| Forest Walk Links An eight-minute audio-guided tour through a forest at the Banff Centre, recorded with binaural sound. On the tape there is the sound of a the artist's voice, and of her body walking through the forest. The voice gives directions, while pointing out flowers, trees and people passing, sometimes telling stories and thoughts. As with others in this series including "an inability.." the entering into someone else's intimate space through the binaural sound is an important aspect of the piece. The syncronicity of events that are described on tape with things that happen in the listener's real time are exciting yet disorienting.The tour is a more a re-enactment of a hiker in a violent incident than a vicarious tourist tour. I personally find this engaging because of the clear use of sound to drive a narrative situation. Cardiff is one of the inspirations for my own thesis work with her layering of sound over reality. Lev Manovitch:"In my view her walks is the single best realization of augmented space paradigm - even though Cardiff do not use any sophisticated computer, networking and projection technologies. Cardiff1s 3walks2 show the aesthetic potential of overlaying a new information space over a physical space. The power of these walks lies in the interactions between the two spaces - between vision and hearing (what the user is seeing and what she is hearing), and between present and past (the time of user1s walk versus the audio narration which like any media recording belongs to some undefined time in the past)." Submitted
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