A hybrid way to navigate the city: visual and aural cartography of the city of Athens. (2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Antonaki, Katerina; Glinou, Eleni
• Is Part Of: International journal of arts and technology. Volume 10:Number 3(2017)
• Page Start: 189
• Page End: 205
• Publication Date: 2017
• Subjects: space perception -- auditory perception -- hybrid narrations -- image and sound -- urban soundscapes -- visual noise -- aural cartography -- silent readers -- visual identity -- aural urban identity -- aural dimension of images -- city soundscapes -- visual and aural stimuli -- sound-recording and reproducing; Technology and the arts -- Periodicals; Computer art -- Periodicals; 700.285
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1754-8853

Abstract

Our experience of the city is formed through a constant symbiosis with a vast amount of printed information. In this article, we illustrate the aural aspects of those printed information in the urban space. We do that by referring to current discourses around visual and sound theories and by engaging contemporary open source technologies/software. The text is part of a wider design-research project which is in progress and which investigates the aural qualities of the printed information of urban space and tries to 'translate' the so called visual noise of urban space into sound. The article is based on the conceptual end of designing an app which will translate the visual noise of urban space into sounds.