Situations
Procedures, walks, serious games, creative non-fiction, and world-building challenges.
Microlocal
Climate adaptation procedure for small groups, developed in response to intense climate crisis grief during a walk in the 8th arrondissement, Paris during COP21.
Project page: Microlocal
Upcoming: Vector Festival workshop, Saturday, July 13th, 2024 –> START WHERE YOU ARE: USING WORLD-BUILDING TACTICS IN SERIOUS GAMES FOR CLIMATE CRISIS ADAPTATION
Venue:
Microlocal.ca (under construction)
Location:
City of Toronto, City of Hamilton, Picton (Prince Edward County)
Date:
2024
Detail
- The first Microlocal workshop is programmed for Saturday, July 13th, 2024 at InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto as part of Vector Festival. https://vectorfestival.org
- Materials: cameraphone, internet/data, Padlet, Unity
- Thank you: Carbon Neutral Commons
Friction Machine (2020-present)
Procedural interactive narrative games exploring choice and consequence in the workplace. Practice psychological safety, bystander intervention, and realistic optimism in tough situations.
An offshoot of my work at Toronto Metropolitan University’s IN.Lab on choice-based games for ethical decision-making in the workplace. Developed during the Feb Fatale game jam 2020 at Dames Making Games (DMG).
this watershed you’re in right now (in progress)
Toronto Arts Council Animating Historic Sites Grant Project. Research report on current practices in animating historic sites using creative interactive installations focused on augmented reality and sonic wayfinding. Includes a detailed concept for animating the Evergreen Brickworks using the theme of watercraft on the Don River. Images from the Toronto Archives.
Sound Walks (ongoing)
Curated walks for groups of strangers moving through public space, deliberately listening.
my beautiful commute (2012)
for the days I do not work from home
See: https://hilarymartincreative.com/situations/my-beautiful-commute/
Venue:
Tumblr
Location:
TTC, St. George to York University, Toronto
Date:
2012
Detail
- Year-long Tumblr blog, north/south daily images from downtown Toronto to York University. Before the subway past Downsview and before Instagram.
- Blackberry camera
- Installation: https://mybeautifulcommute.tumblr.com
- Duration: 365 days; one hour each way
Townsend: Designed with you in mind (2005)
Experimental narrationless documentary, sound map, and installation about a failed land planning initiative for Townsend, Ontario, a city that was never built, and the impact it had over a 30 year period on farming families in Haldiman-Norforlk County. Curated as part of Dubious Views: Questioning Institutional Representations in Tourism and Cartography, by Year 01 for Virtual Museum Canada. Collaboration with Laura Cunningham and Stefan A. Rose (photo credit).