- James Partaik, (http://jamespartaik.ca) is a canadian interdisciplinary artist based in Quebec city and Chicoutimi, Q... moreJames Partaik, (http://jamespartaik.ca) is a canadian interdisciplinary artist based in Quebec city and Chicoutimi, Quebec. He is the author and collaborator of numerous works in diverse domains such as visual arts, digital arts, music and architecture. His works have been presented in international festivals, galleries, museums around the world. He has published in various journals, including Inter art actuel, and in Artexte’s anthology, S:ON, Sound in Canadian art. He is the initiator and director of Insertio (Barragan Levesque, Partaik ) an interuniversity research-creation laboratory formed around the coalesced problematic of interstices, architecture, digital arts and the city. He is professor of digital arts at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Quebec.edit
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"Mapping_me", the title of this artistic research project is inspired by many questions: can archives constitute a conceptual map, a personality? Is the mapping of place through a particular viewpoint a form of self-portrait, a selfie?... more
"Mapping_me", the title of this artistic research project is inspired by many questions: can archives constitute a conceptual map, a personality? Is the mapping of place through a particular viewpoint a form of self-portrait, a selfie? Are we not, through self-archiving processes, mapping not only the real but also the individual? This Work in Progress (WIP) is currently at the stage of its second iteration. The project Mapping_me consists of a multiUser virtual reality installation allowing the Users to navigate within spatialized and geolocalized visual and sound archives using an innovative tangible interface. Specifically, the installation consists of an augmented rotating chair as a physical interface to navigate through a metaverse of digital content incorporating photographs, panoramas , texts, sounds and photos-videos in Fulldome format. The system structure allows one to quickly integrate new content into the virtual environment. The tools developed allows to generate media footprints of places and spaces diffused within a shared space in a virtual reality context. The installation makes it possible to represent not only the spaces and places but also to transpose the urban and human atmospheres thus making it possible to propose a new experience of a place as a form of sensory amplification.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
"Mapping_me", the title of this artistic research project is inspired by many questions: can archives constitute a conceptual map, a personality? Is the mapping of place through a particular viewpoint a form of self-portrait, a selfie?... more
"Mapping_me", the title of this artistic research project is inspired by many questions: can archives constitute a conceptual map, a personality? Is the mapping of place through a particular viewpoint a form of self-portrait, a selfie? Are we not, through self-archiving processes, mapping not only the real but also the individual? This Work in Progress (WIP) is currently at the stage of its second iteration. The project Mapping_me consists of a multiUser virtual reality installation allowing the Users to navigate within spatialized and geolocalized visual and sound archives using an innovative tangible interface. Specifically, the installation consists of an augmented rotating chair as a physical interface to navigate through a metaverse of digital content incorporating photographs, panoramas , texts, sounds and photos-videos in Fulldome format. The system structure allows one to quickly integrate new content into the virtual environment. The tools developed allows to generate media footprints of places and spaces diffused within a shared space in a virtual reality context. The installation makes it possible to represent not only the spaces and places but also to transpose the urban and human atmospheres thus making it possible to propose a new experience of a place as a form of sensory amplification.