Ghostbustour Premieres @ Conflux Festival 2007
The much awaited Ghostbustour (AV Ghostbusters walking tour of NYC) premieres at the Conflux Festival.
A multimedia walking tour of New York City, augmented through the use of portable media devices. Portions of the film Ghostbusters appropriate to specific sites along the tour path, as well as other video content relevant to both the film and geography and history of New York are available on video iPod and PSP.This project is an attempt to re-attach ‘media memories’ with our real experience of space and time.
Growing up in a media culture has created fictional recollections within us all that are owned by others (through copyright) and that exist outside of ourselves. Never-experienced depictions mix with our real memories; spaces represented on film and television create the potential for an impossibly distant deja-vu.
On a ‘ghostbustour’ viewers are presented with actual and mediated locations from an archetypal 80’s film that created media memories of New York City for an entire generation. Watching film footage on a portable media device, while standing in the site of its creation some 20 years ago, media memories become real memories and mediated experience becomes actualized.
Conflux is the annual NYC festival for contemporary psychogeography where international artists, technologists, urban adventurers and the public put investigations of everyday city life into practice on the streets.
We’ll be around all week, but most especially on Sept 13th.