Barcode Cinema

Barcode Cinema

Barcode Cinema is a pseudonym for locative media projects by Kristin Lucas and Lee Montgomery. During the 2010 Conflux festival in New York, Barcode Cinema led participants on a tour of four neighborhoods in New York (the East Village, Chinatown, Little Italy, and Washington Square) using locative media.  Using mobile phones, Barcode Cinema participants scanned barcode stickers and viewed geo-tagged images as movies on their mobile phones.

Barcode Cinema can be considered Interactive Cinema because it is a procedural formulation of experience. For example, like traditional Cinema, in Barcode Cinema, the boundaries of experience are known. You are in one of four neighborhoods in New York and you are looking for Barcode stickers. The way you experience the Cinema however, is highly unique. If for example a tourist was standing in your peripheral vision as you were viewing the movie on your mobile phone, your experience will be different because it is happening in the moment.

You can read more about the project here: http://www169.pair.com/klucas/archive/barcodecinema.html

Watch the videos in the project here: http://www.youtube.com/user/barcodecinema

Go here to read more about Conflux: http://confluxfestival.org/