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Categories: Interactive Environment | Text
Keywords: Interaction
Relevant passages:
Oliver Grau «Immersion and Interaction
From Circular Frescoes to Interactive Image Spaces»
Inke Arns «Interaction, Participation, Networking: Art and Telecommunication» Rudolf Frieling «The Archive, the Media, the Map and the Text» Wolfgang Ernst «Beyond the Archive: Bit Mapping»
Works by Jeffrey Shaw:
Corpocinema Emergences of Continous Forms EVE (Extended Virtual Environment) Movie Movie Pig for Pink Floyd Place-Ruhr Revolution The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway The Narrative Landscape The Virtual Museum Viewpoint
Jeffrey Shaw
«The Legible City»
Visitors to ‘The Legible City', created at the Institut für Neue Medien in Frankfurt/M., are seated on a stationary bicycle and ‘move' through streets projected onto the surface in front of them. In contrast to those of a normal city, the streets here are literally legible, lined not by buildings but by letters. On their passage through the city, cyclist-visitors can pursue various narrative threads, accumulating their own history of the city. On a small display on the handlebars is a map of the city on which the cyclists can plot their position. Between 1988 and 1991 Jeffrey Shaw created three versions of ‘The Legible City': Manhattan, Amsterdam and Karlsruhe. The Manhattan variant was one of the very first interactive installations, today regarded as a key work of the genre.
