Ghostbustour

Filed under Walk/Tour, projects

Event Information

Artist: Allen, Bulaong, Horan, Lundquist + ONeill
Website: http://ghostbustour.com

Experiencing Ghostbustour requires the use of a portable video device such as an iPod or PSP. If you have one bring one! We will have a few pre-configured devices available for check out, but will also be on hand to help configure your own device for the tour.

A multimedia walking tour of New York City, augmented through the use of portable media devices.

A multimedia walking tour of New York City, augmented through the use of portable media devices. Portions of the film Ghostbusters appropriate to specific sites along the tour path, as well as other video content relevant to both the film and geography and history of New York are available on video iPod and PSP.This project is an attempt to re-attach ‘media memories’ with our real experience of space and time.

Growing up in a media culture has created fictional recollections within us all that are owned by others (through copyright) and that exist outside of ourselves. Never-experienced depictions mix with our real memories; spaces represented on film and television create the potential for an impossibly distant deja-vu.

On a ‘ghostbustour’ viewers are presented with actual and mediated locations from an archetypal 80’s film that created media memories of New York City for an entire generation. Watching film footage on a portable media device, while standing in the site of its creation some 20 years ago, media memories become real memories and mediated experience becomes actualized.

The most gracious folks at Tekserve and Eyebeam are sponsoring the premier of ghostbustour at Conflux2007!