Art + communication 2004

A trip to Limbazi in northern Latvia, for the opening of the Piens (‘milk’) project, milk routes through the EU, mapped through the personal stories of the people along them. GPS used as a storytelling tool rather than a location tool.

Art + Communication 2004 was organised by RIXC in Riga, Latvia, October 2004, the final event in the Trans-cultural Mapping workshop series that had been running since spring. Even Westvang and I presented our Timeland project during the three-day conference and exhibition.

I’ve made a large photo set at Flickr, and we’ve been using the tag art+communication for collaborative documentation.

The Piens trip was a good example of GPS being used as a storytelling tool, a way of opening personal stories in a documentary process.

A big thankyou to the RIXC lot, and everyone involved.