Video Walk (Work in Progress) Union Square: A Public Place is a video walking tour of New York City’s Union Square Park. An experiment in site-specific documentary, this project draws on the traditions of walking tours, sound walks and historical documentary films. After downloading videos to a mobile device, the participants are invited to observe the space …
Audio Walk (2007) “Part art project, part history lesson and part contemporary social criticism.” (The Brooklyn Paper) Anyplace, Brooklyn, an audio walking tour of Downtown Brooklyn, premiered at Conflux, the annual New York Festival for Contemporary Psychogeography, in September, 2007. Participants described the experience as “eye-opening,” “multi-layered,” “complex,” “nuanced,” and “informative and thoughtful.” The audio walk mixed …
Locative Game (2006) “[T]he sound artist and locative media practitioner Samara Smith designed Chain Reaction (2006), a locative game with the goal of sensitizing players to the disappearance of independent enterprises in New York City. To align her project with other performative action projects, Smith looked to Boal’s idea of action and the individual’s state …
Site-specific Non-linear Narrative (2007-2008) WEAR AND TEAR was a site-specific, mixed-media public art storytelling project based in New York City’s Garment District. Designed by Suyin Looui, Samara Smith, and A.E. Souzis, the installation featured a mixture of sound environment, print media, and objects to reveal a larger story about a neighborhood in transition. Participants were …