves the superficial wills and convictions of the "tourist". Of course we can call this vageness an ontological drive but it will never have an strong commitment as the agent definition declares making it differ and creating a contradiction in terms, since the tourist is just guided by a whim and the agent has a clear ontological agenda. So far so good as a Title for an exploration. Travel Agent deals also with the "guided tour" idea to which we sing as festival travellers. As "Media Tourists"
being a tourist is to pay to temporarily avoid our own ethics (those related to the territoire where we "belong"), a tourist evades his place and moves 81kmts* to the margins in an attemp to discover the "other" and to report back with videos, photos, emails and postcards as if s/he where out to conquer the world throught repetitively mediatized material.
*(i think it should be one kmt. more than the 80km limit range defined by the World Tourism Organization:)... a possible title/idea to follow. it makes one think about the things we could find at exactly 81kmts outside from the place where the installation should be presented....we could work on a site specific installation 81km away from the center where its should be located. then we can play/use all our gizmos to present it inside of the gallery.
we agree on the Tourist as a departing concept to explore but seems that our perspectives digress, theres no interest in using the "biometrics" of real tourists consuming Bergen. sincerely as i tried to explain in chat2, i think that even tought we should examine the psychology of the "tourist" we know now from our first hand experience that either you sign to make the guided tour or you allow yourself to get lost and follow your instinct.
if we follow the first one is very likely we will end up at queus in macdonals and museusm, follow the tourists in paris..or even bergen..
how to elaborate on the idea of all of us being nothing more than tourists in todays world..sold on t.v as a lastminute trip. when we think we belong to a place, more than anything or anyone we end up awaken by kids that do appropiatte the same city and corners in a much more sincere or to the core way...or even a tourist can come from far to tell us about how splendid is the view from a city tower we have never climb but gew up in gestalt with it.
another thing, how much do the people from Bergen like to have those tourists? phps as much as the switz enjoy the money that jews or indians bring to the economy, and they allow them to make all those stupid questions about yodeling and fondue just because at the end they have the sure conviction they will leave the country in few days. what does a tourist conquer? the answer is clear in godards carabiniers.
about the technical side: i dont want to fall into it to much til we get some conceptual ground where to stand. i hope that we get some input from the other people potentialy involved in this project. since we do need a 3rd perspective to move on.
about the database narrative of lev manovich's soft cinema: it's very exiting in terms of the conceptual uses of metadata to trace the indexes that they (the programmers) use for building his piece. but in terms of user/reader/viewer experience is not exciting at all (personal experience). it misses the point IMHO, to bridge concept and formalization in the piece.
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