the city is made abstract. streets are not visible.
we are travelling without maps.
only with our ears and a grid that shows us distances
from one place to another.
the people we are following are not drifting aimlessly in the city.
they are having their everyday day. they go to work. they go home. and inbetween to other places...

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A variety of individuals were interviewed in Brussels and in Helsinki about the thoughts and actions of their day : without censorship, from the mundane to the profound.

The places mentioned in the interviews were mapped in time & space onto a combined map of the two cities and then the map was made invisible, leaving just a grid ...

The user journeys through this combined city navigating by sound, connecting places and experiences together with lines (even with eyes closed), creating a psychogeographic route map.

A graphic image of the spatial & temporal relationships between places, feelings, people : connecting and diverging trajectories ..sweeping through the paths of memory…

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PASSenger
by
Mia Mäkelä

conceptual design
Mia Mäkelä, Pedro Soler, Orit Kruglanski

programming
Orit Kruglanski, Pedro Soler, Frederick Jamoulle

interviews & sounds
Mia Mäkelä

music
ONCE11

still images
Mia Mäkelä, Merianna Hulkkonen

videos
Mia Mäkelä

production
FIFTYFIFTY (Barcelona), MEDIA LAB/TAIK (Helsinki),
MAGIC MEDIA, (Brussels)

special thanks to
All the people who were interviewed
&
Yves Bernard, Neus Buira, Javier Cejas, Alexandra Dementieva, Tiina Huczkowski, Jonathan Mander, Nacho Platas, Minna Tarkka, Carles Vallve, Francine and Jean-Marc Wolter.

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