I find that my thoughts are gravitating more and more towards Germany. Our stay here is almost at an end. To a point where it is pertinent to start considering travel plans, and preparing to be in another country. My brain is less likely to flip back and forth as much between trying to remember the little Czech I know. Unfortunately that means that more and more I am answering questions in German by default.
Questions loom over our heads as we begin to think ahead to what we shall be doing in Berlin. I am beginning to research QR codes. One avenue is to try and have a small show with QR codes as stand-ins for actual pieces. The QR placeholders are squarish barcodes that you might notice on a FedEx package or UPS perhaps. With the right reader the info from the QR can direct an Internet enabled device like a cell phone to a website with our work. Video can be cumbersome to show, as it is very much dependent on tech. It maybe possible to stage an event with no art on the walls!
The second thought is a work around for my locative ideas. Since I do not have a 3G enabled phone at this point I must rely soley on WiFI but others may not have this problem. The comprimise could possibly be similar to the dead man’s chest of thumb drives I’ve been reading about. QR stickers could be placed strategically where others may find them. The QR code itself may act like a sign to those who are familiar. The access point to an audio message that will only be accessible by happening upon the code itself. Of course if you know the code or have the Internet address a head of time then it defeats the purpose of the discovering the location, but that just means I have to keep that info a secret. My ideas and thoughts now are growing to include more of just what that audio will pertain to. I am having a hard time wrapping my head around the geography of Berlin as I have never been there, I do not have a sense of where things are and their spatial relationship in terra firma. I am also curious about the history of this building we will be housed in. Lots of questions, not to mention the unfinished ones I have already stated. I read in Der Spiegel that there is a 3D version of Berlin on Google Earth.
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