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Euro Metropolitan Views – EMV
ongoing project in collaboration with larbitslab
‘Euro Metropolitan Views’ is an extension of the art project ‘Dunkirk Views’. The project is build upon the idea of creating a city-portrait, starting from a subjective city-analysis, where audiovisual, personal documents and city-archives would be brought together. Using satellite-navigation and video, Larbitslab started some experiments about the relations between the individual, society, city-surroundings and image-building. These experiments moved fast to an image-building of the city starting from geolocalisation in stead of pure audiovisual data. In this system, the digital fixation of city routes – or digital tracks – with mobile phone is replacing the eye of the camera as the observation-platform. In this way, one creates possibilities for the daily or frequent routes of the individual citizen, including his daily travels in the city.
The collection of these different digital tracks creates new, alternative city-maps, on which a hidden or undiscovered organic city-pattern emerges. In this way, the geographical city-map gets a subjective frame which gives a meaning or a view on the city-fabric. The intention of this project is trying to elaborate the contemporary understanding of the city from an artistic view and to question these realities with the input of mobile applications.
