The first phase of the Landscape-Portrait project in Bournemouth finished last night with a sprint across Bournemouth to catch the train back to Waterloo. Tony White and myself just made the train with tony suffering mechanical issues by still making the cut.
Thinking about the project now there is a question, part of my PHD research, about the use of technology in non-art or specialist environments.
In using video and the net to disseminate the content created by LP we have lost a few participants who simply do not trust the technology, that is video or the web. With video the reaction has to with being recognisable, along the lines of 'please don't take my picture'. With the web its slightly different, but the reaction is related to an idea of what people (other net users) might use this for. This incorporates a range from pedophiles through to identity theft. Its obviously not our place to persuade people that the dangers are not real, they do happen, but that they are extremely unlikely to happen as a result of taking part in LP.
This level of mistrust - either of medium or technology - does not happen s explicitly within classic 'art' spaces, there is sometimes an unthinking acceptance - no more worrying than the suspicion - that they, as participants' know the risks and still wish take part in a cultural project.
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