Welcome to Panopolis

Welcome to Panopolis takes the form of an imaginary travellers/tourist online guide that outlines a series of predictable and cliched experiences in what influential anthropologist Marc Auge, has labelled 'the non-places of supermodernity': spaces exemplified by airports, tourist areas, subways and spaces of transit. The work also enacts the self-consciousness of tourist discourses as outlined by many theorists in mobility studies. The website is divided into chapters typical of travel guides Sightseeing, Dining Out, Health & Safety etc The text humorously outlines 'typical' experiences in a semiotically pre-packaged world. The canned experiences outlined in the textual guide is offset by the idiosyncratic and contextually unknowable feeds of social media texts that feed into the website via 'notes' appended to various pieces of text in the guide, creating a world both familiar and strange. Gillian Fuller

Artist Statement
Welcome to Panopolis explores the im/possibility of uniqueness in digitally networked environments - places where almost everything we want to say is always, already being said by someone else. It uses geographically disparate pieces of data to create a virtual space with distinctive emergent qualities where readers can examine and reflect on the un/predictable, un/reliable nature of online information. By filtering and re-combining social media content, Welcome to Panopolis incites new textual and narrative possibilities.
Source of Artist Statement

Rodley, Chris

Burrell, Andrew

2013

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Networked new media installation

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