Paige Saez’s QR Code book
Posted by: Lisa Radon on Oct 21, 2009 at 09:00AM
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QR Code book. Paige Saez. 2008. detail. image via flickr.com/photos/paigedestroy
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Paige Saez’s QR Code book project isn’t new perhaps (it dates to 2008), but I’m pretty wild about its use of whizzy technology in service of narrative abstract cartography.
Her book documents a series of almost secret public installations of QR code stickers (one would have to be familiar with QR codes to know what one was looking at on the wall of the bathroom of Vendetta, for example) and songs accessed by each QR code that for Saez have connection to place.
Documenting the project in book form adds an additional narrative layer missing from the first-hand experience of reading the code to trigger song and makes the whole project available to those of us who don’t have readers on our iPhones. Plus the photography is snapshotty beautiful.
This is Saez at her best, approaching the psychogeographic (perhaps better to call it sociogeographic) with her signature mix of poignancy and technological adventurism. She had previously explored similar terrain at on Platial with personal narrative maps of Portland.
I have to thank Amber Case (@caseorganic) who tweeted the link to Paige’s book yesterday.
super cool. thx for sharing.
Lisa what an honor to have been written about by you! Here I am reading your wonderful blog, trying to figure out why I haven’t chatted with you recently and there is an article about a project of mine! WOW. Thank you. I adored doing this project. It was really hard to figure out how to work in this space. How do we discuss the movement of memories from the physical/emotional to the digital/emotional? How do I mitigate the memory loss involved therein? QR Codes are such an easy way to do this kind of playful exploration. If I may be sold bold I would love to offer up a link to the full project description here on my website: http://paigesaez.org/projects/visual-mixtapes-qr-code/ and if people are extra keen on it they can purchase a copy of the book from Blurb here: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/216376
Thanks again Lisa for the post!
-paige
Hi Paige, it’s a great project. Thank you for the links, sorry they don’t actually work in the comments, but readers will get the idea. I didn’t know we could buy the book. Excellent. ::::: Really this shows the rich possibilities on the Venn diagram of the intersections between technology and the virtual, the physical world, and emotional/narrative content. – L
Hi Paige,
Cool Book. We love QR codes! Check out this McMinnville winery’s use of our QR code. http://www.rstuartandco.com It opens a really fun video we shot at the end of January in Seaside. The video is called “Chariots of Big Fire”
I am going to buy the book!
Jeff
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