Walking in Barcodes: An A/r/tographic Inquiry of Place Through Time

The chapter embarks on a photographicPhotophotography walking practiceWalkwalking-practice prompted by the question: How far does one need to walk before they have moved? Drawing Drawingfrom a/r/tography as well as influences from the artsArt, barcodeBarcode-like artworks are composed from digital photos taken in hourly intervalsInterval across a period of five days. These barcodesBarcode function as visual codes, composed of photographic slices that represent the demarcation of movementMovemovement as situated in time and place. They visually imitate the way in which experiencesExperience of movements are nested within a larger stream of experience. As artArt objectsObjects, the ‘barcodesBarcode’ are not merely representational but become a code of its own, simultaneously in relation with the experienceExperience of its report as well as to the presentPresent moment in which it is experienced. Alongside the introduced practice, the notion of familiarity and artArt as a springboard to move from the mundaneMundane to the unfamiliar is considered to invite the rendering of the familiar as unfamiliar. In so doing, the author contemplates how the historically situated present might be seen differently and through which the beautiful in places forgotten or unsought for may be found.