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Documentary, Instructions, and Experiences of Place

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This chapter describes the concept for a documentary that is also an instruction-based artwork. As a mobile, site-specific, and screen-based locative project the intention is that the embodied experience of the digital content is emphasized, setting up a resonance between content, instructions, the user and the real world. The objective of this method is to guide the audience as a participant through a series of directed poetic experiences to provoke situated knowledges about place and to consider other perspectives.

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  1. School of Communication, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia

    Bettina Frankham

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  1. RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Adrian Miles

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Frankham, B. (2018). Documentary, Instructions, and Experiences of Place. In: Miles, A. (eds) Digital Media and Documentary. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68643-1_3

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