Fearless Muses: Making Your Own Media

Streams of History
A crossmedia exhibition and web project that remixes a local walking tour guide and uses web 2.0 strategies to expand the number of voices and stories.  Labour, Work, and Working People: A Working Class and Labour History Walking Tour was printed in the 1990s.

Using the latest in digital technology, live streams tell tales of 20 DTES sites with enduring stories from Vancouver?s labour history. Mobile videographers present each site?s history and context, and reveal new relationships with contemporary players. Strikes, lockouts, evictions, immigration, state suspicion, attacks on working class movements, markers of a death… each site has a unique role to play in the story of the neighbourhood. New tools are being used to harness history and bring it forward with mobile devices, wireless networks, live screens and video mixers.

It?s often said that if we ignore our history we are doomed to repeat it. By recognizing and recording the stories of these 20 sites, residents connect themselves to sites and, in so doing, these under-represented stories from the past talk to the present.  The public is invited to interact with the installation throughout the month and add to the stories as our collective knowledge of DTES history deepens and is reinterpreted through a digital lens.

Saturday, Feb 7, 11am-1pm, Live Streaming event, remixed by Electrabelle and Brady Marks. Preceded by 10am Pancake Breakfast.
Friday, Feb 6, 7-8pm,  Meet and greet the artists.
Friday, Feb 20, 9am-5pm, Mini-conference hosted by Fearless City Mobile at UBC

Produced by the Fearless City Mobile crew in association with DTES Community Arts Network, W2 Community Media Arts Society, and Mobile Muse. Details: www.fearlesscity.ca