Charting Liminal Sites

The fragmented urban narratives are primarily defined by an interaction between the world and its digital and media representation. Traditionally such interactions were disseminated by large media corporations, promoting central narratives, however the wide spread adoption of personal devices and social media technologies in the twenty-first century has allowed for the rise of individual consumption of content and the formulation of personal narratives. The proliferation of such interactions can be said to have collapsed the traditional boundaries between the physical and digital realms.

Such interactions are governed via 'Fiducial Markers', fixed points of reference, used as measures within imaging systems. Typically these markers denoted a one-way interaction, a digital generation from the physical world beneath, however, when viewed in a world of hybridity between two realms, they become sites of mediation and construction, generative zones, establishing a reciprocal nature between the physical and digital. The project not only sees fiducial fields as 'visual' markers but any point of reference mediating the digital interaction with the world; urban events and narratives, histories and cultural practices, can all be taken within the fold.

This combinatory drawing, attempts a composition which charts this process where fragmented narratives are catalogued and developed around these liminal sites, before being projected upon our screens. Such quick studies aided in the arrangement of the shadow narrative device and suggested a realm of liminal occupancy where devices mediate and generate our understanding of the world.

Fig.1 : Compositional charting how fiducial points determine [media]tion sites for a hybrid world view. The creation of content from a fragmentary data field is presented as an objected narrative upon our screens.