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2008, MMW Festival, Vienna (AT) Media frenzy in 20 geo-tagged claims on Plocica Island (HR) According to Mexican law, the first person to discover a mineral deposit and mine it had the right to mine. The area that could be claimed by one person was limited to the area that could be mined by a single person or a small group, from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_claim 20 Artists stake their claims on an uninhabited island. The sites thus demarcated and the artistic projects that follow are linked by media transformation. The space of these geotagged claims, is a hybrid space, a media architecture that contains an explicit reference to the specific geographical location. The resulting media compositions become transformed bodies, the tagged location is their condition. The material found in a specific claim ( whether acoustic, visual, time-bodied, etc.), serves as the source material for linear or non-linear and/or algorithmic artistic works. Through this approach, one does not look for things that can be touched (gold, precious metal), but for objects that obtain their presence through the representation of their place. In this process, a geography of transformation is developed, a land survey through the creation of representatives. The map that emerges from this transformation is ambiguous; the idea of an exact mapping of a Euclidean space is replaced by a topology of interpretation. The existence of the island as a geographical place becomes dependent on its observer.
