Gather.town media design

‘itinerant’ on gather.town: a tribute to dr. teri rueb

Using Gather.Town, Google Maps, Photoshop, speech to text software, and a couple of long nights, I recreated sonic artist and scholar Dr. Teri Rueb’s locative media work, ‘Itinerant’ (2005). Below is Dr. Rueb’s original artist statement:

Itinerant invites people to take a walk through Boston Common and surrounding neighborhoods to experience an interactive sound work that re-frames Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the classic tale of conflict between techno-scientific hubris and the human spirit. A second original text is woven throughout the space, engaging visitors in a search for an elusive character who is doppelganger to both the doctor and the creature. Sounds, "played" by visitors as they move through the city, create a series of frames within which to reflect upon our highly mobile, technologically saturated society and issues of identity, place, and displacement. Mobile and locational media (GPS) formally underscore themes in the work. The sonic overlay is also presented as an interactive map on the web, creating a formal re-framing and displacement of this site-specific work. terirueb.net

Click the button below to cruise the virtual Boston Commons on Gather.Town and hear excerpts from ‘Itinerant’. Special thanks to Dr. Rueb herself for permission to share this recreation, and to Dr. Lauren Hayes at Arizona State University for her enthusiastic support of this fun project!

Bodysleuth media design

Various Gather.Town room designs commissioned for Bodysleuth, a queer virtual immersive theater experience directed by Ri Lindegren. I loved making use of Inkarnate brushes for this project!