Describing the dynamic interaction of places, times, languages, identities, cultural formats, dominant and marginal narratives that characterize diasporic culture appears to require a multidimensionality that the “map” metaphor seems to elude.
Adrian Freed and Lisa Wymore are working together with a small team of creative engineers and artists to make a digital platform that has a low threshold of entry. The system would allow people interested in embodied actions, gesture, sensation, bodily expression, etc. to enter the space and build digital instruments that are activated by a variety of sensor and camera based inputs.