Notes for Walking- full compile

This is a full video compile of all 13 notes of Notes for Walking, a mobile phone-based locative artwork app developed for Middle Head National Park and Mosman Art Gallery as part of the Sydney Festival, January 5-27, 2013. In Notes for Walking, thirteen short video notes were electronically tagged to locations within the abandoned Victorian era naval fort at Middle Head, asking audiences to explore the ruins and contemplate notions of waiting, time and impermanence as they walk, using their mobile phones. Notes for Walking was downloaded to over 2,700 mobile devices during January 2013, and attracted audiences of over 5,000 people to Middle Head and Mosman Gallery to experience the work. (Due to iPhone and iOS updates the project is no longer available in the AppStore).

Notes for Walking full compile – all 13 notes from Megan Heyward on Vimeo.

Notes for Walking overview

This prezi gives a background context & overview of Notes for Walking, discussing research, challenges of staging the work; implications for artists, cultural organisations etc re delivering location based, mobile & AR works. Key points only but provides a good summary.

Notes Prezi

Notes Prezi

Notes for Walking reprised – October 4-7, 2013

Notes for Walking will be staged again as part during the October long weekend, 4-7 October, 2013 as part of Mosman Art Gallery’s site specific program during the Navy’s International Fleet Review. Notes for Walking is a locative artwork developed for Middle Head National Park, in which thirteen short video ‘notes’ are electronically tagged to features of landscape at Middle Head, asking audiences to contemplate notions of waiting, time and impermanence as they walk. Notes for Walking was downloaded to over 2,700 mobile devices during January 2013 as part of the Sydney Festival, and attracted audiences of over 3,500 people to Middle Head to experience the work. During the October long weekend, several site specific works will be installed at Middle Head as part of the Festival of Mosman and the 100 year International Fleet Review celebrations.

Please download the Notes for Walking app on a wifi connection prior to visiting onsite. And due to Junaio channel maintenance, it will only be running as an iOS experience, for iPhone, iPad and iPodTouch during October. Android users will need to visit the site with a iOS friend! The other site specific works are not phone based- just come along!

To download the app click here. If visiting onsite please follow the user checklist.

Notes for Walking

Exploring Middle Head with Notes for Walking

Notes for Walking – artist session ISEA 2013

This is a link to the prezi for my Notes for Walking : media arts and augmented landscapes session at ISEA 2013 in June 2013 at the University of Sydney. Key points only where I am contextualising Notes for Walking and discussing challenges of staging it; implications for artists, cultural orgs etc re staging location based and AR works. Notes prezi here.

Over 1,400 Junaio channel users

I have just received figures for users of the Junaio Channel from developers MOB. There were 1460 unique users of the Notes for Walking Junaio channel between Jan 1 and Jan 31, 2013. These are likely to have been primarily Android users. Again, amazing news and numbers, which, combined with the iOS downloads, show that a lot of people were accessing the project during January. The total of the iOS downloads and Junaio figures comes to 2,737. And since people were observed to share devices onsite with visitors without devices, a conservative estimate would put the audience at 2,500 to 3,000 people. Wonderful news, and thanks for your support!

Over 1,200 iOS downloads

Thrilled to report that I received the final iTunes figures today up until Jan 27. The Notes for Walking app received over 1,200 downloads during the Festival- 1,227 to be exact. And with a steady stream of visitors onsite, many sharing devices in small groups, we estimate much higher audience numbers. This is wonderful & really quite amazing news.

Thanks very much to Sydney Festival, Mosman Art Gallery, UTS CMAI, National Parks & Wildlife Service, MOB, UTS FASS, UTS CPCE, and all of you who came to visit Middle Head & experience the work. Thank you very, very much!! And though the signs will come down this week, you can still experience the work either via the app or Junaio- it is still there, living in the ether, for at least a while yet. I will also be producing a version optimised for iPad, for international release, very soon i.e. the next 4 weeks. I will keep you posted here. Thanks again!!

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Notes for Walking at Middle Head, at The Cabin

 

We have just run out of WIFI onsite

We have just run out of WIFI onsite at Middle Head, as of Saturday Jan 26 at approx 2pm, ( actually I assisted the final app download so I know the timing) . I’m not sure that I will be able to arrange more data for tomorrow onsite, so PLEASE download the app beforehand, using the WIFI at Mosman Art Gallery or via your own WIFI at home. We had 6GB of data available onsite so that means there have been close to 100 downloads from The Gate at Middle Head.

Last weekend of Notes

This weekend, January 26 and 27 is the last official weekend of Notes for Walking ( the space in-between time) at Middle Head and Mosman Art Gallery. As of last Friday January 18 there had been over 900 downloads of the iOS app from iTunes- which is pretty good for a locative art app, so thank you! Will it hit 1,000- I hope so! There has been a steady stream of visitors out to Middle Head & to Mosman Art Gallery- I’ve run into a number of you myself. The onsite signage for Notes will come down after this weekend, but of course if you have either the iOS app or the Junaio channel you can still experience the work whenever you like, (as it is all there on your phone)…but minus the on-site signs. Remember when you visit, please come prepared for the heat- it gets very hot out there on the headland.

AR screen grab Notes for Walking

AR iPhone screen grab Notes for Walking, approaching The Cabin.

 

Notes for Walking user checklist

Bringing this to the top again- a handy user checklist.

1. Make sure your phone or device is fully charged before coming onsite.

2. iPhone/ iPod Touch/ iPad :- Download the Notes for Walking app PRIOR to coming onsite via a WIFI connection. App is 60MB in size so if you block larger apps you will need to unblock that.  Note AR mode ONLY works on phones.

3. Android:- Download Junaio & search for Notes for Walking channel. Favourite it so it’s easily found when onsite.

4. All Phone users- make sure GPS/ location services are enabled on your phone otherwise AR mode will not work & unexpected things may happen. App downloaders will be prompted to allow Notes for Walking to use location- say YES.

5. IOS users – iPhone, iPodTouch & iPad can check their app before coming- it should launch to the Home screen and show the 4 options (AR, MAP, List, Info). Select List view & press on a couple of the Notes ( labelled 1, 2, 3 up to 13) to check that video content is happily there. If it doesn’t load main screen, delete app & redownload.

6. Go to Middle Head & launch app at The Gate. Android users should launch Junaio at the gate & then search Junaio for the Notes for Walking channel (hopefully in your favourites). Pls note that each video note is approx 4MB in size so may incur data charges. There is WIFI available at The Gate- details onsite.

7. AR view can take a little while to load. Feel free to wave your phone around looking at the sky- yes, I said sky- the notes will float into view. Otherwise view via Map or List view if any AR delays.

8. The Junaio channel also has a list view to easily access the Notes onsite. They will come down via your phone provider so there is more delay than IOS users who have all video already downloaded to their device..

9. If your screen goes to white you probably do not have location services ON in your phone settings. If so enable Location settings & relaunch. Or restart device if really necessary- Power Down & Power Up. Resets everything & List view will be available again.

1o. If you are still having difficulties you can view all of the Notes posted simply as tiny mp4 video files via the Notes page here. Pls note each video note is approx 4MB in size so may incur data charges.

11. Wander the location, use List, Map &/ or AR mode to view the 13 Notes. Remember AR mode ONLY works on phones!