Intimate disavowal: turning away from technological media art

This paper describes a personal turn away from

technological media art towards modes of practice

that involve walking based interaction with the local

environment. However, rather than stressing areas

of difference, I consider points of unexpected

continuity. The key association hinges on a

common concern with dimensions of mediation.

Within this context, I argue for a broader

conception of mediation that is not restricted to

technological media, but that can also incorporate

our complex relation to aspects of lived immediacy.