AudioGuide

a psychogeography project

April 1, 2008

Micronomics AudioGuide (MAG)

“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation“.
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, Ch. 1, sct. 1 (1967)

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MAG is a self guided tour for the Micronomics May Day event in Brussel. MAG is influenced by the legacy of psychogeography. MAG takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and hopefully jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape and its social impact. The MAG tour leads from Place De La Constitution to Rue Du Commerce to Rue Du Marché and finally to Rue De L’Économie. Using Yahoo map software, a streetmap focusing on economic terms was created. These terms were later further explored by putting them into an online library search engine (Project Gutenberg). The found text fragments have been converted to an MP3 file with a text to speech software.

AudioGuide is influenced by the legacy of psychogeography. It is a fictional layer above the real world to create absurd or surreal situations. The self guided audio tours use the Yahoo map and Google map software and a text to speech conversion of texts retrieved from Project Gutenberg to create walks through various cities. The search at Gutenberg has been directed by street names.

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Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as the "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals." [..] Psychogeography includes just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape." (Wikipedia)

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