Net+Derive

**Project Name:** Net Dérive (2006) **Project Credits:** Petra Gemeinboeck in collaboration with Atau Tanaka at Sony CSL Paris **Project Brief Description:** Net Dérive deployed mobile phones, and represented a kind of musical instrument, interpreting the city as an instrument. The concept of this work was inspired by the Situationist dérive, calling upon techniques from interactive music and applying it to a mobile context. It set up social interactions, supported by mobile phones and internet technologies, within a loose network of participants exploring an urban environment. From the paths taken and the experiences acquired, a collective narrative emerges which is fed back through audiovisual means to each participant and thus shapes their evolving collective experience. A collective narrative emerges as participants walk around the city-scape, they hear voice instructions that suggest paths to follow or turns to make.  **Relevant Web Addresses:** [|**http://www.impossiblegeographies.net/IG/ND.htm**] [|**http://www.impossiblegeographies.net/**] Technology [|**http://www.impossiblegeographies.net/IG/BD/tanaka-gemeinboeck_framework.pdf**] **Project Analysis** media type="custom" key="10662960"