Autonomy of experience: time, space, path and place as blended artistic methodology in MAP, an online, interactive poetry experience. Issue 2 (4th May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mueller, Caroline
• Is Part Of: International journal of performance arts and digital media. Volume 18:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 249
• Page End: 262
• Publication Date: 2022-05-04
• Subjects: Participatory performance -- Instagram -- blended creative experiences -- interdisciplinary art -- research -- slow design; Performance art -- Periodicals; Performance art -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Digital media -- Periodicals; Digital media; Performance art; Periodicals; 700.285
• DOI: 10.1080/14794713.2022.2103279
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2040-0934

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article will discuss M A P, an interactive poetic experience facilitated on the popular media sharing application Instagram, which was developed as a research-based, cross-course collaboration. The artistic methodology applied during M A P was developed during the global pandemic of COVID-19 and was created with, and inspired by the use of blended learning approaches. Acknowledging and addressing the social disconnect and technological hyper-connect during the pandemic, M A P can be understood as a practice-as-research experimentation that investigates how digital technologies might be repurposed in blended artistic practice to allow for a more reflective and embodied experience of ourselves and others in time and place. The makers of M A P advocate the facilitation of autonomous choice-making, particularly in relation to the use of time, space, path and pace, as well as the application of slow technology and slow design considerations to develop abstract story-telling and relational sense-making through the merging of online and real-world activities. M A P can be accessed via Instagram on @map_game_start or via https://www.themapexperience.com .