User:Paula Levine

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Paula Levine is new media artist, educator and writer focusing on experimental narrative and new forms of narrative spaces. Her current research/art practice is in locative media, GPS technology, wireless and remote devices.

Selected projects include:

• Signature, an installation in which the seismic signals from the 1906 Bay area earthquake were converted to sound and controlled by passing Global Positioning Satellites overhead. (Sonoma County Museum, 2006)

• Between conflict and resolve, an interactive experimental immersive 3-d space using 19th century stereograms of sites in Jerusalem as experienced through 21st century technology. Events taking place the year the stereogram was taken and those taking place 100 years later are embedded within the images, allowing viewers to slide between the culture, history, politics and everyday life then and now. The idea is to make the details and nuances of the historical and political forces shaping these sites as available to viewers' experiences as the architecture itself. (Banff New Media Lab Residency, 2006)

• Shadows from another place: San Francisco <->Baghdad, A series of "transposed maps" using Global Positioning System coordinates, maps, city sites and the web to translate and represent the impact of political or cultural traumas -- such as wars or shifts in borders and territorial boundaries -- that take place in one location, upon another. Collapsing distinctions between "foreign" or "domestic," these hybrid spaces erase the safety of geographic distance and portray the impact of political, social and cultural change in local terms/on local ground. (http://paulalevine.banff.org)

Paula Levine, a Canadian-American, teaches in Conceptual/Information Arts (http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts), an area focusing on art and emerging technologies, in the Art Department at San Francisco State University. Over the past several years, she has taught a Locative Studio where students experiment with various forms of locative media exploring , networking, gaming, experimental mapping using wireless devices on hand widely ranging from low to high(er) technologies.

She presented papers on Transpositional Mapping at the MIT conference on narrative and recently at the ISEA ZeroOne conference in San Jose. She participated in the recent Leonardo online publication on Locative Media (http://leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n03-04/index.asp).

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website: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~plevine

Shadows from another place: http://paulalevine.banff.org