Pre/amble

Description:

Pre/amble was a two-day festival of art and psychogeography. The exploration of the city was used as a starting point to create dialogue surrounding methods of psychogeography, and its intersection with contemporary art practices. Pre/amble focused on presenting work and ideas through talks and walks as they converged with situationist action and/or psychogeography.

Artists and researchers gave presentations from a broad range of media and subject matter including mapping, mobile technologies, digital and analogue hybrids, experimental cartography, data movement, moblogging, WiFi, warchalking/wardriving, interventions in public space, audio works, and other fields of art. 

Through walks, artists and researchers presented works that took place in public urban spaces, whether performative events, dérives, fieldwork, tours, audio installations, participatory actions, GPS drawing, and generative/algorithmic walks.

Participating artists were Julie Andreyev, Kate Armstrong, Matt Smith and Sandra Wintner (Artist Run Limousine), Jim Colquhoun, Robert Ladislas Derr, Eliza Fernbach, John Craig Freeman, Karlis Kalnins, Kevin Hamilton, Ingrid Koivukangas, M. Simon Levin and Laurie Long, Eileen Matis Wong, [murmur], Sharilyn Neidhardt, and Karen O'Rourke.

Pre/amble was presented in partnership with The Upgrade, Special Airplane, and Year Zero One.

Curated by Kate Armstrong.