“All the moments in our lives occupy the same space”: Tracing the Space of Memory in Tim Wright’s In Search of Oldton

 
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“All the moments in our lives occupy the same space”: Tracing the Space of Memory in Tim Wright’s In Search of Oldton (EN)

Nadkarni, Samira

Tim Wright‘s 2004 creative memory project, In Search of Oldton, is concerned with a need to reconcile a personal and collective cultural understanding of a recent predigital past with the present. Its complicated and fragmented landscape is produced by the remediation of repurposed pre-digital artefacts, and traversal of its space engages with the manner in which technology is increasingly mediating interaction between the urban landscapes and their inhabitants. This paper seeks to examine the manner in which Oldton‘s ludic-constructive play with memory engages with the psychogeographic understanding of the production of space and place through the user‘s interaction with the work, and its consequent commentary on the expansion of social interactions within a contemporary social apparatus so as to include the technology that makes these interactions possible. (EN)

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Peer-reviewed Article (EN)

Tim Wright (EN)
electronic literature (EN)
memory (EN)
In Search of Oldton (EN)


Synthesis

English

2014-05-01


National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EN)

1791-5155
Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies; No. 6 (2014): Acting (on) the Text: the Case of New Media; 10-25 (EN)

Copyright (c) 2014 Samira Nadkarni (EN)



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