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Supercluster.eu
collaborative creation and Locative Media practice
We explore new forms of creating and learning with locative media in the light of locally-globally issues, our planetary crises and forces of global change, encouraging local and global joined-up-thinking.
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Locative Media
"activating stories and knowledge of people about and in their places, to be heard, seen and understood through the place itself and not only through words".
Locative media is augmented reality outdoors . It blends being in real places with storytelling and information or knowledge about the place, just by walking around with a mobile phone or via an interactive map.
Locative media allow us to root with place and nature, creating new experiences to listen and to see, to resonate with and to feel our planet, its space, its time and its beings.
It is easy to learn and practice via our online platform and via our community, without any technical knowledge.
Courses
"world leading scholars and experts in the fields of ecology, humanities, sciences and arts, next to local and indigineous people, to enrich horizontal and group creation processes with collaborative thinking about our planet"
Commissioned or co-coordinated by educational institutions, we organize up online courses around the world. In 2020 the Earthlings Summer School at King's College London, and in 2021 the Meeting of the Waters Spring School at the University of Canberra.
These courses match 36 participants of a variety of disciplines. In teams of 6 they think together about local-global topics of crises, and work on a collective locative project, in their place and community, guided by leading experts, scholars, renowned artists, and by local and native experts.
The courses are open to everybody with a deep interest in place, community, nature and the earth, without the need for previous technical knowledge.
It is easy to learn and practice via our online platform and via our community, without any technical knowledge.
A new course can be commissioned and coordinated together with Supercluster, we create solutions based on your needs in any size or format.
Workshops
"world leading scholars and experts in the fields of ecology, humanities, sciences and arts, next to local and indigineous people, to enrich horizontal and group creation processes with collaborative thinking about our planet"
Commissioned or co-coordinated by educational and cultural partners we organized online or hybrid workshops for the University of Sao Paulo, the !Musica¡ Festival in Sao Paulo (Brazil), for the British Library in London (UK), for the Urban Tree Festival (UK), for the Analogio Festival in Athens, the Walking Arts Encounters/Conference in Prespa (Greece), for Media Architecture Biennale 2021 (Queensland, Australia) and for Walking Body III - University of Minho in Guimaraes (Portugal).
Our workshops introduce you into the new world of collaborative locative media, locative audio / music and locative literature, by creating a small project to get you going and tailor-made for your organisation or group. On the measure of beginners with no technological knowledge, or for intermediate and advanced participants who want to delve deeper.
We organized commissioned workshops about a variety of subjects, as for example about the sounds and silences of the city, psychogeographical walking, other-than-human lifeforms, interspecies interaction in the city, the habitat of lake areas, and the history, present and future of urban cultural space.
Everybody with a creative mind, and from all backgrounds and ages, including children can participate in a workshop, no need for previous digital experience.
Locative Media Games
"to open horizons, coming to new ideas and collective solutions for local-global topics by introducing the diversity of how locative media and storytelling can be used"
We organized commissioned workshops about a variety of subjects, as for example about the sounds and silences of the city, psychogeographical walking, other-than-human lifeforms, interspecies interaction in the city, the habitat of lake areas, and the history, present and future of urban cultural space.
Everybody with a creative mind, and from all backgrounds and ages, including children can participate in a workshop, no need for previous digital experience.
For who
We coordinate, organize and design collaboratively courses, workshops, educational games, collaborative projects and processes in an integrative approach to relationships with one another and with the more-than-human Earth via locative practices and locative media.
On a personal level, the practice of locative media will allow you to live and experience territories in a different way, by creating new connections with places, people, stories, locally and around the world.
For Participants "Supercluster is a path made by learning and creating, and you don't walk it alone. It is a caravan of people and ideas, building roads ahead."
For educational professionals "No one educates others, no one educates himself, people educate each other through nature, place and time". (to Paolo Freire)
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"Empowering and connecting groups around the world, with each other and the planet, through online learning and creating with easy to use collaborative locative media."
Supercluster invites world leading scholars and experts in the fields of ecology, humanities, sciences and arts, next to local and indigineous people, to enrich horizontal learning and group creation in processes with collaborative thinking about our planet, in the format of courses, workshops, games, and by creating locative media works.
Supercluster aims to let groups and communities emerge, connecting people with our more than human planet in crisis, with each other, with their places, with their ancestral knowledge, through collective learning and the practice of locative media.
Supercluster is inclusive for all backgrounds, cultures and ages, as a motor for concrete local-global action for the planetary crises of today, climate change and forced migration.
Fred Adam
Fred Adam
Fred Adam is an artist and art director, specialist in Locative Media technology and ecology, creator of CGeomap and the database gpsmuseum.eu.
Geert Vermeire
Geert Vermeire
Geert Vermeire is a curator, artist, poet with a focus on spatial writing, locative sound & performance and social practices, integrating collaborative processes, within an ecological framework.
Locative Media Supercluster is registered as a non profit in Belgium. Company registration: 0772.801.473
Fred Adam
short bioFred Adam is an artist and art director, specialist in Locative Media technology and ecology, creator of CGeomap and the database gpsmuseum.eu.
Geert Vermeire
short bioGeert Vermeire is a curator, artist, poet with a focus on spatial writing, locative sound & performance and social practices, integrating collaborative processes, within an ecological framework.
Supercluster is registered as a business in Belgium. Company registration: BE 0748.963.328
Collaborations
Transeuntis Mundi
Supercluster is participating to “Transeuntis Mundi Immersive Exhibition 2023”, including the presentation of an unprecedented work of virtual reality in a online and in-site format. Going back to 2019 Supercluster collaborates with the Transeuntis Mundi collective, creating virtual, interactive and immersive migratory experiences, where visitors choose to travel and live minimal stories and cultures across 4 continents, using 360º technology that allows the interactivity of the viewer. The visitor is who decides the route and what to focus when moving the image, consequently the sound and the immersive result.
CÂNDIDA L. BORGES
Transmedia artist, musician and professor. Associate Professor at UNIRIO University (BR); Fellow Researcher at Antioquia University (CO). PhD in Arts from the Interdisciplinary Center for Computer Music Research/ Plymouth University (UK), Master in Music/Piano from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (BRJ.)
GABRIEL MARIO VÉLEZ
Transmedia artist, writer and professor. Dean and Professor at the School of Arts of the Antioquia University (CO); Former Fellow at the MIT OpenDocLab (US); Post-Doc in Arts at the National University of Córdoba (ARG) and Doctor in Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid (ESP).
Roundware
Supercluster is working on the integration of Roundware, an open, flexible, distributed framework which collects, stores, organizes and re-presents audio content. It lets you collect audio, along with supporting images and text, from anyone with a smartphone or web access, upload it to a central repository along with its metadata and then filter it and play it back collectively in continuous audio streams. It creates a seamless, non-linear, location-sensitive layer of audio in any geographic space mixed on the fly based on participant input and collects audio from participants in real-time via iOS, Android and web-based devices, tagging collected audio with location and project-based metadata for filtering.
HALSEY BURGUND
A musician and sound artist living outside Boston. Both his installations and musical performances make extensive use of spoken human voice recordings as musical elements, alongside traditional and electronic instruments. He collects these voices from otherwise uninvolved individuals whom he records in various locations, from museums to street corners to rock clubs, via in-person interviews, smartphone apps and the internet. In many ways, Halsey's work is a combination of socio-anthropological 'research', musical documentary and contributory experience.
