Hybrid Ecosystem Of Narratives

What is a hybrid ecosystem of narra2ves? Kai Pata

What is a hybrid ecosystem? •  According to Nicolas Nova, “hybrid ecologies” correspond to a shi? from media spaces (linking physical spaces through digital medium), mixed reality environments (blurring borders between physical and digital), ubiquitous compu2ng (embedding digital into physical environments) to hybridiza2on (that merging features into a mixed natural and digital environment). •  Real and virtual ‘spaces’ and ‘places’ – are these terms suﬃcient to describe a ‘hybrid ecosystem’?

Hybrid space and narra2ve self •  The everyday ac2vi2es of many networked individuals ﬂow and connect real world with virtual worlds. •  The extension beyond our real spaces towards virtual ones makes us distributed beings spa2ally and ac2vity‐based. •  Is a hybrid narra;ve one of our new way of being?

Favorite digital extensions in hybrid ecosystem Can we map our ac2vity ﬂow in hybrid ecosystem?

We hybridize places •  In the course of ac2on we hybridize places enabling for ourselves interac2on with the space using tangible, visible, audible, olfactory cues. •  We no2ce, use and signify meaningful dimensions of the space and make them into our places. •  We extend ourselves into the hybrid space, being part of our places through ac2vi2es, emo2ons and meanings.

What is a hybrid ecosystem? •  Hybrid Ecosystems deﬁne the system in which interac2ons take place among organisms and between organisms and other inanimate items in hybrid ecosystem. •  Hybrid ecosystems func2on as a result of our hybrid percep2on as a peculiar explora2ve strategy. •  Hybrid percep2on is not simply triggered by environmental en22es being processed by a perceiver. Rather it relies on the process of embodiment and extending the embodied in which previously embodied sensory‐motor ac2va2on paSerns are coupled with sensory‐motor ac2on poten2al triggered by the mutual interac2on of newly perceived environmental features and selected references conveyed by media.

Elabora2ng and collabora2ng Monitoring Muta2ng stories Loca2ve sensing Paths in Loca2ve sensing hybrid landscape

Visibility within hybrid ecosystems Monitoring the ecosystem is part of the ‘game’ Ecosystems are not closed to visitors and contributors

Standards: Monitoring mashed narra2ves is most popular

Ecosystems exist beyond geographical places

Hybrid narra2ves as digital graffi2? Hybrid graffi2 flows between the real place and the virtual narra2ve

Embedding self to the narra2ves

Shadow signatures as digital watermarks on narra2ves Some2mes narrator is a part of the picture as a shadow.

Places evoke personal stories Day two Day one Day three

Used by Geroli Reusing and muta2ng the content Reused by Auli Originally uploaded by Olga

Personal stories: comparing other pictures with own

Your memory ﬁlters stories

Your emo2on ﬁlters the story Smile and the world will smile back:) In Red Narra2ve, I tried to express my emo2ons visually (signs, leSers, places, abstract shapes). I chose red because this color is expression of hidden hyper feelings and thoughts (trying to come over the sickness, par2cipa2ng in diﬀerent events, avoiding the depressive moments, some failures in studies, errors in some situa2ons, organiza2ons, contrasts of emo2ons, lack of sun, winter, spring feelings, etc). This is a conceptual collec2on of “similar” photos labeled in “red”.

Image repositories as triggers of personal narra2ves How would you describe happiness?

Entangled dimensions as triggers Perceiving several dimensions simultaneously enables to tag loca2vely ac2vi2es, emo2ons and even these percep2ons that we cannot really transfer through virtual reality.

Playing with literary narra2ves From the legend Estonia is a country of legends. 'When you fly into Estonia, you go over Lake Ülemiste, which lies high up to the east of the city. The lake has an inhabitant, according to local myth – the 'Ülemiste Elder' (Ülemiste vanake), who by legend comes to the city gates every Thursday and asks 'Is Tallinn finished yet?' To which the residents answer, 'No, not yet' – if they answer 'yes', the figure would then flood the city.

Entangled dimensions in books

Collabora2on emerges without planning Places are powerful triggers Embedding feelings to places

Themes are followed Buildings and places are personiﬁed and loaded emo2onally

Collabora2on triggers: food

Collabora2on triggers: emo2ons

Collabora2on: ac2vity on the picture triggers curiosity

Dedica2ng content as a form of collabora2on Dedicated image

A tram narra2ve example Adding content to another story •  Yesterday I walked around and recorded some city sounds ‐ like tram and trolleybuses speaking out next stop names, voices on the streets and so on. Had an idea that maybe Geroli would like to enrich her tram narra2ve with a sound ﬁle as well. But of course I picked the wrong tram :)

Picking up themes

Map explora2on from the pool of narra2ves

Map as the trigger for narra2ves

Mapped stories: Narra2ve paths in the city Make your narra2ves sequen2al on the map by using My maps of the Google Map. Start a map and draw your path on the map. The Flickr images can be pulled as a new layer on top of your personal map and you can search only speciﬁc tags enrich your map.

Collabora2vely Love ac2vated city dimensions trees Let’s imagine that you wish to collaborate on the map. One person switches on one tag dimension and adds something on the collabora2ve map. Another collaborator may switch on totally diﬀerent tag and the images direct to make more adds on the map.

Stories as narra2ve dimensions The tag onto‐space of my stories Another way to look at the tag data at dendrogram shows also three clusters, so actually I WAS wri2ng three stories. I have wriSen three stories: ‘an ecology story’ is about my percep2ons related to theory of narra2ve ecology; ‘an invasion story’ is about natural world invading as ar2facts; and ‘ sustainable message story’ is about messages that are recycled on ar2facts.

Contact: Kai Pata kpata@tlu.ee blog: hSp://2hane.wordpress.com

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