Narratives of locative technologies as memory assemblages.

Abstract

This article considers the virtual (re)construction of the Vila Belga neighborhood in Santa Maria, Brazil in terms of memory and the role of place as integrative of experience. Our paper poses the question "What constitutes the memory of community as a collective process of (re)collection?" and seeks answers in the locative technologies used by the participants to (re)activate and (re)purpose the spacetime of experience through an artwork entitled airCity:arte#ocupaSM. Using a research/creation methodology the researchers sought to produce mappings of relation which constitute the "groundwork" of memory, by integrating information derived from sensing and geolocation devices and traditional audiovisual technologies.